hey guys it's mike chen
today i am in taipei taiwan ever since i
left taiwan the last time all i've been
thinking about is a delicious
piping hot bowl of beef noodle soup
so today we're going to make this a beef
noodle soup thing the reason why i'm
really excited well besides the fact
that i'm going to stuff myself with beef
noodle soup
all day long is that i'm going to go to
a place i really loved
last time then i'm going to go to a
place i've never been but i heard a lot
of good things about
finally i'm going to a place that has
arguably
the most expensive bowl of beef noodle
soup
in the world all right all this talking
is just getting me really hungry so
let's get the beef noodle day started
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first place i'm at one of my all-time
favorite beef noodle places in taipei
yong kong beef noodle soup last time i
tried about six different beef beetle
soup places in taiwan
in this place this was my favorite i
mean just just take a look
at this bee's noodle soup and just the
colors like staring at a rainbow
strikingly beautiful i got a bowl with
half beef tendon
and half regular beef i just tried to
pick this up ever so tenderly
and this beet just fell apart literally
i'm not putting much pressure on the
beef at all and it's just breaking apart
this place is really known for very
flavorful broth the color of the broth
is incredibly dark a lot of soy sauce in
here i just want you to know ever since
i left last time
i've been thinking about you hope you've
been thinking about me as well have you
i knew it i knew it that's love right
here start off with some soup
ah just as beefy as i remember it
spicy as well no hot oil needed here but
it does need a little bit of vinegar to
kind of cut down on the fat
and feeding those soup places in taiwan
they only use
white vinegar i'm used to more of the
chinese
black vinegar but this is okay
perfect
chewy springy noodles just soaked in
that beautiful broth
and i cannot wait for my first bite of
beef
you know as i'm filming videos i make a
note of places that i can go to when i'm
90 and i have no teeth and for sure this
is one of them i mean i probably can't
chew the noodles but that beef
yeah that needs no chewing at all and i
would suggest take some noodles take
some beef
slurp the soup right from the side of
the bowl you know just just get into it
immense yourself in the beefy experience
like i said i tried multiple
noodle soup places and this is by far my
favorite and just look at this this is a
lean piece of beef if you're into spicy
if you
love a lot of flavor and some people
don't some people like their soup a
little more light
but if you want a bowl of beef noodle
soup that's going to sucker punch you
with flavor this is the place to go for
one
the last part is my favorite because
when i'm breaking my meat apart you get
these straggler bits of beef that just
like sinking to the bottom
so every mouthful of soup needs to get
like little pieces of different types of
beef
it's spicy it's savory it's a little
gelatinous this is like a firework
finale right here a beef noodle soup
finale
this was so good my chopsticks wants to
give it a standing ovation how would
that go like i don't know
or okay i'm thinking way too much into
this this is the only bowl i'm gonna eat
last time i was here i ate two bowls but
that's how i'm gonna eat because i got
two more bowls of big noodle soup today
but guys
definitely hit this place up if you are
ever in taipei if you love beef noodle
soup
you can't miss this place all right
let's go on to location number two
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beef soup number two ding dong from deep
noodle soup
i also got the half lean meat and half
tendon
and right away you can tell the
difference between this bowl of noodle
soup and yong kang's noodle soup
you can see that the broth is a lot
lighter i mean yonkan's broth is just
dark
this although it is still kind of dark
it's definitely a lot lighter than the
last ball of noodle soup
also take a look at the meat itself
yunkans meat is
chunks here is sliced beef and what i
like is that look at this
you can see the tendon just swirling all
around the meat
and i love cuts of beef like this
because you get the nice lean meat and
you also get that nice gelatinous
texture from the tendency the noodles
themselves are a little
thicker they're almost like the size of
udon noodles i'm thinking it's gonna
have a nice bouncy chewy feel let me
just get a spoonful of broth
wow okay it's definitely not as
flavorful as your kong's brother but
this
this broth it tastes like beet has been
soaked in here for days
such a strong beefy flavor like you
don't taste
much else besides the beef let's try the
noodles
chewy algente really al dente because
they're thick then to add some of their
famous spicy paste
okay they said to add one spoonful and
just mix it in my
soup wow
yeah that is definitely not a happy meal
level spicy pepper in here i feel like
that's either habanero where they put
some ghost pepper in there
that thing's got a lot of kick all right
let's let's put some chinese vinegar in
there
yeah that vinegar did a lot and we
wanted to try the piece of this beef
oh that's the best thing in this bowl it
has a little chew just a little bit you
chew into it you got that nice meaty
and gelatinous texture because of the
tendency swirling all around inside and
then a piece of just tendon
more chewy than the melt in your mouth
don't calm deep
but i feel like the beefy flavor is
better here
it just it just breaks apart it's more
breaky it's more
