Woman makes incredible meals using only random office equipment

She deserves 10/10 for creativity.
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Yvette Tan
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This probably isn't what they had in mind when they said the office equipment was multi-functional.

From frying pancakes on her CPU, to eating hotpot from a water dispenser, one Chinese woman is cooking up a storm -- using just the stuff found around her office.

Nicknamed "Office Little Ye", the woman's videos have gone viral on Chinese social media platform Weibo, with some of her videos scoring almost 20 million views.

She uploads a new "cooking episode" once every few weeks, and some of her videos are also available on YouTube.

Here she is making crepe-like pancakes on her office CPU while her co-workers look on nonchalantly:

And casually making popcorn in a soda can, as you do.

And if popcorn's not elaborate enough for you, here she is using a water dispenser to cook hotpot.

Oh, and she also handmakes her own noodles.

"Office Little Ye", who according to her profile hails from the Chinese city of Chengdu, has almost half a million followers on Weibo.

"You are truly talented. Though I am curious as to why your boss allows you to do this," said one netizen on Weibo.

"Do you bribe your boss with food so that he lets you do this?" another asked.

"I was just wondering...is your company hiring?" one netizen added.

As of now it's not clear what job exactly the woman has, or if her videos are a stunt approved by her company.

Either way, they're still pretty amazing -- excuse us while we drool.

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Yvette is a Viral Content Reporter at Mashable Asia. She was previously reporting for BBC's Singapore bureau and Channel NewsAsia.

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