How to cook meals using only everyday office equipment

Chinese YouTuber Ms Yeah has brought new meaning to the phrase ‘work meals’. Using various office supplies, she shows how to cook masterpieces for her colleagues.

China’s latest internet star isn’t your regular, run-of-the-pepper-mill celebrity chef or food blogger. Based in Chengdu, China, Ms Yeah transforms ordinary office supplies into a kitchen, and her videos of al desko culinary creations like Chinese hamburgers, pancakes and fried fish have gone viral.

Ms Yeah says she came up with the idea while she was ironing one day, and wondered if she could use the iron to grill beef. Just for fun, she uploaded the video online, but didn't start thinking seriously about making more videos until she saw how much people seemed to like her videos.

All the videos are shot during work hours in her creative agency office, says Ms Yeah. With the help of her colleagues, she now spends days writing, filming, and editing her videos. After less than a year online, she has millions of viewers and fans across the world, all waiting to see what creative concoctions she will come up with next.

Watch the video to see more. Needless to say, we don’t recommend you try this at home, or at work.

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