The Japanese love of rice crackers has reached epic proportions after a new world record was set.
A team of Japanese rice cracker chefs celebrated a record result for a baked rice cracker. The massive snack took 15kg of powdered rice flour to form, a day to produce and started off at a whopping 180cm diameter before it was placed in a grid over a charcoal fire.
Fanning the hot coals, the chefs regularly oiled and turned the giant cracker which gradually shrank, but remained intact at a substantial 160cm across. The attempt took place in the town of Inzai Kioroshi near Tokyo, apparently famous for its cracker production.
The team, named The World's Largest Rice Cracker Committee, were delighted with the result, having failed to set the record by just three centimetres just one month previously. Once the cracker had been measured for the record, it was broken up and distributed to waiting journalists, chefs and residents.
How did it taste? "Kind of hard but eatable" admitted chef Michihiro Yamaguchi.