My last stop to eat in Taipei, and I thought I would try Lao Shandong Homemade Noodles. Another eatery that has been recommended in the Michelin guide app. Finding this place was a bit harder, as it was in the basement of a building. Thankfully, there is an English menu you can order from, and the staff can be slightly rude. I ordered two bowls of soup, and she looked at me strangely and thought I was strange ordering two.

I ordered the beef noodle soup with beef tendons. The soup was nice and had a clean taste to it. The beef was super tender, as were the beef tendons, each having a nice different flavour to them. The noodles were thick and quite broad and very different to the other beef noodle places I have tried, but it was an excellent point of difference. Overall, I am not going to complain about these noodles.

Next was the hot and sour soup with dumplings. The soup was nice but not as much flavour as I suspected it would have. There was a pleasant sourness to it, but I wanted more depth from the soup. The dumplings were made of chives and pork, but primarily chives. Excellent, and I liked the skins, but they were slightly too thick for my liking and were as thick as the noodles, so it became a pretty heavy dish.

Ended only eating about a third of each bowl. Overall nice dishes but I prefer the other two places that I had the beef noddles at: Halal Beef Noodles and Master Jim’s Beef Noodles.