Yangrou chaomian 羊肉炒麵 (mutton fried noodles)

This is another favorite from my local noodle shop. I have been enjoying being able to regularly eat mutton, it is such a wonderfully flavorful meat! As noted in past posts I have enjoyed this same shops lamb meat fried rice, but I have decided these fried noodles are really notable. The combination of green onions, onions, large strips of ginger, large chunks of garlic, all infused with cumin powder.

Where the hell?

For the few of you who have been following this blog and were wondering what happened to my fairly regular posts, well I think this picture will explain a lot. I have pushed through some five hundred years of literary history in this gap of nearly three weeks. I hope, with the ending of this chapter, I will see more than the space here pictured and my regular food stops!

わい! Sorry for the long absence! The combination of working hard on me main project and a nasty little cold derailed by postings. Well, I have started to frequent the menu at a so called Shanxi 山西 "Shaved noodle" (dao xiao mian 刀削麵 place mentioned in previous posts. Today I had muxu chao mian 木須炒麵, fried noodles with shredded mushrooms, carrots, cabbage and eggs. This place is really quite good! The other day I visited a shaved noodle place in the Shida night market (師大夜市), but it was very much inferior to this. As a side note, I would just say the Shida market has really declined, that is to say, food-wise, the only real measure of a night market.

Bike ride

Well, I had another bike ride today, this time I thought to take some shots as we bumped through traffic.

daoxiao mian 刀削麵

I finally made it over to a noodle shop 4 or 5 blocks from here, a "shaved noodled" (daoxiao mian 刀削麵) place. It was worth the "long" trek past the numerous other places. Freshly shaved noodles in all their thick springiness! (ほんとにコシがあるよ).

Feicui wan 翡翠灣

I made a little trip to the Pacific coast to visit an old friend. This is in a small village of "Turtle Roar" Gui hou cun 龜吼村 (But as a side note, according to a sign in the town the original name of the village was Gui kong 龜空 "Turtle hutch" because sea turtles would come ashore there to lay egg in hutches, but then the turtles stopped coming (for some unexplained reason)and the name change to Gui kong 龜孔, which then changed to Gui hou as it is now for obvious phonetic and orthographic reasons). Here are some pictures from the main local attraction a coastal peninsular park. For more photos from this trip see Cell Phone Photography.

Suan la tang jiao 酸辣湯餃

This is one of those foods that I looked back on fondly since the last time I live in Taiwan. A thick sour and spicy soup with dumplings in it. I got this articulation at a place called Changxing xiaopu 長興小舖 near me home. Not bad but not up to the level of the place that set the standard so many years ago.