Jianhong Beef Noodles — Restaurant in Wanhua District

牛肉面 Beef Noodles (Small) = TWD110 No Service Charge

This Place gave me a Very Hong Kong 小吃店 type of Vibe at the Side of a Street. 🇭🇰 There weren't much Customers around at 9.20am on a Monday Morning.

They have 3 Unique Condiments in this Place.

Chilli Condiment This certainly has a Taucheo Bean Paste Base. Its Very Salty. There is also some type of Veggie Veggie type of Spiciness that I am Very Unfamiliar with. This tastes like nothing we have in Singapore.

Bright Orange Powder Paste This has a Light and Sticky Niam Niam Texture when mashed together in your Mouth. Abit of Spicy but also not very Spicy type. Again a Very Unusual Condiment that I have never eaten before. No idea what this is made of.

Dark Red Powder Paste This tasted like Chinese Styled 红油 Chilli. It is Spicy but doesn't bite hard although it does linger abit. This one I think i've eaten before in Singapore somewhere but don't remember where. Probably some China Restaurant I'd imagine.

牛肉面 Beef Noodles (Small) = TWD110

Even for a Small, this was still a Very Big Bowl of Noodles served in a Big Plastic Bowl.

The 1st Taste of the Beef Broth immediately felt Very Much Less Intense Beefiness. I mean its still Beefy, but very much less so compared to Liu Shandong. The Taste of the Broth also leans more towards Sweetish.

There were 6 Pieces of Braised Beef with about Bite-Sized Cut. While this is a Decent Tasting Beef, it was Definitely More Meaty and Not as Soft and Tender.

The Noodles used here also looked like Japanese Udon Noodles, but I feel this was the Weakest Link in the Dish. One bite of this, you can tell it is Noticeably Firmer and Almost Certainly Came from a Package. The Amount of Noodles is Acceptable and Filling for the Price even for Small though.

Eating Everything Together was Acceptable, but also Unremarkable. Adding the Condiments didn't improve or degrade the Dish. It tastes exactly like something you'd find in a Regular Hawker Centre. Decent Tasting, but it also tastes like any other Regular Run-Of-The-Mill Taiwanese Beef Noodle out there.

Conclusion and Closing Thoughts

At the Price of TWD110 (S$4.50) for this Small Bowl of Beef Noodle is an Acceptable Price although I cannot say it is particularly very Cheap.

The Broth was Very Noticeably Less Beefy, the Braised Beef Pieces were Not as Soft Tender, and the Main Culprit the Noodles very obviously tasted like its from a Package.

Don't get me Wrong, this is Not a Trash Bowl of Beef Noodles. It is Decent Tasting, Affordable for the Amount you're given and will Fill You Up. Culinarily however, you can see Traces where it doesn't match up to a Higher Standard especially when using a Typical Noodle Package. The Beef Pieces also weren't Super Tender which means they weren't in the Pot for Very Long.

This is a Bowl of Beef Noodles that with some Basic Culinary Knowledge, anyone will be able to cook using Supermarket Package Noodles. The Beef Broth is Decent but not Super Beefy, and I reckon can be Achieved by Boiling a Couple of Beef Bones.

I'm sorry if I sound like I hate this Beef Noodles but I'm not. Its just that this is Not a Gourmet Level of Beef Noodles and is really meant just to fill up the Belly which it does very well. The Amount of Food you're getting for the Price is Decent. It's a Friendly Place and the Stall Owners are Nice.

But having said all that, to me this is still an Average Tasting Beef Noodles Soup. I thought the 3 Condiments were More Interesting than the Beef Noodle Soup itself. As such, I'm afraid I cannot give anything higher than an Average Score for this one.

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A very local place where you sit by the street and enjoy a bowl of delicious beef noodles. At first I thought it's just going to be just an other beef noodles place, but once I tasted the noodle soup then I know why this place is so popular. The soup base is a clear but yet very tasty and not greasy, the beef is so tender and the portion is generous. The noodles tasted even better with the preserved vegetables that they provide for free on the table (only found out when I saw the other customers adding it to their noodles). The best thing is this place opens 24 hours.

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Alright, drove by because I was craving some serious beef noodle soup. Wife and kid was in the car tearing everything apart, my queue for a smoke break.

Ok, like what is up with this store? I ordered food for 2 people and DAYUM they gave me enough to feed a fam of 5. Like seriously thanks a lot ya’ll not easy these days making ends meet but you really made sure we are gonna be fed. Taste was out of this world, make sure to use the spicy condiments on the table and…

I’m sure I just got lucky and took someone else’s order (OoOooh That gnashing of teeth and cryin’ in pain) I’ll be back just to make sure it wasn’t a...