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Chinese in Costa Rica set record for fried rice

Members of Costa Rica's Chinese community celebrated the the arrival of the Year of the Snake by setting the world record Tuesday for the largest amount of fried rice ever cooked.

Chinese chefs unload the ingredients to cook the world´s largest fried rice in celebration of Chinese New Year, for which they obtained a Guinness record, in San Jose on February 12, 2013.

Briton Ralph Hannah, an inspector with the Guinness World Records, certified the win after putting the giant meal -- enough to feed some 7,000 people -- on a scale.

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