Nope. Bill was the closest, but you're all barking up the wrong tree.
Although they look like some kind of pasta (even more so in person), they are made from soy, not wheat, and are not intended to be boiled.
Instead, they are deep fried, then eaten as puffy, crispy snacks. The locals call them
churros, but they use the same word for Cheetos and other, similar snacks.
When they are deep fried, they go from being 1 3/4-inch-long "macaroni" that are almost impossible to break to 3 3/4-inch-long, puffs that are quite tasty.
Here is that exact same small handful from the earlier picture after they have been fried: