hey everyone it's mark wiens with
migrationology.com i'm in taipei taiwan
one of the most beloved taiwanese dishes
is beef noodles and it's a dish you have
to eat when you are in taiwan so i'm on
my way walking to one of the most
well-known and one of the most famous
beef noodle restaurants in taipei
and
i can't wait to try this beef noodle
soup
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we arrived to the beef noodle restaurant
and this place is extremely famous but
luckily we got here early so it's not
that busy we got here right as they open
the restaurant sort of occupies a couple
of different rooms right along this
sidewalk and they seated us in
kind of just uh this is just a little
room on the side of the road and it sort
of feels like a shed but i gotta love
these metal uh table tops middle bar
counter seats and then they serve the
noodles in a metal bowl as well you can
either order the small size or the large
size i got the large size it smells
really beautiful i can kind of smell a
little bit of cinnamon
and of course i can smell a beefy flavor
coming off of it so these are the slices
of beef and then i got half tendon so
these big chunks are tendon and then
below our noodles and then it's just
sprinkled with a big handful of green
onions from what i read about this
restaurant they they serve the broth uh
relatively plain but
the one of the most important
ingredients to add is this sauce this
paste sauce right here which is it looks
kind of like red peanut butter
but that's supposed to be an extremely
flavorful paste that you add to your
soup for extra flavor and spice and then
there's a chili sauce as well this broth
is they claim that it is very medicinal
and has all sorts of herbs and spices in
it for good health along with that beef
of course it's a little bit oily uh but
not too bad and yeah i gotta try it
first with nothing in it just this
straight broth
oh i can definitely taste um a little
bit of a cinnamony flavor and those
chinese herbs and medicinal properties
it is not too salty i think before still
before adding the any condiments i'm
going to taste the beef and maybe some
of those noodles
oh that's a thick slice of beef i didn't
realize that i thought it was thinner
okay okay never mind i'm going to try
the beef first oh just look at that
okay
oh i was not expecting it to be that
tender
oh that's like effortless chewing
yeah you do not need teeth to eat that
beef it's so soft and now we taste these
noodles real fast
which are
kind of thick thick noodles uh thick and
round
they um are a little bit sticky
and have a little bit of a
chewiness to them like um
yeah they're not overcooked okay i'm
going in for the the paste the flavor
paste now
let me smell that real fast
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i don't
i i'm stumped i have no idea what that
is it smells like
kind of has a roast it kind of has a dry
chili flavor aroma to it uh but kind of
different as well maybe some like
fermented beans i have no idea actually
i'll try that for now
and just kind of mix that
that immediately gives the entire bra
all of the broth a reddish color oh and
a little bit of oil and
okay let me just taste that real fast
oh that gives it a real kind of smoky
dry chili flavor and then we got some
more chili as well which will
never hurt a bowl of noodles i'm just
going right on there
that
and i am about to dig in some more of
these noodles
those noodles yeah are just so fresh
your texture
it's superb and then with that beef
this is just a
stunning superbowl of noodles that is
for sure okay and then the last thing in
my bowl are the pieces of
tendon which are huge and meaty and
jiggly
okay tendon tendon is not my favorite
thing but that is that is very soft
and
it is very easy to chew of course and
just sort of kind of melts in your mouth
um yeah that is good but i think i like
those pieces of beef better for sure
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along with the noodles they have a
couple of different side dishes
that's very juicy
um
oh
i think there's some juice going down my
lip yeah that just kind of bursts with
juice as you bite into it and then this
is just some kind of vegetable maybe
there's some garlic in there as well but
this looks kind of plain as well just
kind of to garnish the noodles
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yeah just garlic and maybe some sesame
oil
but that tastes pretty good to break up
the flavor of the oily beef noodles
the entire components of this bowl of
beef noodles are incredible but for me i
think the best thing are these slices of
beef they are just
ridiculously
like surprisingly tender and just fall
apart deliciousness for this piece of
beef i'm just going to add a little bit
of that chili sauce on there oh
that was a stunning bowl of beef noodles
my lips are it feels like i have some
chapstick on my lip as that's kind of
oily on the lips but so so good such a
balance of flavors
the medicinal broth
is just a well-balanced flavor and then
with that extra chili that paste
it just improves the flavor even more
and
if you love beef noodles um when you are
in taipei this is a restaurant you just
have to eat at that was just a delicious
bowl of noodles so i want to say a big
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