It took 168 teachers and 100 students from different public schools in the city nearly two days to make the delicacy. They grated 13,500 coconuts and mixed the coconut milk with 60 sacks of sugar and 61 sacks of rice flour, among others.They expected to feed more than 500 people.
"We are trying to emphasize that we Mandauehanons are the authority when it comes to bibingka making," said Clark Pelaez, overall chairman of the Biggest Bibingka 2011.
As the workers brought in baking trays and assembled the bibingka in the center of a basketball court (lined with a clean sheet for the occasion), those who couldn’t be at the gym discussed the record-setting attempt in sites like Twitter.
"Higanteng bibingka, inihain sa Mandaue City (Giant bibingka served in Mandaue City)," reported the ABS-CBN news program "Bandila." Among the responses: "Wow! That bibingka is so gigantic, ha! I like. So proud of my fellow Mandauehanons."
When it was done, the bibingka sat three inches thick and stretched approximately 180 square meters.
Poor weather delayed the preparations, but the crowd waited and the organizers and bakers pulled it off.
"Lahi ra gyud ang bibingka diri sa Mandaue kay sa uban (Our bibingka in Mandaue is special)," Neil Heyrosa, one of the residents who came, said.
Christine Mayol-Cortes, who belongs to the sixth generation of a clan of bibingka masters, supervised the baking process.
Organizers of the event included the City Tourism Office, Department of Education, Taga Mandaue Corp. and the Mandaue City Government. Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes and other local officials joined the event’s participants, who were entertained by a band while watching the bibingka come together, a tray at a time.
"Mandaue City is known for being an industrious city, and we are just showing another aspect of what Mandauehanons are," Pelaez said.
By Emerald Lace Reynes
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