shattery does that make sense and this
is their signature gluten
oh wow there's like juicy gluten that's
gonna be really good in the soup
take a piece of gluten because this
thing see all the holes in there that's
gonna soak up
soup really well zip that in the soup
and let it soak beautiful beef up
oh yeah can you feel this oh i feel like
my only complaint if i did have one
about this bowl of beef noodle soup is
that because the noodles are so thick
the flavor isn't able to
kind of penetrate through the noodle
flavor it just this doesn't stick on
there as well as the thin noodles do
that's why i feel like you need to take
a little bite and then just gulp a
mouthful of soup that's why when you run
out of beef soup
they add an extra helping for you for
free beef is good
tendon is good the soup is spectacular
if you take away the spice
and just gauge the soup purely based on
beefy flavor
this is the best bowl of beef soup i've
had in taiwan so far
that's it another bowl of noodle soup
down i think i'm gonna go back to my
hotel i'm gonna check in i'm gonna take
a nap because
the next bowl noodle soup i need to be
ready for it and take a shower clean
myself
be well presented because if i'm gonna
spend 300
on a bowl of noodle soup i'm gonna dull
myself up a little
i am at the final beef noodle soup
location
of the day daddy beef noodle soup and i
dressed up for the occasion okay well
this is me dressing up and on the menu
there are eight
different types of beef noodle soup
ranging from 500 taiwan dollars to
10 000 taiwan dollars so and 500 time 1
is about 16 17 us dollars and 10 000
taiwan dollars
is over 300 us dollars and i am here of
course today to try out the yuenshon
euro mia war
presidential beef noodle soup that cost
over 300 us dollars which i think
it is the most expensive bowl of beef
noodle soup in the world and i was able
to talk to
eric who told me why this dish really
deserves this hefty price tag
first of all the beef used in the noodle
soup is of the finest quality
and what's really unique is they they
cut it with scissors to kind of trim it
to the perfect
ratio of fat and meat and tenderness
so this bowl of noodle soup actually
uses five to six different stocks
but here's the biggest question does it
really taste
all that good well that's why i'm here
to find out let's go get a ball
oh here we go this is it 300
worth of beef noodle soup sitting right
in front of me
can i just say this plate and pull
really beautiful
first off it smells amazing supremely
beefy
here we go this is like a what five
dollar sip of soup
wow that is beefy that is really beefy
and there is a difference of beefiness
between this place and the soup i just
had earlier which i proclaimed also to
be really beefy this is way more
flavorful
this is like big soup inception it's
like beef soup onion
you just keep peeling back the layers
and there's something new to discover i
mean
it's brothy it's smooth silky this is
like morgan freeman's
voice just deep velvety rich wow
that is incredible silky broth a little
bit oily
but oh so rich
noodles nice chewy al dente the noodle
size here it's kind of in between the
first place and the second place well i
like a good balance
let's dig into this beef this is the
angus first of all i barely touched it
you can see a beautiful layer of fat
here
the meat itself holy tender cow you know
what i don't even dare put the whole
piece of beef in my mouth because that's
like that's like a 50
piece of beef i was gonna put like 20
dollars worth in my mouth
oh wow that's a life-changing beef
this piece you can tell it's bit fatty i
love it when my beef has some curves
i don't want it to be on jenny craig i
wanted to have a little padding
the fatty part obviously just melts
right but then again so does the lean
part of this beef
and that flavor wow do you put a piece
of beef in your mouth and the beefy
flavor just just kind of lingers there
like like a beefy perfume that just it
just stays on your tongue okay i'm gonna
eat the rest of this 50
piece of beef wow that was so
rich and smooth i need to buy the
noodles after that just just to kind of
chase it
now we're going to move on to the
australian cuts this piece of beef must
have done some gymnastics
it's leaning but super flexible look at
this
this just slapped me in the face good
this piece of beef
has like 20 cows in there i know that
doesn't make sense at all but that's
what it kind of tastes like
such a beautiful beefy flavor it's got
so much flavor
i feel like i need noodles to accompany
it
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i needed to chew the noodles in that
bite i didn't need to choose the beef
like at all this is an american cut it's
trying to compete with his australian
friends for tenderness here whoa
i never get sick of just like seeing
this thing just fall apart
every piece from the beef i had today
it's like they all have mutant
superpowers
and that superpower it's just extra
beefy flavor like every piece
it just tastes like an enhanced cow
finally this is half lean meat half
tendon
none of these pieces of beef want to
just just stay together
look how sensitive they are you touch
them and they just just crumple
that piece was also chewing optional
i went and asked for more soup as it's
just
way too fabulous the best compliment i
could give to a noodle soup is
not adding hot oil or vinegar which i
tend to do with
every single beef noodle soup i eat yeah
that's right you're beautiful just the
way you are and you should be proud of
that
i mean honestly 500 divided by 30.
i'm asian i can't do the simple math are
you serious