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Taipei’s Cheap Eats: Savory Edition

04 Saturday Oct 2014

Posted by misterselfish in Asia, Food & Drinks, Taiwan

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Ay Chung, Beef Noodle Soup, Cheap Eats, Cheap Eats Taipei, Jin Feng Lu Rou, Pork Rice, Selfish Year, Selfish Years, Slack Season, Taipei, Taiwan, Tao Yuan Street, Yong Kang Beef

This is the sixth of eleven posts on Taiwan. Check out our other posts here:

  • Time for Taiwan: An Introduction
  • 5 Nights at the Haunted Grand Hyatt Taipei
  • Sweating to Taipei’s National Sites
  • Taking it to the Streets: Taipei’s Night Markets
  • Hiking Elephant Mountain
  • Taipei’s Cheap Eats: Savory Edition
  • Taipei’s Cheap Eats: Sweets Edition
  • Heading to Green Island
  • Green Island’s Sites
  • Hiking Taroko Gorge, Part 1
  • Hiking Taroko Gorge, Part 2

Taipei is known as a mecca for cheap, delicious food. While I touched on some of the Night Market eats on Thursday, in today’s post I’ll talk about some of the better brick-and-mortar restaurants we visited.

These restaurants were more expensive than night market stalls, but they were still insanely cheap: $195 TWD (~$6.50 USD) for the cheapest meal, and $506 TWD (~$16.60) for the most expensive.

Keep in mind this was for two people and you get a sense of just how cheap good dining can be in Taiwan. Now on to the eats!

Beef Noodle Soup

A well known Taiwanese dish – braised beef is served with noodles in a slowly cooked broth with thinly sliced green onions. On the surface it sounds very similar to Japanese ramen, but Beef Noodles are a horse of a different color.

We tried this at two different restaurants: Yong Kang Beef noodle, and Tao Yuan Street Beef Noodle.

Yong Kang Beef Noodle

About a 5 minute walk from the Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall, Yong Kang Beef is a simple little sit down joint that offers a variety of different soups.

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