Hi everyone! In today's video, we are going to find
out which place in Taipei has the best beef noodle soup!
Now beef noodle soup is an extremely popular dish here in Taiwan it is one of
my all-time favorite Taiwanese dishes. So today I have chosen four places for us
to go to and these are some of the highest rated places for beef noodle
soup in Taipei so we are gonna go to each place and try their noodles their
beef and their broth which is arguably the most important part of a beef noodle
soup and we're gonna see how they compare to each other because these are
these staples of what makes a good beef noodle soup so we're coming up on our
first stop, so let's go!
Okay so we just made it to our first stop of this beef noodle soup tour and
we are at Fu Hong Beef Noodles which is really really popular but I myself
haven't had a chance to try it so I'm sharing my first experience with you
guys and this is definitely one of the most popular beef noodle student places
in Taipei like they have thousands and thousands of amazing reviews and this
place is also open 24 hours which I don't really know any other beef noodle
soup place is open 24 hours so you can get your beef noodle soup fix any time
of the day so I basically just ask them what's their most famous thing and
obviously they said the people go soup and then I ordered it with these wider
thicker noodles because they said it's more QQ which means chewy and I'm all
about the chewy noodles so I got a small bowl here for only 90 NT and on your
table you're gonna see that they have different things for you to add into
your beef noodle soup such as hot oil and pickled vegetables as well as like
vinegar and stuff so you can really customize your bowl here here is my beef
noodle soup we got some broth we got some pieces of beef that looked like it
has a little bit of tendon running through it as well but no huge tending
pieces in this I added some pickled vegetables and I'm gonna add some of
that hot oil it's kind of like a solid so it's very interesting I'm gonna just
add like I don't know how spicy it is I'm just gonna add like that much and
this bowl is the seriously steaming hot look at all that steam coming out of the
noodles alright can't wait any longer let's dig in those
noodles definitely have a chew they're not the Chuy's noodles of it but I'm
pretty sure they're handled like they look like they're pulled with love the
broth actually poached a noodle nicely so even though I'm only eating the
noodles I still get some flavor of that broth so let's move on to the beef they
have like a few pieces in here they don't give you too much but this is also
a small bowl the beef actually looks very nice and tender so let's try it
it's not like melt-in-your-mouth tender but it is a very very juicy and
frightful all right now let's move on to probably the most important part of a
beef noodle soup the broth so as I fill up my spoon here you can kind of see
that there's these little bubbles of oil at the top I think that's actually from
the hot oil that I added because before I added that hot oil the broth actually
didn't look very greasy at all okay this one is actually more mild like the
flavor doesn't punch you in the face but it's definitely there what I like about
this broth is that even though you can kind of see those bubbles of oil at the
top it's actually not greasy at all this is definitely a really good bowl of beef
noodle soup and especially for the value only 90 NCE that's only like three US
dollars so this is one of the cheapest bowls of beef noodle soup I've had all
right our next stop on this beef noodle soup tour and it is probably the most
famous beef noodle soup place in Taiwan Buddhism Yongkang beef noodles and I've
been here like countless times it's definitely one of my favorites this is
kind of like the beef noodle of all beef noodles so what I have here is their
spicy beef noodle soup with half beef half tendon and I like to get the
combination so that you can get both they're really really tender beef and
also they're really silky tendon and I also piled in those pickled greens that
they have setting out the table when you look at the beef it pretty much is
falling apart in my chopsticks like that's how tender it is the
and then it's so silky it's so hard to pick up in the chopsticks it slips out
but it's really really good ready I come here I'm amazed how delicious it is I
mean we just had the noodle they're not super chewy but they are a
very nice consistency I love how every strand of noodle is
coated with that oily goodness of the broth let's try some of this silky
tendon and this is probably my favorite tendon I've ever had because it's just
so smooth and not chewy the tendon is so silky that you don't even need teeth to
bite it my grandma could eat that tendon and she has no teeth so that's how you
know how soft that is next up are there pieces of beef and since they're in big
chunks they don't quite melt in your mouth but they're so tender that they
just fall apart like it's barely even holding on in my chopsticks so let me
eat it before it falls apart
it just disintegrated into my mouth that is seriously unmatched like it's so good
and last but not least we have to try the broth of course I'm gonna it's super
fragrant just the depth of that beachy flavor I also love how they make it
spicy too there's actually quite strong garlic flavor in it as well even though
I have so much eating to do today I'm still gonna finish every last drop
because you got a church
okay so now we are at our third stop which is Yong dong Fong and this place
is really really famous as well just like you're calling your own man and
you'll actually find a lot of people comparing this place to young Kong some
people like this place that are some people like Jung Hyung better so I'm
here to share my opinions with you and I ordered a small bowl of their half beef
half tendon beef noodle soup which is also what I got at they don't fall in
place but this one doesn't come already spicy like they have this spicy lard
kind of paste that you're supposed to mix into your soup if you want it spicy
looking at this bowl there's a lot of this kind of oily greasy film on top it
has a lot of those oil bubbles and I actually don't remember it being so oily
I got so I came here like two weeks ago and I don't remember it being like this
so we also have those large booth pieces which have some tendon in it as well you
can see that jelly-like texture running through the bezel and we also have our
pieces of tendon looking very smooth and silky and then notice here they look
more like a dawn thickness so before I add that spicy paste I'm gonna go ahead
and try the broth without it you can really save all those oil bubbles there
I don't know it's kind of throwing me off but let's try it
Wow so much rich beef flavor there I do think it's quite oily clammed getting
this kind of like film of oil it's not too bad but I just don't remember it
being so oily when you drink this you can tell that they've probably been
