Late-Night Asian Noodles

These bastardized noodles, a godsend for dorm cooks, emerge from somewhere between the college-town thai noodle shop and the corner bodega. Our Asian-influenced recipe combines chile-garlic paste with peanut butter and ramen noodles for an ethnically confused but surprisingly appetizing late-night snack.

What to buy: For the chile-garlic paste, we prefer the one made by Huy Fong Foods (with the rooster on the jar!).

Buy the precut coleslaw vegetable packs that are sold (without dressing) in the produce section of most supermarkets.

Game plan: Heat water to boiling by passing it through your automatic drip coffeemaker or heating it in a microwave or on a hot plate.

This recipe was featured as part of our story on dorm cooking.