Chongqing Hot and Spicy noodle ( 酸辣粉suān là fěn)
Taiwan is known for its local night markets and delicious local booth food. Today, I’d like to introduce one of my favorite foods — hot and sour noodle (I no sure its correct English name) 酸辣粉。
Hot and sour noodle is one of the cuisines from Chongqing where is famous for its spicy spices and hot cuisines. The most common noodle we have known is made from flour and looked like white or yellow threads. However, the hot and sour noodle is made from tapioca flour so that it looks more like crystal and thick, which tasted chewier and slipperier than normal noodled. The flavor of Hot and sour noodle is sour, tongue-numbing and spicy due to it seasoned with vinegar, Chongquing chili, and pepper of Sichuan. The noodle could be eaten in a drained way or with soup. It would be a good choice for those who love spicy food, especially, in chilly winter.
When it comes to Chongquing Hot and Sour noodle, there is a store I would like to recommend near MRT DaPingLin station in New Taipei City, called “八哥酸辣粉”（bā gē suān là fěn).
It is a little booth with a few tables. The point is that you can get a large bowl of hot and sour noodle with a friendly price. The noodle is not only tasty but also with plentiful ingredients including braised pork intestines, pork large intestines, braised duck blood jelly, tofu, vegetables, and peanuts.
The duck blood jelly is braised until the source absorbed into the duck blood so that you could taste juicy outflow of dip from blood jelly when you bite it.
The pork intestines are braised in the spices sauce till the intestines become brown and springy.
You also smell the Chinese spice scent and enjoy the tongue-numbing from peppers of Sichuan. The store location is convenient to get there. You could reach it as follow address:
№55, Dafeng Rd., Xindian Dist., New Taipei City 231, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
