If there are those who have invented the smallest restaurant in the world with only a table for two (Solo per Due, near Rome) or with ephemeral solutions of a few days for couples (Xacobeo in Vigo), quite the opposite of a peaceful restaurant It has also been speculated by others.
In this case, the idea of โโone of the largest restaurants for real masses overflowing is in the overpopulated country of China, which has almost 1.5 billion inhabitants.
It couldnโt be any other way: this country where they are used to being hundreds and the mother has also devised the restaurant less intimate of history, which houses no more and no less than 800 tables and can accommodate up to 5,800 seats at a time.
This establishment is so impressive that the number of diners it can absorb has earned the restaurant a Guiness World Records as the largest restaurant in hot pot of the world.
That is, they serve, by tons, the traditional chinese food cooked with meat, leafy vegetables, mushrooms, wontons, egg dumplings and various seafood.
Although many tear their clothes and believe that even guests would not go there, this restaurant is full every summer. Hundreds of buses and private vehicles arrive up to its slopes, transporting diners in a very organized manner.
Chongqing Loquat Garden is the largest hotpot restaurant in China.๐๐๐
More than 800 dining tables can accommodate 10,000 customers and are full every day in summer. pic.twitter.com/IcGSw6JE48โ Sharing Travel (@TripInChina) August 27, 2023
These are divided into enclosures, divided by loquat gardens, fountains with waterfalls, fanalillos and lights. No detail escapes the organization of this daily event only suitable for very sociable people.
Founded in 1995, the restaurant is called Pipa Yan, located in the southwest of the country, and is so large that it occupies the side of a mountain. Now, it is not the largest in the world (it is the second), but it is in its specialty, the hot pot.
The Guinness World Records awards the distinction of the largest restaurant to Bawabet Dimashq, a business located in DamascusSyria, and which at least in 2008 had no more and no less than 6,014 seats.
So great is the outrage that the BBC calculated at that time that its kitchen measured 2,500 m2 and its dining room 54,000, which required a staff of 1,800 people in summer.
Although the Guinness World Records is a particularly popular judge and its technicians are supposed to value that all the tables in the restaurant are well attended, the truth is that there are those who differs from your calculations about the Yuan Pipe.
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An official website indicates that the restaurant has about 700 tables and the publication Sharing Travel assures that the Chonging Loquat Garden restaurant exceeds 800 and can serve 10,000 clients. Others speak of 7,200 diners and 900 tables.
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