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Disappearing noodles

July 18th, 2006 by Andrew Walker · Add a Comment

Maylee Thavat writes: “Making rice noodles – a rare sight in a Cambodian village. Typically one hour of pounding this rice and water mixture results in one kilo of rice noodles that can be sold for $0.25. Opportunity costs for labour intensive, on-farm noodle-making are high especially given the flood of industrially produced cheap and popular [...]

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