Kaohsiung restaurant is awarded top honors

All participants were divided into three categories: braised beef noodles, clear-broth stewed and creative styles. Champions of each category shared their tips of cooking delicious beef noodles.

The champions were Wang Hong-geng from the restaurant in Kaohsiung “Liu's Sour Cabbage Hot Pot” (東北劉家酸白菜火鍋店), Zhang Xue-lan from Taipei “Spicy Heaven Beef Noodle Soup” (麻辣天堂牛肉麵店) and Chen Yong-you from Tainan “Aniki Q-Sanuki Udon Noodles” (Ｑ老大日本讚岐烏龍麵).

Wang, the champion in the braised division said that the key to winning the contest is to use the right ingredients and be attentive to every cooking detail including timing for making the soup, the technique for stir-frying the beef and the recipe for the sauce mix. Wang said his hand-made sliced noodles used in the dish had won the hearts of many judges.

Zhang, winner of the clear-broth division and the only female contestant, came from Yunnan and is married to a Taiwanese husband.

The couple integrated Yunnan-style sauce with beef from Taiwan and seasoned the soup with very little salt to emphasize healthy eating.

　　The winner of the creative division, Chen Yong-you combined Korean stone pot with the local cuisine, combining unique sauce with Taiwanese, Japanese and Korean flavors and chewy seafood noodles and spa-boiled egg to create an innovative variation for beef noodle.

　　A total of 24 local restaurants listed as finalists in the contest provided their prized dishes at NT$50 per bowl during the two-day festival.

Worth of mention is Dabod Bagherzabeh, a native of Iran, won the third place in the stewed beef noodle category. His 12-year-old son helped him to prepare the dish.

The Taipei Beef Noodle Contest, now in its fifth year, drew large crowds on the two days it was held this past weekend at the Taipei City Hall square.

According to city officials, some beef noodle restaurants that won prizes in previous contests have opened branches in the United States, Canada and China.

All of the participating stores in this year's festival have pledged not to use U.S. ground beef or beef offal, citing mad cow disease concerns, the officials added.

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