Eating Taiwan

[ 老農家越式小館 ]

地址: 300新竹市科學園路80號
營業時間: 11:00~14:00; 17:00~21:00
價位: 30元+
電話: 03 666 1998

Address: No.80, Kexueyuan Rd., East Dist., Hsinchu City 300
Hours: 11:00~14:00; 17:00~21:00
Phone: 03 666 1998

其實這家餐館大概已經列為全新竹都知道的美食了吧? 不過基於我的目的是要把今年暑假吃遍的都寫下來那麼就還是讓我帶過吧~~

This restaurant is probably already super famous within Hsinchu itself, but since I'm already typing it up, I'll just keep going with this post.

位址在園區龍山社區內，整條街都是餐廳，除了老農外我們也很常去吃韓一館(我真的很愛韓國料理啊!!!)。它外觀內部都蠻普通的，每次去都是一堆人。

It's in the Longshan neighborhood near a lot of other restaurants. There's quite a few beef noodle places, a Korean barbecue place our family often visits as well , a teppanyaki across the street, etc. 

The restaurant itself is pretty plain, but there's always a bunch of people (if we come when it's empty, it still fills up pretty soon, lol. There were a few times when we had to find other places to eat because there were so many customers.)

菜單，選擇沒有太多，不過也夠我們吃的。自我去年來好像默默漲價了...

我們來這裡通常都全家一起點生熟牛河粉，但是呢!! 我在美國吃多了，回來就一直想吃涼拌米粉 XD (其實美國也很多這個)

至於麵類的話，湯麵有分三四種。客人好像大都吃河粉，而且是那種粗條的，跟在美國吃的細米條不一樣。美國的河粉比較像粿條(還是根本就是粿條。)

The menu's only in Chinese, and there aren't too many choices, but it's quite enough for us to choose from. I don't do well with giant menus because I want to eat everything x_x.

We usually just get the normal beef pho (which is kind of like Pho number 7 in most Vietnamese places in America, except it uses thicker noodles.) You have a choice of thick rice, thin rice or egg noodles for all noodle soups. It was pretty hot that day though, and I'd missed eating Saigon street noodles, so I got that instead.

Apart from pho and other noodles, there's also small dishes like chicken salad to choose from, as well as Vietnamese braised pork rice and coconut mung bean mush if you're thirsty (my brother always gets that, although I'm not a big fan of the coconut...)

炸春捲，好吃!

很酥而且不油膩，跟外面一般春捲包的料不一樣，吃不出來是什麼，依稀看得到紅蘿蔔 (聽說有芋泥?? 哎呀連討厭芋泥的我都喜歡呢<3)

Fried spring rolls

These are pretty good! I always miss these when I'm in the States because I haven't found a place that sells spring rolls like these (there's a place in Greensboro that comes close, but not quite there yet.) They're really crisp without being overly oily, and I don't really know what's in them...? There's bits of carrots and I saw someone online say there's taro mush inside as well (I hate taro but it's so goooood here.)

生熟牛肉河粉

上桌時還是半生的，要把豆芽之類加進去用麵蓋住才會煮熟。

我很喜歡它們家的肉和湯頭 (其實以前超討厭來這家的可是好像到美國和東南亞人相處久了就很喜歡那個濃郁有點酸酸的味道XD)

Beef Pho

Looks just like your usual pho. I really like the soup base though; it's a little different from pho in America? A little more savoury, maybe, less aromatic, but it's something I miss. I used to really hate pho (and coming to this restaurant), but all that's changed after college since most of my friends really like it.

香茅烤肉涼拌米粉

呀~好大碗!

肉的味道跟熟悉的不太一樣，好吃歸好吃但我很想要那甜甜的BBQ滋味啊Q_Q 份量很夠的說。

吃完完全飽死。

Lemongrass Grilled Pork Rice Noodles

It's a pretty big bowl (and I didn't end up finishing all of it--there's this great thing about having a brother >:)) and they gave plenty of pork and vegetables. The meat does taste pretty different than what I'm used to (less sweet?). I kind of miss that barbecue flavor that comes with the meat, but it was pretty good nonetheless.

茄汁牛腩粿條

我爸點的，沒吃所以不知道味道XD

Tomato Beef Noodles

My dad ordered this ...... I didn't get a chance to taste it XD oh well. Sorry for the potato quality.

吃完想睡，天氣熱到我們接著跑到清大夜市去買冰XDDD外加紅豆餅

You really want to fall asleep in such hot weather......so we went to get some ice right after XD. There aren't any pictures, but we got lemon aiyu from a pretty famous grass jelly stand in the NTHU nightmarket. So good <3

[ 苗楊冬瓜仙草絲 (清大店) ]

地址: 300新竹市東區建功一路22號

電話: 03 572 3714

万丹紅豆餅就在對面。

15元一個有點貴，至少很大個吧而且爆漿ㄝ (可惜到這裡相機就沒電了所以沒拍到..............)

If you're Japanese, you might be more familiar with this type of confectionery as Imagawayaki (今川焼). The Taiwanese version is called variously as simply 'red bean cake' or 'wheel cake' (for its shape) and is slightly crisper (according to Wikipedia, anyway), and they're usually sold 5-20 NTD apiece depending on where you are. There used to be a stand selling these for 5 NTD down near the intersection near 50lan, but I haven't seen it in a while.

Anyway, these were pretty expensive at 15 NTD (~50 cents) a piece, but they were pretty big, so I guess that evens out? Slightly? There was a lot of custard in mine (you can get a couple of different flavors for these things - the most popular is red bean, but I love custard) but I don't have a picture since...the camera died right after this one. Oops.

以上~