Life can be quite simple especially when I am traveling. We got the pleasure to spend our Christmas holiday in Taiwan. Though it has rained non-stop since we arrived, the food and people totally made up for it. A big bowl of warm and tasty Taiwanese beef noodle soup (臺灣牛肉湯麵) in the town city of LouDong (羅東) on Zhong Hua Road across the car park (老牌牛肉麵) at a rainy winter day gave me a super satisfying sensation. It tasted just like the familiar flavour in Vancouver. Now, that I visited Taiwan, it was so surprising to find out my daily diet back home was influenced so much by Taiwanese cuisine! It is completely because there were so many immigrants from Taiwan in Vancouver and our largest Chinese supermarket , T&T, was own by Taiwanese. I had the great pleasure to enjoy countless authentic Taiwanese food in Vancouver!!!!
The beef noodle soup was in good filling size with well made soup base that is meaty but not too salty and very generous amount of braised beef that you can never get in HK for the money we pay (well....even if you are willing to pay extra, you won't get such a well made and generous portion). It is said to say that as we have more tourists from China, I feel that the food in HK has not only gotten more expensive but the portion and quality are not like before anymore.
I am really in food heaven in Taiwan!
