Datong District, Taipei City｜潘家老牌牛肉麵

This post is more for English speaking tourists. I like small local eateries and this was good. I relied on ordering items based on pics others post. The egg dish is not in the menu. Very important to - have a translate app with Chinese scribble function so the owner can write back to you - use translate app to convert from English to Chinese and either show the characters or have the app read it out (I used this to ask for extra soup) - use the translate app to take a pic of the menu and translate it. I ordered the big beef bowl at the top leftmost of the menu for 160. This has three types of beef (meat, tendon, tripe or stomach). I suggest you try them even for those who think the stomach is not good. This large serving is big and I had a hard time finishing on my own as I ordered the egg dish plus the veggie dish but for 20 more than the smaller bowl I’d rather get the big one and take my time eating. The green food with the egg is kelp and is nice. The soup is not salty and I don’t know if they have salt to add but it’s good even if normally I prefer salty dishes. There is a veggie side dish in each table that you can just get as you want that is also good. This is located in an alleyway and it is clean and does not smell. In my country places like these have some stink so this is clean. Since it’s in an alleyway I think you may get wet when it rains and there’s wind though they have vinyl roofing over the alleyway. Very good food for only TWD 270 and beef bowl was already 160. So veggies should be 30 and egg and kelp and tofu dish is 70. The owners are very nice. I went at about 430pm and it was only me and another person who ate quickly and left.

I ordered a beef noodle (small), blanched vegetables, and tripe. Beef noodles 110, braised soup base, the soup base is relatively light, so the spiciness is relatively obvious. Compared with those 230 bowls, the beef is not much different, but the noodles are a bit hard. The beef tripe is 60, it is well braised and delicious. Blanched vegetables cost 30, which is also delicious. Great value for money. You can come.

Not the typical beef noodle soup but we loved it. Both spicy and non spicy are great