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Ingredients Note: this one is probably not easily repeatable - or at least, most food techs who are just interested in preparing a meal for consumption today won't go to the trouble of e.g. buying a package of tortillas and leaving them opened in the crisper drawer of the fridge for 2 weeks just to reproduce the condition of the torillas. I suppose a similar dish could be prepared using rice that hasn't been frozen, and fresh tortillas. Fortunately, Ghetto Kitches Labs maintains a substantial inventory of various specialized ingredients specifically for these types of experiments. Most of a quart of white rice - left over from an order of egg foo yung. It sat in the fidge until it froze. Nothing wrong with that, really, but it needed defrosting. Four whole wheat tortillas sat in the drawer in the bottom of the fridge in a torn package until the exposed part of each of the tortillas had gotten quite dried out and hard. A 7 ounce package of Starkist tuna olive o...

Ramen noodles in the microwave - a different microwave now, and the hotpot got left at the lab. Get some thinly sliced (shaved) chicken breast from the deli (the "buffalo chicken breast" is good). Put a good hand full of the chicken in the bowl. Drizzle some walnut oil over it, then add some of the powdered ginger, garlic powder, and chili sauce. Note that this chili sauce is different; it has a picture of a duck in flight instead of a chicken on the bottle, and it seems slightly sweeter. We will keep the bottle and compare the ingredients. Put some water in a cup (we're using a styrofoam coffee cup from the Citgo store). Put the cup of water in the microwave for about 3 minutes (this is a slow microwave) to get it hot. While the water is heating get a package of Top ramen noodles and - before opening it - lay it on the counter and hit it a few times to crush the noodle (not too hard, or the cello wrap will pop open, and the noodles will go everywhere except in...