There are many dishes that can be cooked in five minutes!
Sliced potatoes in vinegar, shredded pork with bean sprouts, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, cold cucumbers and scrambled eggs with green peppers are all easy to cook. You can't just eat vegetables! You can make another soup, Hu spicy soup, tomato and egg soup, laver soup and so on.
northerners can go to the steamed bread shop to buy hot steamed bread that has just been cooked. It is not easy to really cook a meal in five minutes, and there are not many ingredients to choose from. Egg noodles are ok, but they are too close to instant noodles.