Taco Salad - Korean Apartment Style

1. Pour purchased filtered water into bowl. Microwave till hot.
2. Shake in some dehydrated refried beans, which in a previous life, schlepped around the Rockies in some kid’s rented backpack. Stir with spoon because this morning was rushed and fork is dirty.
3. Tear up a slice of processed cheese (just one—the pack of 14 cost $5*)
4. Using Swiss Army knife, cut up a tomato on the little styrofoam tray from the bananas. Put the stem in the compost bag in the freezer.
5. Top with Bugles—corn chips are $5/bag, and tortillas don’t exist.
6. Decide against adding canned corn…it would be valuable to save it for another meal, and there’s nowhere to put the leftovers anyway.
7. Rinse off Swiss Army knife and styrofoam to allow slicing of wicked-sale kiwi for dessert.
8. Sit on sweaty plastic couch & enjoy!
   
   *when I say $5, what I mean is 5,000 won. They’re not exactly equivalent (it’s about 1000 won:80 cents), but dropping 3 zeroes is a handy, and common, way of getting a sense of what you’re spending.