La Idler has alerted us to Singapore’s two newest attempts at greatness, involving towers of dumplings and the world’s largest balloon-hat festival.:

Someone bring out the bubbly! We are at it again — the Guinness World Records that is. Once again, we have defied impossibility and gravity by building the tallest tower of dumplings imaginable.

With some patience, and lots of sticky fingers, a whopping 14,038 dumplings were finally made.
The dumplings were then neatly stacked on a custom-made wooden structure.
The final tally beat the current Guiness World Record of 13,192 hands down.

Heh. I wouldn’t be surprised if the previous record were made by us, seeing that we love to beat records in the most trivial ways!