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" It&amp;#039;s 2 a.m. Do you know where your junk food is? No worries, Roy Choi does. Here&amp;#039;s little about Roy: He&amp;#039;s the L.A.-based chef who put Korean tacos on the map and made food trucks a legit phenomenon. He&amp;#039;s spent a lot of time awake when the rest of the world&amp;#039;s asleep\u2014so let&amp;#039;s just call him a late-night food expert and let him do the talking.  &amp;quot;You have a different appetite,&amp;quot; Roy says of eating after hours. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a more animalistic, instinctive appetite. Snacking is awesome because it&amp;#039;s almost like it doesn&amp;#039;t exist. It&amp;#039;s like your own personal Vegas.&amp;quot; Agree. He&amp;#039;s giving you his list of favorite things to eat pre-dawn, and has kindly shared a couple of recipes from his new book, L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food, on sale now. Pick up a copy, because you&amp;#039;re going to want to read every word in it, cook every recipe from it, and devour every bite you make.  1. Instant Ramen  &amp;quot;There are still a lot of people in this world who haven&amp;#039;t experienced the magic of instant ramen at 3 in the morning. It gets you through so many emotions. The steaminess of the broth, the stickiness of the noodles. The flavor is really powerful\u2014you don&amp;#039;t know if it&amp;#039;s seafood or beef or vegetable, but it doesn&amp;#039;t matter. Instant ramen is like a bong toke, it just fills your whole body with that MSG. Boom.&amp;quot; Perfect Instant Ramen You can have almost no money and still have enough to live off this stuff for weeks, months, years. Eat enough and you&amp;#039;ll start to look for ways to make it different: add a little more sauce, a little less sauce, cook the noodles less, cook them more, add more water, less water, add an egg, scramble the egg, etc. Me, I&amp;#039;ve become a freak when it comes to my instant ramen. Don&amp;#039;t fuck wit it, don&amp;#039;t fuck wit me, let me do my thing. This is how I do my own thing. Makes 1 perfect bowl 2 1/2 cups water 1 pack Shin Ramyun or whatever pack of instant ramen you have 1 egg 1/2 teaspoon butter 2 slices American cheese 1/4 teaspoon roasted sesame seeds Garnish (Optional):1/2 scallion, green part only, thinly sliced on a bias \u2014Bring the water to a boil in a small pot. Open the ramen package and add the noodles to the water. Cook the noodles for 2 minutes, then add the flavor pack. \u2014About 30 seconds before the noodles are done, turn off the heat and crack in the egg, but don&amp;#039;t mix it in. Just pull the hot noodles gently over the raw egg and let it sit for a minute to poach. \u2014Now get a bowl and gently pour everything slowly into it, being careful to not disrupt the egg. \u2014Add the butter, cheese, and sesame seeds to the bowl. Mix it all around. Garnish with the scallion if you have it. \u2014Eggy, cheesy goodness. Grilled cheese what? Excerpted from &amp;quot;L.A. SON: My Life, My City, My Food&amp;quot; by Roy Choi. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced without written permission from HarperCollinsPublishers. 2. Donuts  &amp;quot;When it&amp;#039;s late, you don&amp;#039;t want to think. You just want to gorge. Whatever the reason is that you&amp;#039;re up\u2014it could be depression, drunkenness, dreaming, trying to crystallize an idea\u2014it&amp;#039;s nice to have some hot, fried, sugary donuts and eat them until you can&amp;#039;t eat anymore. You feel terrible, you would never do it in your right mind, but you did it. That&amp;#039;s what&amp;#039;s awesome.&amp;quot; Ghetto Pillsbury Fried DoughnutsI love doughnuts, but I really love malasadas. And ever since I visited Hawaii, I got up on this game. One day, a friend of mine showed me how he did it growing up in Oahu: take a pack of the Pillsbury biscuits and fry them, then toss them in sugar. &amp;quot;DUDE!!!!!!&amp;quot; I said. Try it and you&amp;#039;ll see. You too will say, &amp;quot;DUDE!!!!!!!!!