I've heard of 阿宗麵線 (Ah Zhong Mian Xian) for years and I'm finally trying it now. With their chilli (2.5 spoons for this small bowl), vinegar and fried garlic, it was an outstanding bowl. Smooth and slurpy with sour and heat, layered with a toasty garlic flavour. Cannot comment on how it'll be if those condiments were absent but I suspect I wouldn't be so much of a fan. Other than mee sua, there's only pig intestines in it.
Good thing the queue at 天天利 was only for dine in. Radish cake's pretty good. Finally got to try Taiwanese orh ah jian. Not a fan of the sauce and the gummy starchy batter.
台灣鹽酥雞 (Taiwan Popcorn Chicken King) came by way of recommendation. The variety was pretty overwhelming. Narrowed down to a bunch of stuff eventually.
Bean curd skin was a lot crunchier and dryer than I imagined. I expected only the exterior to be so but part of the insides were fried and crunchy as well. Don't like.
Small fried crabs. Tasteless crabs.
Deep fried octopus tentacle. Tasteless octopus tentacle. A bit too chewy.
The humble potato wedges turned out to be the best tasting of the lot we tried at Taiwan Popcorn Chicken King. They were adequately salted and tasted like potato wedges. 😬
Fried chicken was...just fried chicken. I'm at this point getting tired of the salt and pepper and five spice combination which seems to be everywhere.
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