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COMPASS MAGAZINE
,Dec 1999. VOL. 7 ISSUE 1

Hole in the Wall Of the month: The best of Taichung's Small Local Eateries

Beifang (Northern) Restaurant

Specialties: Hand-cut noodles, dumplings, scallion/oil flat cakes, beef cakes
Address: 154, Meiteh Street (Chungcheng Park); 383, Kuo Kuang Road
Phone: (04) 2235-8632 (Meiteh); 2287-2627 (Kuo Kuang)
Hours: 11 am-2 pm, 5-8 pm

by John Chislett

Taichung is full of good beef noodle restaurants, but there are only one or two which offer traditional, hand-cut northern Chinese-style noodles. Beifang Restaurant is one of these, providing delicious bowls of these delicious, thick, irregular-looking noodles, which are made by cutting dough with a knife. A good-sized bowl of beef noodles (nio rou mien) is NT$90 and other selections include a similarly-good NT$70 meat-and-vegetables noodle mix (ta lu mien) and soup-less noodles (dza chiang mien) for NT$60. Other popular non-noodles offerings are the pancake-like NT$50 scallion/oil flat cakes (tsung you bing), palm-sized beef cakes (nio rou hsien bing) and the boiled dumplings (shwei jiao) and steamed dumplings (tzeng jiao), which cost NT$50 per steamer. There are plenty of small side dishes for NT$20 each and hot Chinese-style corn soup for NT$30. So good are the noodles and other dishes that this restaurant is frequently full. If the first floor looks packed out, don't worry. Going through the closed bathroom door at the back leads to a stairwell and plenty of more seating upstairs. Beifang Restaurant
has two branches but most diners will probably be closer to the Meiteh Street branch, located directly opposite the Chungcheng Park, near Chungshan Hall and China Medical College and Hospital. Taking Hsueh Shih Road downtown from Chien Hsing Road, turn left on Meiteh Street as soon as you reach the park, also on the left. The restaurant is about 80 meters down opposite the park.

 

 

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