洪師父麵食棧 (台北, 中山區)

This noodle shop eventually opened on the very last day of my visit in Taipei, I’ve really struck gold!

There are quite a number of their noodles that won noodle competitions a few years ago, the Boneless Short Ribs & Beef Briskets Noodles that I ordered on my day of visit is one of them.  They tout the use of boneless short ribs from USA and beef briskets from Taiwan, which agricultural products Taiwanese people are always very proud of.

The noodle only came after quite a while longer in comparison with average waiting time for other restaurants.  The first thing that caught my attention upon the first mouthful of the soup is the greatness of its quality, never have I tasted anything on par with this one in Hong Kong, so intense delicious taste of beef but not salty.  The USA short ribs and Taiwanese beef briskets are both very great with their individual distinctive tastes, albeit the local beef briskets is a little bit coarse in texture in comparison with the USA’s.  The noodles is chewy and discernibly a fragrance of wheat out of it.

It is a thing capable of rendering all beef noodles I’ve tasted in Hong Kong sound silly.  Isn’t beef noodle one of the essence of Taiwanese cuisine? Hitherto, I believe it definitely is!