Beef Noodles

On Saturday, we went to the International Beef Noodle Festival. This is a Taipei specialty. There were sample bowls of beef noodle soup for us to try. We got to taste different styles of beef noodles and we watched mayors and county executives face off in a beef noodle cooking competition. People take beef noodles seriously here.

Taipei mayor making his beef noodles


My dad with a bowl of award-winning tomato beef noodles


Two different styles of beef noodles. The one on the right had Chinese medicine in the broth, their secret ingredient.


Even Superman wants to get in on the competition


This guy is delicately scorching thinly sliced beef with a kitchen torch for their take on beef noodles


Beef noodles--stir fried


Award-winning presentation: Beef noodles presented in a martini glass


How about some purple mochi rice in a Faberge egg?


This beef noodle place won the creative award last year. It had chewy udon noodles with very thinly sliced beef topped with kimchi and seaweed. All this soaked in a very light and cold soy beef broth. This was our favorite and best of all, the restaurant is really close to our house.



There was a long line for this place. They had hand-shaven noodles.


This was a typical bowl of beef noodle soup. Our least favorite.


It was a lot of fun to try out all these different styles of beef noodles. We will definitely go again next year!