Taipei City - A Han Thai 阿寒泰泰式傳統船麵專賣

Value for money: 6/10

Cleanliness: 6/10

Service: 6/10

Quality of food: 4/10

Overall: 5/10

My apologies for the quality of the photos, this is a backdated post from before I got a decent camera and used my phone.

This street is definitely a street you should know about in Taipei for food and drink.

There are lots of places crammed in, nextdoor to the thai restaurant is a drinks shop, for example. But it is a little confusing to look at because they basically look adjoined.

The menu:

What we ordered:

酸辣蔬菜 (MAMA 麵) 
suān là shū cài (MAMA miàn)
Hot and sour vegetables with MAMA noodles
$145

+ 套餐 (set)
脆皮炸豬皮
cuì pí zhà zhū pí 
Crispy pork skin

健康時蔬泰式花生椰醬
 jiàn kāng shí shū zuǒ tài shì huā shēng yē jiàng 
Vegetables with peanut and coconut dressing

椰子汁
yē zi zhī 
coconut water

If you are prone to teeth breaking or chipping, then avoid this crispy pig skin. However, if you are willing, it is pretty good. Not oily at all, and really quite tasty. 

The vegetables are just the same as the ones in the vegetable noodle dish, so if you are ordering a vegetable dish then don't bother with ordering this as your set side dish. The sauce is on the sweet side, but it is OK.

I enjoy instant noodles as much as the next person, and these ones are good. They're not special, just good.

You know when you crunch down on a piece of green bean and your teeth squeak a little? That's what all of these vegetables do when you crunch them. Disclaimer: I hate squeaky vegetables. In fact, I call green beans 'Squeaky Beans'. I try them whenever I am given them, however, I don't remember a time when I enjoyed eating them.

There's plenty of sauce in this dish, but it's just lacking something. It tastes like a shop bought sauce which is then poured over the top in copious amounts. I don't think it is lacking meat, I think it is just lacking effort.

Let's face it, if you are charging $145 for instant noodles that perhaps cost less than $20 in the shops, you expect something for your money. Unfortunately, you won't get it from here.


酸辣蔬菜 (冬粉)
suān là shū cài (dōng fěn )
Hot and sour vegetables with glass noodles
$145

Unfortunately, this plate is almost identical to the previous plate. The only difference: glass noodles replace the instant noodles.

I enjoy glass noodles and I think they can take on a little more flavour than other noodles. These noodles were alright, but I am afraid that the squeaky vegetables and mediocre sauce have already ruined the dish.

A Han Thai on FB

台北市大安區延吉街72號之16

No. 72-16, YanJi Street, DaAn District, Taipei City

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Taipei City - Uncles

Value for money: 3/10

Cleanliness: 3/10

Service: 3/10

Quality of food: 3/10

Overall: 3/10

Unfortunately, the experience was about as bad as it gets at UNCLES. I feel that a 3 is almost too nice, for the meal that we had. 

Instagram and Facebook have been blowing up recently about UNCLES and people have been raving about it, so maybe we hit it on a bad day, but it certainly didn't come across that way.

When you have decided what you want to order, you can press the button on the batton and the staff will come to get you. A good idea, for big restaurants. But, UNCLES isn't really that big and the light flashes all of 5 seconds before somebody is there, so I feel like it's just a waste.

Total price:

$850

:-(

This is the only rice option on the menu. Beneath the strips of crispy seaweed is the rice. The staff will mould the rice with the seaweed into little balls for you.

The rice was way too over cooked and mushy. Not enjoyable.

This was what we were most excited about, the giant squid!

It looks awesome. Deep fried squid tentacles and deep fried squid are served on top of a mildly spicy toppoki with egg, tofu skin and lots of cheese. 

Cheeeeeese

As impressive as it looks, the quality of the cheese wasn't great, at all. 

The tofu skin was one of the best bits.

The toppoki (rice cake) was alright, too. 

Look appetising? Not in the least. This greasy plate of squid was not enjoyable, either. Too greasy and it didn't taste fresh.

In perspective: This is how much we left of the main dish.

I stripped the squid of its batter in an attempt to eat the squid - I didn't eat the squid, either.

I would say that if you are looking for a Korean experience, then WAYO is light-years ahead of UNCLES in quality, value for money and overall experience. Next, for me, on my Korean list is Pocha.

UNCLES on Facebook

臺北市大安區光復南路260巷31號

No. 31, Lane 260, GuangFu South Road, DaAn District, Taipei City

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