cooking that beef broth for so long hours you know the beef flavor and it
really like shines through I'm gonna add some of that paste honestly in my
opinion beef noodle soup is just not the same David not spicy but that's just my
humble opinion and then we just mix it in with the broth all right let's try it
oh yeah I think it kind of comes at the end like
when I first drink I was like whoo not much of a difference but at the end you
can kind of feel that kick I feel like it added some fattiness into the broth
as well that's the kind of spicy beef noodle soup I'm looking for all right
let's go ahead and try some of the noodles this thing is gonna splatter
everywhere don't wear white when you eat beef noodle soup just a pro tip okay
let's go for these noodles
those noodles have a nice chew for sure I feel like my preference is that I like
thicker noodles rather than thinner noodles so actually like these a lot
but one thing about them is that they don't hold on to the broth flavor as
well as the other ones that we tried but that might also be because they're
thicker I don't know I don't really know the science behind whether or not the
broth sticks on the noodles all right let's go ahead and try a piece
of the tendon definitely chewy not as smooth as the ones that we had earlier
today a young Kong but just depends on what kind of tendon you like you know I
feel like some people actually like that gelatinous chew from tendon so I really
think it's like a personal preference whether you'd like your tendon more
chewy or more like melty silky you know clearly I need to work on my description
so let's just move on and try some of the beef
these pieces are definitely more of a thinner slice and yeah you got that
tendon running through it I barely even needed to bite down and it already it
was like starting to fall apart you know this beef is interesting it
actually needs that tendon running through it to kind of break up the
dryness of the beef because when you get a chunk without the tendon you're like
oh that's are we gonna dry but before that when I ate it with the tendon I
didn't notice any dryness at all so as long as it has a tendon that a solid
piece of beef for sure I've had two bowls of beef noodle soup today so I am
a happy girl and I'll see you guys tomorrow for the last stop
okay guys I'm here in line at our fourth and final stop and I actually came here
on a Saturday a few days ago and the line was crazy long and I was like I
don't have time to wait in this line but today's a Tuesday and I'm back and there
is still quite a long line just a warning that there might be a line here
even on a weekday so we are finally inside it actually didn't take me too
long to get seated so that was only a party of one so I ordered their braised
beef noodle soup and immediately my first impression was that this school is
really really big for only 150 MT so the portion size here are pretty generous
and what sets this place apart from the others is that their noodles are super
thick like they're thick for beef noodle soup noodles and they really load the
noodles in here the ratio of noodles to broth and beef is actually very high the
beef looks pretty solid you can see that there's actually a lot of fat on those
pieces too and also they really load on some green onions here which I'm always
a fan of green onions so let's go ahead and dig into these noodles look at these
they're so thick Wow very interesting actually the noodles are chewy but not
as true as I expected with this kind of thickness like you see noodles that are
this thick and you would think that they are quite chewy but they're not chewy or
really than the other noodles that we've tried at the other places and then it's
very interesting because the noodles did soak up some of that broth flavor but
for some reason it reminded me of like it has this like deli meat flavor to it
it's actually very strange and I don't know it's bizarre it's really bizarre to
me I don't know why I'm tasting some kind of like almost like salami slash
pepperoni kind of flavor yeah I don't know it's really weird but let me go
ahead and try the broth so it actually is quite oily even though the broth is
more of a clear color and some of the other ones we've tried
yeah I do taste beef it is a lighter broth in terms of flavor but I still do
get that with pepperoni ish flavor I don't know what's up with that I'm sorry
like I can't describe it better I'm gonna add some of the hot oil to the
broth myself and I hope that it will help the broth get some more flavor yes
that's a little kick that I needed I actually highly recommend adding the hot
oil into the broth I really like it with hot oil all right now let's try a piece
of beans
it's nothing too special not particularly tender like even though it
has some fat on the pieces and then compared to the other places we tried
this house at least tender beef and the flavor of the beef is kind of off to me
it doesn't have that delicious rich beefy meaty flavor that I love all right
I'm gonna finish up my bowl and then I'll meet you guys to discuss what we
think okay so that was a lot of beef noodle soup these are literally so
highly reviewed like thousands of reviews so it was really awesome being
able to try all four of them in one video and then seeing how each place
differed from another and here are my rankings based solely on flavor not
based on the line not based on the price this is purely on flavor so in fourth
place I would give it to Luo Shandong beef noodles for some reason I just
thought that weird pepperoni kind of taste in the broth was just throwing me
off not that I hated it per se but I just
thought it didn't really belong in a beef noodle soup I also didn't think the
noodles were as chewy as they could have been and the beef really just I wasn't
impressed with that so coming in third place I would give it to the first place
we went to foo Hong beef noodles I really like to have this place gave kind
of like a thicker flat wide noodle and I actually really really like their broth
as well so I have to give it to them for a third place and coming up in second
place I have to give it to me don't Phong beef noodles I really like how
chewy their noodles are and their broth does have really deep beef flavor and I
also really like their spicy lard paste thing that they put on the side because
I like to kind of pile that in there so I can get it spicier and add more flavor
to the broth so last but not least first place goes to yom kong beef noodles and
this shop really holds a special place in my heart ever since i tried it for
the first time a few years back it has always been my ultimate favorite beef
noodle soup and today just really reinforced that because out of all the
places that we tried it had the most flavorful broth as well as the most
melt-in-your-mouth beef and tendon so I really have to
award them with my stamp of approval and the title of best
okay now this is just my opinion feel free to make your own opinions or if you
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