Remember those dorm days when you practically lived on ramen?

What is the best recipe you have ever had based on instant ramen packs?

There are a zillion recipes on the internet now and some of them are really creative.

Its gotta be something you tried as an experiment and it turned out better than you expected.

I had duck sauce in pork ramen once that was really good.

I threw some leftover hot dog chili in beef ramen once that turned out so good I had it that way for a few days straight. adding different peppers and hot sauces to it for variety.

Had an extreme raman fail trying to put malt beer in shrimp ramen but we really don't need to bring that up again now, do we?

Ha. Earlier tonight I got an email from Pinterest about "boards you might like," and one of them was "Office Humor." I was browsing through it and saw one that said something about "I went to check my balance at the ATM, and it gave me a coupon for free ramen noodles."

I haven't eaten the stuff in years, but decades ago, I probably consumed more ramen than was healthy. I had some freeze-dried scrambled eggs and other "survival" foods (sausage crumbles, etc.) and any of that stuff would go into the ramen.
I don't know if you can call it a "recipe" if you're just throwing stuff into the container like some crazed alchemist. (This would be a good place for one of those "stirring the pot" smilies.)

One of those great ideas that didn't work out as well as was originally thought, eh?
That kinda reminds me of Revenge of the Nerds, where the Nerds are watching the CCTV feed from the girls' dorm, and one of them is pouring beer on cereal.

I remember when microwave oves just hit the dorms.
Everyone was making teas and coffees and stuff
I went and bought a steak and argued with the guys that you can cook a steak in a microwave, even put money on it.

Sure enough I cooked it.
But, before anyone would pony up their money, they wanted to see me eat it.
So I took a bite...um, it was cooked.
Got my money and covered it in ketchup and ate it.
We were laughing so hard at the faces I was making!

I once sprinkled the pork ramen packet on a pork steak and cooked it in the mic. It was better than the plain steak. LOL

The steak episode comes under the heading of "culinary arts." NOT.

Microwave ovens are probably more useful--and maybe safer--for dorm use than the old hot plates that once were common in low-budget lodging, but . . .

It just occurred to me that I learned about ramen during my Air Force days. Some of the guys I worked with at my first duty station in upstate NY had previously been stationed in Thailand, and at least two of them had Thai wives. The wives often got together to chat and cook, and boy could they cook.
They could make much better dishes out of a simple package of ramen, which I think they called "yumyum." I think it's like the old stories about the stranger who comes into a village and shows the locals how to make "stone soup." If you toss enough other ingredients in, and maybe save the seasoning packet for another project, it's not just nasty old ramen anymore.

My dad was born in 1912. He used to tell me about the thread-bare thirty's.
I remember I was watching cartoons and saw one where they were boiling a shoe to make boot stew.
I asked him about it.
He told me that most boots were made of leather back then and it would flavor the stew of anything you could find to add to it.
So, I laughed and joked about it.

Technically, ramen is old boot stew (it even tasted like it sometimes).

Yeah, and you have to break up the laces (that bundle of dried noodles) when preparing it.

I eat the Indomee brand.

However, when I am feeling fancy, I will make a ramen salad using the oriental flavored ramen from Nissan and some salad greens and dressing made. I'll have to find y'all the recipe.

I make Chinese chicken salad from ramen noodles, easy to make and whenever I serve it there's none leftover, you can Google it for recipe different variations but the one I do had sugar, cider vinegar the seasoning packets I use canned chicken breast meat, oil, and I add sesame oil .

i don't mind sauteing vegetables.