World's largest Chinese Spring Roll -
Fundraising for Tsunami Victims
NEW
YORK, UNITED STATES - The world's largest Chinese spring roll
is now 434.36 feet long and was wrapped on April 30th in Cornell
University. The previous record holder was 160 feet. The spring
roll took eighty students and teachers one hour and forty-one
minutes to make. It used over one thousand kilos of vegetables
and flour-wraps donated by local super markets. Thanks to
the generous Cornell professors for matching the funds raised,
the total donations to Tzu Chi's Tsunami Relief Fund generated
by the world's largest spring roll was twenty-five thousand
US dollars.
Howard
Ho is the man responsible for this project. He is a senior
attending Cornell University's renowned School of Hotel Administration.
He is also the son of Tzu Chi's Canada Chapter director.
Howard found out in January that the School
of Hotel Administration was responsible for the world's longest
spaghetti in 1995. It inspired Howard to make the world's
longest spring roll to raise funds for the victims of Southeast
Asia Tsunami.
After two months of planning, Howard's
vision finally came true. Tzu Chi volunteers in New York also
came to help. They took the opportunity to introduce Tzu Chi
while making a variety of desserts including traditional Chinese
desserts not often seen in the US.
Many students in Ivy League schools such
as Cornell University become prominent members of the society.
It is a reassuring sign that in addition to academic excellence,
their hearts can also remain compassionate to those suffering
half a world away.
