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Glass noodles simmered in a spicy pork sauce until they drink up every drop. Twenty minutes, one wok.

Fried rice built on sambal and kecap manis, topped with a crispy-edged fried egg. Fifteen minutes.

Seared chicken over rice with cucumber, herbs and a puddle of nuoc cham poured over everything.

Egg noodles tossed in garlic butter, oyster sauce and fish sauce, with parmesan over the top. Fifteen minutes.

Sharp, sour kimchi cutting through a molten cheese toastie. Fifteen minutes and one frying pan.

Jammy soft-boiled eggs sitting in sweet soy with garlic, chilli and sesame. Ten minutes of work, then patience.

A rice sandwich: nori wrapped around rice and tuna kewpie, then cut straight through the middle.

Mushrooms fried hard and finished with miso butter, piled onto sourdough. Fifteen minutes, deeply savoury.

Rice triangles pressed by hand and griddled until the outside goes crunchy and soy-lacquered.

Salmon roasted in soy and mirin, flaked over hot rice with furikake and kewpie. One tray, under twenty minutes.

A slab of soy-glazed Spam on pressed rice, wrapped in nori. Cheap, salty and completely addictive.

Cubes of raw salmon in soy and sesame over warm rice, with cucumber, avocado and plenty of kewpie.

A panko pork cutlet with tonkatsu sauce and shredded cabbage, pressed between soft white bread.

The convenience-store egg sandwich: pillowy crustless white bread packed with kewpie egg salad.

A thin, lacy-edged smash patty with kewpie, sriracha and shredded iceberg. Fifteen minutes, one pan.

Hot rice, a runny fried egg, soy and sesame oil, stirred together. Korea's answer to two-minute noodles.

Chilled silken tofu under chilli crisp, soy and spring onion. No cooking at all, five minutes flat.

Bruised cucumber that drinks up black vinegar, garlic and chilli crisp. Ten minutes, and most of it is waiting.

Hot rice, a runny fried egg and a heaped spoon of chilli crisp. The lowest-effort good dinner there is.

Two crispy-edged fried eggs on buttered toast, drowned in chilli crisp and spring onion. Eight minutes, no thinking.