For those of you that cook, how many persons can you cook for at one single time? Here’s an interesting photos featuring a gigantic pot of soup that is enough to feed 40,000 people!

“Imoni,” a Tohoku region soup specialty made mainly with taro and meat, is cooked in a huge pot that measures six meters in diameter during Japan’s largest “Imoni-kai Festival” on a riverbed in Yamagata, on Sunday, Sept. 6. The dish, using three tons of taro, 1.2 tons of Yamagata Beef, 3,500 slices of konnyaku (solidified jelly made from the rhizome of konjac) and other local ingredients, was made for about 40,000 servings at the festival this year. The event has been held annually since 1989. (Mainichi)

Source: Mainichi Photo Journal

I wonder what would happen if one of the cooks accidentally fell into the pot >_<”