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"On a rainy day I made a beeline for this no-fuss Taiwanese beef noodle soup joint that’s been around since the ’80s, where a sign reads, “No book or newspaper reading, please” — translation: get your noodles, eat, and go. Open only four hours a day, six days a week, the no-nonsense attitude extends to the food: the famed beef noodle soup is gloriously rich and comforting, with fistfuls of spinach and beef that melts on the tongue, but it was the spicy sesame sauce dry noodles that wowed me — satisfyingly bouncy strands slicked in a silky, nutty, heat-forward sesame sauce and piled with a mountain of sliced green onions that add an allium bite and refreshing lift. I’m already plotting a return for that winning bowl." - Eater Staff