In this competitive society, it’s gotten to a point where things like eating is not based on what’s in it or how good it tastes, but how quickly it can be prepared and eaten. Instant food developed and spread almost as quickly as it takes to heat up a bowl of instant ramen. It’s cheap, it’s affordable, and arguably it doesn’t taste too horrific as well. Especially to college students this can be one of the only types of food we see on a busy week.
Recently over the last couple years, I’ve been trying to cut back on instant foods, especially on things like ramen that contain loads of MSG. Although it has been difficult, considering that I LOVE Korean ramen, it has definitely been rewarding for my physical health. Overall, I have been successful. However, just in the last couple weeks, I discovered the wonders of an instant food that blew my mind away – instant rice.
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햇반 (het-ban), a common brand of instant rice in Korea, comes in a small bowl-shaped container and is ready in just one and a half minutes. Sure, just plain white rice may not sound so amazing to some people, but if you’re like me who had to clean a pot of rice every day for every meal, the sound of rice being instant is heaven. In addition, the quality of the rice is something incomparable to the rice at DUC. The rice is perfectly moist and sticky and goes great with leftover Chinese.
It still intrigues me how the mechanism of the instant rice works. After taking the container out of the box, you peel a small amount of the seal back. Place it in the microwave for one and a half minutes and voila, instant rice!
