Photo courtesy: Sorsogon Provincial Information Office
Sorsogon has set a new Guinness World Record for creating the world’s largest pili nut brittle (praline), shining a spotlight on the province’s rich culture and local industry during the Kasanggayahan Festival 2025.
A total of 260 volunteers, including mothers, students, home cooks, and workers from local “pasalubong” centers, spent nearly five hours inside the Sorsogon provincial gymnasium to preparing the massive delicacy.
The finished brittle measured 144.16 square meters, roughly one-third the size of a basketball court, and used 1,430 kilograms of pili nuts supplied by local farmers.
Governor Edwin Hamor said the achievement cements Sorsogon’s reputation as the “Pili Capital of the World.”
The Department of Agriculture reports that the Bicol region accounts for approximately 90 percent of the country’s pili nut production, with over 13,000 farmers cultivating the crop across 142,405 hectares.
Bicol pili products are also exported to the United States, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea.
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