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Spicy Auto Fish Noodle Soup Recipe

Spicy Auto Fish Noodle Soup

This recipe is for one of a variet of newer dishes that fall into a a category we are calling 'autofoud'.

A common characteristic of all items which are dubbed 'autofoud' (or: 'auto-food') is simply that they are food items prepared and served by restaurants or fast-food places /which are used as ingredients in other, consumer-prepared foods. For example, the fish in this recipe is an autofoud, and hence is called 'autofish' (or: auto-fish)

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 ten piece auto-fish dinner from [Cap'n D's] (approx 5 pcs auto-fish)
  • 1/2 side order of auto-hush puppies [same as above]
  • approx 2 dozen little plastic packages of malt vinegar (bottled malt vinegar may be substituted)
  • 1 package [Top] ramen noodles (N.I.N.A. - Nissin Is Not Autofoud)
  • soy sauce (to taste)
  • North Korean Chinese Regular Hot Chili Sauce [see:Cock Sauce:Walmart]
  • Water (approx 0.35 liter)
Required Equipment:
  • chopsticks
  • bowl
  • microwave oven
  • refrigerator
Preparation:
  1. Get the stuff
  2. Eat 1.5 auto-hush puppies and 2 or 3 pieces of the auto-fish while it's all still steamy hot from the drive-thru, with liberal use of the malt vinegar over alL (this step is important to keep you from getting too hungry or perhap even starving duing preparation, which will typically take at least four or five hours)
  3. Leaving the remaining autofoud in it's white styrofoam bounding box, place the box in a (working) refrigerator for about 8 hours, until cold.
  4. Rediscover the box of autofoud in the fridge.
  5. [Eat the remaing 0.5 auto-hush puppie - this step is optional and may be performed out of order]
  6. Crush/crumble the package of [Top(tm) brand from Nissin Corp] ramen noodles into a deep glass bowl (Pyrex is good, this is going to get hot - if Pyrex is not available, ceramic dishes also work well; we recommend you avoid plastic cookware in the microwave - or in general, for that matter - nasty stuff, plastic, except maybe the kind McD's serves - expensive, too); add water (don't quite cover the noodles), and microwave on high for 3 minutes or until the water is steaming; stir w/ chopstick
  7. Break up the pieces of fish into the bowl of [now steaming - be careful] noodles; stir w/ chopstick;
  8. Add the seasonings to the bowl of what has now become soup:
    1. a dash of malt vinegar
    2. hot chili sauce (squeeze the bottle until it feels right)
    3. soy sauce (add last)
  9. Stir w/ chopstick
  10. Enjoy
Tips and Suggestions:
  • if you like the small, salt-water crustaceans called 'shrimp', you could substitute auto-shrimp for the auto-fish in this recipe
  • Other flavors of Vinegar may be chosen to complement the rice vinegar in the soy sauce.
  • Eat with chopsticks, drink the broth from the bowl
  • Reeses Peanut Butter Cup for desert
  • For a beverage, we suggest that tea (as you like it) or a chilled mixture of sugar-water and lime juice goes well with this dish.
  • ramen noodles are done when they turn whitish and have a consistency about halfway between cruchy and mushy
  • throw away the 'flavor sachet' that comes in the ramen noodle package; it contains extreme (in a human context) levels of sodium and may be dangerous to consume; also, it covers the taste of the other ingredients if used; note that it needs to be disposed of properly - the only animals that will eat the stuff seem to be rats and roaches, and flavor packet contents are widely believed by the earthside community to be extremely toxic, and a move is afoot to give the dry, volatile powder a "controlled substance" status within The Realm until and unless certain prepared food manufacturers quit putting these things in the noodle packages; the stuff is just too hazardous to have lying about, and should have warning label
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