Beef Noodle Soup… it seems like such a simple dish and yet somehow it takes on almost mystic proportions. It bears a superficial resemblance to Japanese ramen soup but really seems to be wholly Chinese. It’s not quite pot roast soup with noodles, but then again, it is.
On our last trip we just missed the Taipei beef noodle contest which disappointed me greatly.
After going to the water park, we decided to eat beef noodle and choose a restaurant not exactly at random, but darned close. By shear chance, it turns out we picked the 2006 winner of the Taipei best beef noodle soup.
It was, without doubt, the best beef noodle soup I’ve ever tasted. I was starving after the water park so I might have been more forgiving than usual. We went back on another day for a second tasting and it was equally as good.
Much though I enjoy beef noodle soup, the others I’ve had have always got a slightly off flavor to them. There’s some spice that doesn’t quite compliment the beef, and more so the broth itself. I’ve had an idealized taste for what I’d do to beef noodle (without the competency to cook it myself) and this was a near as close as I could imagine. Now it’s time to start reverse-engineering.
Excellent! Strongly recommended.
Lau Dong’s Beef Noodle (“Dong†is a surname, can be spelled “Tungâ€, “Lau†is old, so this is “Old Dong’s Beef Noodle†– it’s best not to think about it no matter how you spell it.)
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