&amp;quot; and deplete your local grocery store of Pillsbury biscuit dough just to make these. Makes 8 doughnuts 1/2 cup sugar 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon 2 tablespoons roasted and crushed sesame seeds 1 tube Pillsbury original biscuit dough 4 cups Crisco shortening Mix the sugar, cinnamon, and sesame seeds in a medium-size bowl. Pop open the tube of dough and pull apart the biscuits\u2014they come preportioned, so this will be easy. In a big, heavy pot, heat the shortening over high heat; you&amp;#039;ll know it&amp;#039;s ready when a tiny piece of biscuit dough sizzles when added to the oil. Fry the biscuit dough until each piece becomes puffy and brown on all sides, about 2 minutes. Flip the pieces over and fry them for 2 minutes more. Pull out the doughnuts and rest them on paper towels for a minute or two, then toss them immediately in the sugar mixture. Repeat. Eat. Get bloated. Excerpted from &amp;quot;L.A. SON: My Life, My City, My Food&amp;quot; by Roy Choi. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced without written permission from HarperCollinsPublishers. 3. Milkshakes  &amp;quot;I love milkshakes. They&amp;#039;re so ooey and gooey. They&amp;#039;re just filled with joy. The great thing about milkshakes is that your mouth never has to leave the straw. If you&amp;#039;re drunk, you just insert and stay there on the straw until the  milkshake is gone.&amp;quot; 4. Ketchup Fried Rice  &amp;quot;Fry up the rice in a pan with some ketchup and add an egg. It can just be ketchup and rice without any other aromatics and it&amp;#039;s still so good. People who haven&amp;#039;t experienced that caramelized ketchup flavor don&amp;#039;t know what they&amp;#039;re missing. That sticky, cheap flavor keeps your feet on the ground, keeps you in that college dorm state of mind. In a way, it&amp;#039;s like the fountain of youth.&amp;quot; 5. Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dogs  &amp;quot;The L.A. dirty dog is quintessential late night food. The vendors don&amp;#039;t even set up until the clubs get out. It&amp;#039;s just a lady who already took care of her family, already put her children to sleep, already worked all day and night, then came out with a shopping cart and a sheet pan, stood on the corner and started slinging  hot dogs wrapped in bacon. You would never eat these during the day, you would never eat them in your normal life, but late at night, you&amp;#039;re lining up to eat them. Even if you&amp;#039;re the perfect church-going person, there&amp;#039;s still some part of you that can access a dirty dog. That should be the name of a sex position.&amp;quot;  6. Tacos  &amp;quot;Obviously  tacos. You&amp;#039;re standing, it&amp;#039;s always sloppy, always dripping. You stink afterward like raw onion. Even if your tacos are from Taco Bell\u2014that feeling of being in your car, opening sauce packets with the burrito in your lap, listening to music in the middle of the night. That&amp;#039;s a beautiful thing too, man.&amp;quot; 7. Chili  &amp;quot;You can douse it with hot sauce, put cheese over it, onions. Whether it&amp;#039;s from a can or get it from a fast-food place or you make it yourself,  chili is great because it&amp;#039;s a sludge. It&amp;#039;s like a re-up. It takes everything from the day before with it.&amp;quot; 8. Pizza  &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s nothing like a pizza slice when you&amp;#039;re drunk\u2014nothing. You have to walk with it, hold up , chomp away at it, let it burn the roof of your mouth.&amp;quot; 9. Cheeseburgers &amp;quot;The softness. The squishiness.  A burger is something you can never take away. Once you eat it, you&amp;#039;ve gone through it. It&amp;#039;s like sex. You might sleep with someone and regret it when you wake up, but you can&amp;#039;t take it back. That&amp;#039;s the late-night burger. You at least grin about it while it&amp;#039;s happening.&amp;quot; 10. Pho  &amp;quot; Pho is like a witch&amp;#039;s brew. It&amp;#039;s filled with things you may not even know, but you just gotta trust it. It&amp;#039;s a  whole meal in a bowl. The flavors in there\u2014beef bones and star anise and lime and hoisin and Sriracha\u2014it&amp;#039;s like someone took soup and put steroids in it. If you eat it, it might change your life. It makes you feel different when you&amp;#039;re done. If I&amp;#039;d never tried it before and someone told me pho did that, I&amp;#039;d be like, &amp;#039;Fuck, where&amp;#039;s the spoon?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Source: Bobby Fisher "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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