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| - As soon as you enter, you're hit with the fragrance of dirty dish rag. No, not stinky tofu as people on Yelp think it is - this is definitely dirty dish rag and is the same smell from other Chinese restaurants that do not have stinky tofu. I saw the waitress wipe down the table with the same cloth she used to wipe the mouth of the soya sauce bottles.
This place used to be good, but it seems to have been sold to non-Taiwanese. How do I know? Well, they don't speak Cantonese in Taiwan. Second, the sign says knife-cut noodle, but their noodles are clearly squeezed through a spaghetti maker. The noodles aren't bad, but they just aren't authentically Taiwanese.
The beef and the broth is decent, though. Although, they put in waaay too much beef, waaay too much noodle and hardly any soup! We also ordered the shuijiao - the skin was so thick, like a rhinoceros hide. Even the crappy street stalls in Taiwan have better shuijiao. Also, they didn't have crushed garlic or sesame oil for the dipping sauce?!?! Not authentic at all. All I saw on the table were Canto-style condiments; nothing Taiwanese.
And the last straw? Cash only. Not even a debit machine. I had to walk to the plaza to withdraw money.
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