The Chef At Momofuku Has Created A Bunch Of Delicious Recipes To Make Instant Ramen Less Depressing

If you’re a student then you’re probably spending your seemlessly never-ending summer holiday in one of three ways:

Holidaying overseas and uploading a thirsty amount of content to social media, parading everything great that you’re doing (I hate you, please don’t talk to me in our History of Sexuality tute).

Sleeping until 2pm, trying to sound awake when your parents call, avoiding the extreme heat emitted from your laptop after watching nine straight hours of Louie, and working on your very cheap and kind of disgusting home brew cider project.

Or, as a slave in one of the service industries. Working 27 days straight in the hopes that you might be able to save enough money to become Annoying Travel Person or to sustain a diet that isn’t just Mi Goreng, goon, and those “imperfect pick” vegetables.

Spend your holidays however you like, because when uni rolls around, festival season is done and you’re hit with a $500 bill for text books, we all become Broke Guy. Instant ramen is purchased en masse, you have to awkwardly heckle your mate for that “five dollars you borrowed” and your parents are often called in for Unicef-style drops of emergency vegetables (thanks mum and dad, I love you and I promise I’ll call more).

For the food lovers amongst us, the realisation that you are at least $20,000 in the hole and that the next 12 months will be spent eating primarily beige foods can all be a bit much. However, chef, owner of the Momofuku group and purveyor of yum David Chang has just released four video tutorials on how to make actual nice food using everyone’s simultaneous best friend and nemesis: instant ramen.

The recipes range from pretty simple; instant ramen seasoned omelette (aka the ramelet) to instant ramen gnocchi Parisienne – ooh la la!

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Watch them all in preparation for upcoming date night with that babe from your Advanced Media Issues lecture.