Gettin Mah Poor On

Eating like a REAL college student. Yes.

Being lazy and unemployed, I'm poor as ever and it hurts! My left ass pocket has a sort of.. empty feeling to it... Almost literally.
A while back I came up with an idea while I was in the shower. I do all my thinking in the shower (and occasionally while I'm pooping). I once saw a video where a guy said that our generation with all of our technology and whatnot, don't ever sit down and think deeply anymore. But fear not! That's what my late-arrival-inducing-long-showers are for. Did that just make any sense? I'm just always late to things.. Well.. That, and my infamous long turd sessions. Well whatever, back on topic.
So I was taking a shower and I decided to remake something that I had eaten a long time ago. It was like instant noodles, except you pour out the water after cooking it and then pour the powder onto the bare naked noodles. It was some instant yakisoba dish from the local asian supermarket. It was actually really good, so I figured, what if I just make top ramen (worth what.. a quarter?) and pour out the water and then pour the powder onto the noodles just like how I did with the yakisoba thing? The idea lingered in the back of my head for a year or two until about a month ago.
My friends and I were chilling in the library one day at school and one of my friends was telling my other friend that she looked vietnamese (even though she was filipino). Upon hearing him, I turned and said, "WHAT? Okay, what about me. What do I look like?" I don't rememberwhat he said, but his guesses consisted of pretty much every asian ethnicity other than my own: chinese and filipino... I don't recall exactly what he said after that but I was eating a sandwich at the time and he said something along the lines of, "PSH, whatever, go back and eat your noodle sandwich." Obviously I was just eating a regular ole salami sandwich, but I guess that was his poor attempt at a playful jab of a racist comment. Afterwards, my friend and I were discussing what an actual noodle sandwich would be like and she laughed at the thought of it. But then I told her, "I'm gonna go home and make a noodle and you're gonna be jealous!" I was only half joking at the time, but when you're bored and hungry at home, what else are you supposed to do? And so I did just that.
I managed to find a Pancit Canton in my cabinet which is supposed to be like a filipino chow mein which is made the same way as that yakisoba I had years ago! So I made the noodles and tossed them into the heels of some wheat bread and it came out like this:

It was actually pretty good! I'm no food critic because I like almost everything, but here's what my first impression was like. The noodles were originally designed to be eaten alone and not within the bread surrounding it. Since bread and rice is usually used to balance out with other foods, the "dryness" of the bread actually took a lot from the original flavor from the noodles. I'm an absolute salt lover too. Had the bread been covered in butter, or if it was maybe garlic bread, or if the noodles were simply saltier, it would have tasted much better. I mean, don't get me wrong, it still tasted great, especially for my first try, but I saw a lot of room for improvement.

A week or two later I decided to take a second shot at it, except using the idea that came to mind in the shower. I made top ramen, except I only put in a dab of the powder so the noodles would at least soak up a little flavor. After that, I poured out all the water and poured the rest of the powder onto the noodles and mixed it inside the pot. It was a little more than the Pancit Canton so I tried my best to keep it all in one piece. It turned out like this:

Since there were more noodles, it was a little more difficult to eat, but really, it just makes it that much more fun to eat! Okay so this time it was the opposite of my first attempt. Top Ramen is meant to be eaten inside broth. So really, all that powder is supposed to go into the water, while the noodles only soak up a little bit of it. But when all that powder goes onto the noodles, it made it extremely overwhelming. Especially when I was trying to eat the excess noodles hanging off the side. The bread did a decent job balancing out the saltiness, but it was still really powerful. For me I loved it, because I loved salty foods, but for the average person, it was way too much. 

On a third try, I poured about half the packet onto the noodles, and I have to say, it tasted amazing. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture, but the only thing different about it was that I used actual normal pieces of bread. For now that will be my staple recipe until I find more or better ways to make it. Or even things to add to it. I was so excited making these sandwiches, afterwards, I wanted to give it a name like the Jose Sandwich or something, much better than that terrible name. Unfortunately, after a quick google search, I found out that there's already noodles sandwiches. Especially in Japan. Apparently Yakisoba Pan (a japanese noodle sandwich), is the equivalent to a good ole hot dog over here in the states. Oh well, it was a fun and silly experience. Mainly because I have absolutely NO knowledge of cooking whatsoever. Any full course gourmet dinner you request from me is coming straight from the microwave.

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Recently on a trip to Marina Food I walked through what I consider to be the best isle in the entire store. The instant noodle isle. The number of different types of instant noodles they have packed in there is beyond amazing. I decided to pick up some random ones that caught my eye!

On the left we have some random seafood bowl which was actually my favorite of the four. Simply because of how salty it was. I actually had a couple canker sores in my mouth at the time. It was so spicy and salty, and the stinging and burning of the sores were so great that I thought my mouth was going to explode. But it was just THAT delicious. At some point, I think the sores were numbed to some extent from the excessive pain. Was that just because it hurt so bad? Or because it was so spicy? Or was it because eating spicy foods sometimes releases endorphins? According to wikipedia:

"The term endorphin rush has been adopted in popular speech to refer to feelings of exhilaration brought on by pain, danger, or other forms of stress,^[2] supposedly due to the influence of endorphins. When a nerve impulse reaches the spinal cord, endorphins are released which prevent nerve cells from releasing more pain signals. Immediately after injury, endorphins allow animals to feel a sense of power and control over themselves that allows them to persist with activity for an extended time.^{[citation needed]"}

Seems like a longshot, but hey, you never know! By the time I was swallowing all the broth, I felt invincible.

ANYWAYYYSSS. On the top and bottom of the picture we have Kung Fu. Really it was just any other kind of Top Ramen, except the name is just awesome. It actually came with a packet of oil along with the powder. Usually when my instant noodles comes with oil, I exclude it since its just.. bad for you. But I wanted the full Kung Fu experience so I just had to put it in. And to be honest, it made it taste THAT much better. I guess when it comes to food, the worse it is, the better.

On the right is instant Pho. How cool is that?! I swear it literally smelled like pho, and the broth tasted pretty accurate too! And it was like the mint leaves were ACTUALLY in there too! You could also kinda smell them! The noodles were a little lacking, but overall it was great.