Is this the most compelling viral video of the year? Mesmerising clip of street food chef making noodles from scratch has the web hooked (and you won't be able to stop watching)
- Chinese street food chef makes it look effortless to cook noodles from scratch
- He rolls out the dough, folds it and then chops it up expertly to produce strands
- The clip has been watched more than 5 million times this year
There's no secret formula for what makes a video go viral but they are usually very funny or incredibly shocking.
But this mesmerising clip of a Chinese street food chef simply making spinach noodles by hand has the web hooked, despite its lack of drama.
The oddly compelling video, which has more than 5 million views, shows the cook rolling out dough with his hands, before folding it other several times.
He then chops it up with a chef's knife, to reveal beautifully long noodle strands.
The street food chef makes it look so easy to make spinach noodles but they are actually very tricky to make by hand
The chef makes it look so easy, but his skills in the kitchen are what have driven the web wild.
With what seems like little effort he transforms a large sheet of dough into hundreds of long noodles with just a few folds and cuts.
The video was filmed last year but has only gone viral this year, racking up 5 million views.
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The most mesmerising part of the video shows the chef chopping up the dough after he has folded it several times to form long noodle strands
More than 5 million people have watched the chef effortlessly make the noodles as the clip is oddly compelling
Viewers have been drawn in by the way the chef effortlessly rolls and folds the dough.
But the most mesmerising part comes at the end when the cook looks as if he is chopping the noodles into tiny pieces.
But when he pulls the dough apart, the chopping has formed long strands as the chef has folded the dough so many times.
Youtube users were fascinated by the clip.
One said: 'Best time spent ever, so cool and wonderful,' while another remarked: 'We need to have a Nobel prize for noodle making.'
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