Making noodles 1

This is hot work - standing over an oven in tropical heat. The mixture is spread over a cloth membrane stretched over a giant wok. One (upside-down) fan keeps the fire going, another cools the cook. It takes a couple of minutes to cook the mixture to into a chewy, stretchy consistency which is then rolled up and stretched over a rectangular open-weave bamboo frame and put out in the open air to dry. There were two women working at this - one cooking and one rolling up and stretching. They worked in perfect synchronisation: by the time the second woman had finished stretching and set up a new frame, the cook had completed the next batch. I've no idea how many hours a day they did that - 10 minutes was long enough to watch it.