They made do their first night with a battery-powered lantern and the gas burners they brought from the island.

"It's incorrect to assume that the only things you need to achieve wok hei are a wok and a gas burner," he said in a 2023 video.

She effortlessly blows glass baubles using a gas burner fixed to her desk.

Residents of such buildings rely on illegal electricity connections, gas burners and - when the country's rolling power blackouts hit - candles, all of which increase the risk of fires.

Residents cook in a first-floor communal kitchen with a single gas burner, and the communal toilet is in a makeshift metal shed.