Liao Jia Beef Noodle Restaurant

Wow! The beef noodles were SO good. Noodles were chewy, broth deep favoured, beef tender, with generous portion of spinach. The sides we ordered were also very yummy, especially the beancurd. Long queue. Had to wait almost an hour. Very systematic and effective service. Was worth the wait.

This is the best “street food type” of noodle soup I tasted in Taipei! The place is packed with people - so go earlier. Reasonable price! Prepare to serve yourself. I revisited the restaurant and found so many people waited just when the store open! Soup is the best in town! All the food including the beef noddle soup, and appetizers are like homemade Mom’s taste! Highly recommend! When I compared the photos I took years ago and now, the taste has maintained the original flavor. If you go about 15 mins before 10am, the line should be short! Otherwise, the wait is about 20-30 minutes.

LOVE their beef noodles! The soup was delicious and beef was just tender enough n flavourful! If you enjoy the small portion of side dishes, u should try it. I queued for around 20mins, and the beef noodle was sold before 1:30pm. So if u wanna get a taste of it, don’t be too late for it

We reach just 10mins past their opening hours. By then, the first batch of diners had already gone in, so we had to queue 30mins. For tourist, here is their SOP: 1 queue outside to dine in or approach staff directly for takeout. 2 staff will approach you to write down how many bowls of beef noodles. Don’t tell them your side dishes order here. 3 wait patiently to be ushered in 4 queue at side dish counter to order your side dishes while waiting for your beef noodles. It takes around 5-10mins for your noodles to reach. Please note that this is 清炖牛肉, not 红烧牛肉 that is traditionally braised in chili bean paste to give a unique red colour to broth. This soup is on the mild side, for people who enjoys simple hearty soup. If you want more oomph, add in their chili sauce (it is spicy!) I personally like this type of beef noodles (akin to clear broth in pho) but my partner doesn’t. Side dishes: we enjoyed the beef tripe and tendon. Both are very tender which reflected hours of braising it. We didn’t add any sauce on it except for chili sauce at the side. Locals prefer to add soy bean paste over their bean curd which we find it a little too salty for our liking. The pickled cabbage is ok. It is a pretty decent bowl of beef noodles. I wouldn’t travel down specially for it. Personally, I would have liked it better if there is more Chinese herbs being used to add another dimension to the broth.

This shop ties itself to Taiwan during the colonial era closely. I didn’t go there just because it received a Michelin star, but because I wanted to experience the taste of history and Taiwanese local food. I found that their soup (without beef) is a must-try. The staff are skillful in cutting Dougan. It's expensive, but it's one of the beef noodle shops that serves delicious beef soup in Taipei. Anyway, the shop is so small, hard to move inside. Always sold out so fast. Open not many hrs.

This is my new favorite beef noodle restaurant in Taipei. The fact that their broth is light in color but intense in flavor means that they the flavor is not added by just putting soy sauce.

Authentic + family style beef noodle restaurant. Use Taiwanese beef🌟 Excellent beef broth- thick taste with rich in flavor. Noodle was perfectly cooked (taste chewy till my last bites). There’re self serve sauce carts, I’ve added x2 different spicy sauces and pickled cabbage into my beef soup after a couple sips of original soup- either way are delicious! So as side dishes, especially the well marinated Taiwanese kimchi, the sweet and sour taste gave me another leveled up of a fantastic flavor experience! 服務人員說他們收三倍卷喔(The restaurant accepts stimulus vouchers)! 🙂

It’s not the red 紅燒 type of beef noodles. It is a 清湯 beef noodle, meaning soy sauce isn’t the dominant flavour. I’d have to say that the beef quality isn’t the best, not all pieces are tender, so next time I would opt for the soup and noodle version. The soup has an incredibly beefy taste, it is deep and meaty and incredibly warming. The grease that forms on top is not cloying, it is a plus. It’s just an intense bowl of beef stock with some sweetness and the taste of spices. Some might not enjoy the floury taste of the noodles, but the texture definitely pairs well with the soup. Remember to get the 豆乾 (stewed tofu) it is wonderfully porous and the lady cuts them super thin and dunks it in a soup/sauce before plating. Porous=retains more flavour, more holes for sauce and soup! Really recommend this place if you want a 清湯牛肉麵 but don’t come here expecting a 紅燒牛肉麵!