Author: Asia Book of Records Team

Li Enhai, a Chinese chef has made the world’s longest noodle, measuring 2,852-km with one kg of flour, at the opening ceremony of a local hotel in Keshikten city of north China’s Inner Mongolia Region, on July 29, 2009.

Grace Galindez-Gupana, president of HalleluYAH Prophetic Global Foundation (Philippines), with the sponsorship of ABS Gen Herbs International Corporation, took 260 blood identification tests in 24 hours at the HalleluYAH Prayer Mountain for All Nations, in San Mateo, Rizal, the Philippines, on March 15, 2008.

Badre Muneer, a magazine established in 1996 and published in three different languages: English, Gujarati, and Arabic from Gujarat (India), had a total of 800 pages in the issue of the month of March (2011). The issue was published with two volumes, each consisting of 400 pages.

Min Bahadur Sherchan, (aged 76 years), of Nepal, is the oldest person in the world to have climbed the world’s highest mountain, on May 25, 2008. He beat the record set in 2007 by Japanese climber Katsusuke Yanagisawa, who scaled the peak at the age of 71.

Özden Gelinlik Moda Tasarim Ltd. (Turkey) designed a wedding dress that had a total of 45,024 crystals and exhibited it on January 29, 2011, at the Forum Istanbul Shopping Mall, in Istanbul, Turkey. The dress was completed in five days and was sold for 14,650 EUR (£12,900, US$ 21,000).

Hakan Gürbaşlar (Turkey) calculated the square roots of ten six digit numbers in 4 minutes and 55 seconds, on December 17, 2011, in Ankara, Turkey. All the results were correct to the 8 digits.

A 25 mm long model of a Mercedes Benz Smart car developed by Michihiro Hino, Tokyo, Japan, in 2002, is the smallest radio-controlled car in the world.

Y Lan (maiden name Tran Thi Hoang Lan), an artist from Chanh, Veitnam, has found out 88 natural shades of sand till August 2012 and uses these colors to create unique sand paintings based on themes like landscapes, logos, Religion etc. The self taught artist, teaches the disabled orphans to make sand paintings and also organizes exhibitions and auctions to raise funds for the handicapped.

Xie Qiyun (China) wore a dress weighing over 220 lbs with a bridal train measuring over 600 ft (200.8-meter) long and 3 meter wide, on the day of her wedding with Wu Zun (China), on October 15, 2007, at hotel in Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province.

Oil painter Mr. Wang Shuping (China), member of the Heilongjiang branch of the Chinese Artists Association, exhibited a coral themed painting measuring 17.82 m in length and 0.98 meters in height, in May 2010, in Daqing Petrochemical Company (China). Pacific coral theme depicts the original appearance of the seabed.