Learned something today

How to make bread using a hole in the ground. The lady at the 'China' shop has started her own little business making what they call bread. It is more like sweet buns as known in my region of the States. I buy some almost daily. Don't know why but I assumed that she had some form of traditional oven. Because the other day she mentioned that she needed fire wood to bake a batch of bread for the next day. So I asked her if the oven was at her house. She said no and pointed to a space under a tree in some mini-field across the way. I didn't get it at first and thought she was talking about some house down the way a bit. She mentioned that it was right under the tree. We went to the area and she showed me a hole in the ground about 2 ft. ( 66 cm ) deep and about a yard ( or a meter ) square. Covering it was a corrugated piece of sheet metal roofing. It is kind of a luau style cooking method. She woke up 5 in the morning, started a fire in the pit, got it all hot and placed a couple of pans of bread inside. It took about half an hour to bake. The buns are really pretty good and she is the only one in the village making them at the moment. It was a first for me to see that baking method. Just reminded of the old 'where there's a will, there's a way' saying.