The 875kg cake was made in Nha Trang City by 20 people and needed 100 people to lift it into cylindrical cooker.

The cake required 450kg of rice, 140kg of pork, 600 bananas, 500kg of banana leaf, tens of kg of other ingredients, and eight cubic metres (eight tonnes) of water.

Chefs chose to use ingredients from various regions rather than follow the traditional recipe. They cooked it on February 20 and it was served to local people and tourists to raise money for a hotel charity on February 21.

Their cake broke the record set last year by the Yasaka-Saigon-Nhatrang Hotel, which served up a 39m long cake. The hotels have been engaged in a friendly competition for charity for the past 12 years.

At the Yasaka-Huong Sen in Tuy Hoa City Hotel, in Phu Yen Province, chefs made an 18m long Tet cake. It took five hours for the hotel's chefs to prepare the cake, which took 12 hours to cook. It was made with peanuts, bananas, green beans, gac fruit and black sticky rice.

The Tet cake is a traditional item served in the south over the Lunar New Year. In the north, the holiday staple is the Chung cake. 

40m Tet cake

100 people lift the cake

Bringing the cake to the cooker

Making an 18m-long Tet cake

Tran Quang Nhat, vice chairman of Phu Yen Province People's Committee helps cut the cake

(three from the left)

A tasty mix of traditional flavours