ฺBANGKOK, Thailand — Above the din of children playing, tourists chatting and dogs barking, a muffled clang echoes through the alleyways. It’s 70-year-old Pranee Sutdis who, as she has for most the last 58 years, is hammering steel into bowls with a small mallet.
“It used to be that every house did this all day, and you would wake up to endless ‘ping, ping, ping.’ Now, there are only a few and it’s not so noisy,” she says.