Taiwan- noodle shop

There are some local noodle shops by where I live in Taiwan. They are usually served for breakfast or lunch. Noodles are so cheap (less than $1 a bowl), now, let's see what these noodle shops offer!

乾麵－ Plain noodles with a simple sauce made with vinegar, sesame oil. Next to it, we got some kelp and tofu! Simple and yummy!

Another noodle shop, here, they have tofu, meat, and pork intestine topped with a thick soy sauce and ginger. You might be a little grossed out by intestines, but they are actually served a lot in Taiwanese dishes.

A closer look at the meat that is served along side of noodles.

This is Taiwanese style noodles, noodles served in a thicker sauce and topped with chives and bean sprouts.

For less than $5, you can surely get a full and delicious breakfast meal! I love Taiwan!

I'm Back!

Hello folks! I've been quite busy the past three weeks… however, I am back to introduce lots of wonderful foods here in Taiwan. 

Sweet potato fries with ling hing mui (salty dried plum powder)! There are only a few places that make it good. This place in Jin Mei market makes them the best in my opinion!

Kiki- one of our favorite restaurants. Crispy skin with soft (I mean, SOFT) tofu. I am not a tofu kind of person but I LOVED this dish!

Also at Kiki. Garlic pork slices. Also delisher.

Here we have my childhood love- egg covered rice. I got this at a food court of a mall. Fried pork cutlet was juicy and the curry sauce was so delicious with the egg and the rice. Drooling right now...

Ah, and here we have rotating sushi… jealous?

 Here is one of the hottest things here now at the night markets- stuffed potatoes! I think the way they make them is to first mashed their potatoes, roll them into potato sized balls, fry the balls, then split them open and add in your favorite ingredients, THEN they pour tons of melted cheese over everything. Here we have broccoli, corn, and ham. God it was sooo good but I was a little afraid of a heart attack in the midst of indulging.

Hey, what's a night market without stinky tofu???

Large sausage covered small sausage (direct translation). Sticky rice covering Chinese sausage with some sauerkraut and a slice of cucumber!

YUMS, got the sashimi from a fish market. SOOO fresh and so cheap. $10USD for all this fresh fish!

Intestine noodles- You might think it's gross but whatevs, it's good. Please dont mind the deoderant in the back of the pic… long story...

Taiwanese Tempora. Basically some turnip, different fish cakes, and tofu topped with a sweet sauce. Really traditional Taiwanese stuff...

Stinky tofu again!

This is A-ge. It's the first time I've ever had it. We got it from Danshui, where A-ge is famous for. It is fried tofu skin covered in dong fen (noodles made with mung beans), then they seal the pocket with fish cake batter. They also top it with the same kind of sweet sauce as Chinese tempora.

This is also a very traditional Taiwanese dish… fried rice noodles. Also got this in Danshui. It was very good!!

Alright that is all for today. I will be sharing some more stuff with y'all next time!

樂麵屋

If you read my blog a lot, you would notice that I LOVE ramen. Yums, eating ramen is so comforting when you find a place that make them good!

I found this place, 樂麵屋, in Taipei that makes very good ramen. What I love about this place is that you get to customize your own bowl. After you pick your soup base, you get to choose whether you like  thick/thin noodles, how you want your noodles cooked, how salty you'd like your soup to be, etc. I loved it! 

I picked the 豚骨拉麵. The soup was rich and flavorful and the pieces of meat were tender. I ordered thick noodles cooked not to thorough and that turned out so good as well.

Pattie ordered the Miso Ramen. This one was good too! The soup was slightly lighter than mine but still had a really good flavor. It wasn't too salty either.

I would definitely come back here again. I had a yummy eating experience and the waiting staff were wonderful as well!

Ramen

Alright, besides the Asian sandwich place that I mentioned below, I also had really yummy ramen this week. Ippudo in the East Village.

This famous ramen place is fairly hard to get into- they don't take reservations and the waits are often over an hour long. If you are a hungry boob, then you are out of luck. (I am not sure why I chose "hungry boob", it's the first thing I thought of, leave me alone, you boob).

They sat us at the bar, and this is what it looks like-