Fool's Noodles (小南門福州傻瓜乾麵)

It has been more than a month since my last update and although I have a backlog of good things to write about, I just couldn't find the time and energy. We are very busy in church preparing for our annual nationwide church joint summer conference. I have to force myself with this one...

Last Sunday August 8 was Father's Day (爸爸節 or 'Pa-Pa Jie') in Taiwan. We didn't have any plans for special dinner since my kids are still too young to be treating their father... but they treated me with a song though. So thinking most restaurants are probably fully reserved that night, we decided to eat simple and went for our favorite fool's dry noodles (傻瓜乾麵 or 'sha gua gan mien')...


Yep, it is really called Fool's Noodles. There are many interpretations to why this noodle (from Fuzhou 1950's) is called by this name. They say only a fool will eat this kind of dry noodle by just adding sauce topped with chopped scallions. Well, I say only a fool father like me will eat a bowl of dry noodle during Father's Day... : )


Lots of side dish for you to choose while you wait for your noodles...


I took a plate of century egg and tofu (皮蛋豆腐)... the normal way to eat this is to smash and mix it up together.


The sweet and spicy dried small fish (小魚乾 or xiao-yu-gan) is becoming a favorite of my daughter. She probably can eat spicy food better than me. : )


Most customers would order the noodle together with their special soup (combination of fish ball, meat ball, and wonton) with egg...


You can prefer to break the egg yolk into the soup or you can swallow it... I prefer to swallow it. : )


The noodle is really simple. They just boiled it up and put chopped scallions on top... only a fool cannot prepare this.


But the secret to this noodle is the sauce... and you have three ways to flavor your noodles. First is by simply adding the fool's special mixed sauce of vinegar and soy sauce. You can put as much of the fool's sauce to reach your level of flavor. It is not pure soy sauce so don't worry. The second way is to add some chopped chili on top of the noodles which is spicy but not that spicy. And finally, the third way is also to add their fool's spicy sauce to make you really hot. : )


Which way did I choose to eat my fool's noodles? Add the fool's special sauce first...


And then add some chopped chili on top... I'm not a spicy eater but my wife convinced me that it was not that spicy so I gave it a try. Real good! = )


Their fried pork chop is also a must-try... you can ask our kids. : )


Just being able to eat together with my family is already a wonderful day for me...


Fool's Noodles is open from 6am in the morning till 11pm in the evening. People go here for breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, supper, and late night snack. My wife and I already tried brunch here. Foolish indeed! : )


Fool's Noodles 小南門福州傻瓜乾麵
台北市中正區延平南路153號1樓
MRT: Transfer from Ximen to Xiaonanmen Exit 2 (walk 5 minutes)
(捷運小南門站2號出口步行約5分鐘)
Tel:02-23116285
Opens 6am - 11pm