在我某次的台中旅遊時，我特地去台中市歷史最悠久的臺中公園逛逛，公園佔地約32,889坪，逛了一圈後，有點餓了，也走累了，就打算去公園周邊找東西吃，結果找了半天，沒有幾家店有營業，只有一家店，店內的客人較多，但是有空位，看來我只能吃這家了。
店內沒甚麼裝潢，就幾張不銹鋼桌子，幾張不銹鋼椅子，菜單也很簡單，就只賣乾麵一種主食，大碗乾麵60元台幣，小碗乾麵40元台幣，剩下的就是各式湯品，像是豆腐湯、豬血湯、貢丸湯等，就是那種很樸實的家常小店，我看客人們幾乎都點個麵，加個湯，吃完就離開，我也點個小碗乾麵，試試味道。
麵條是川燙後的黃麵，加入豆芽菜，淋上特調醬汁跟辣椒醬，拌均勻後，麵條入口滑順，帶點肉燥跟油蔥的香氣，意外的好吃，聽人說，中部人吃乾麵一定要加辣椒醬，我也入境隨俗，特意加了很多辣椒醬，在拌勻來吃，這家店的辣椒醬偏甜不辣，所以，加很多，我也不覺得辣，而且越吃越涮嘴，我一開始真是小看它了，40元台幣一碗，也不算貴。
離開這家店後，很久我才被朋友告知，那天我吃的麵店是連續四年得到台中米其林必比登推薦美食之一，麵店是由老闆阿坤創辦，已經經營了超過五十年，現在傳到第三代繼續經營，哇！我隨便走走，就吃到一家不需要排隊的排隊名店，美食這種東西，見仁見智，下次經過時，我應該也不會特意去那家店吃，那家店我只覺得客人較多，外觀真的完全看不出來是名店。
On one of my trips to Taichung, I decided to visit Taichung Park, the oldest park in the city. The park covers about 32,889 ping (roughly 108,600 square meters). After walking around for a bit, I started feeling hungry and tired, so I figured I’d look for something to eat nearby. But after searching for a while, I realized that not many places were open. There was only one shop with customers inside, but there were still a few empty seats. Looked like I didn’t have much choice but to eat there.
The place had no fancy decorations—just a few stainless steel tables and chairs. The menu was super simple, with only one main dish: dry noodles. A large bowl was 60 NTD, and a small one was 40 NTD. Other than that, they only had soup options like tofu soup, pork blood soup, and meatball soup. It was just a no-frills, homey little shop. Most customers ordered a bowl of noodles with a soup, ate quickly, and left. I decided to try a small bowl of dry noodles to see how it tasted.
The noodles were yellow noodles, briefly blanched and mixed with bean sprouts, a special sauce, and chili sauce. After mixing it all together, the noodles were smooth and had a nice aroma from the minced pork and fried shallots. Surprisingly good! I’d heard that people in central Taiwan always add chili sauce to their dry noodles, so I followed the local custom and put in a lot of it. Turns out, their chili sauce was more on the sweet side and not really spicy, so even after adding a lot, it wasn’t overwhelming. In fact, the more I ate, the more addictive it became. I totally underestimated it at first—40 NTD for a bowl of noodles wasn’t bad at all.
It wasn’t until much later that a friend told me the noodle shop I ate at was actually a Michelin Bib Gourmand recommended spot for four years in a row! The shop was founded by a man named Ah-Kun over 50 years ago and is now run by the third generation. Wow, I just randomly stumbled upon a famous place with no lines. But honestly, food is really subjective. If I pass by again, I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to eat there. To me, it just looked like a regular noodle shop with a lot of customers—definitely didn’t seem like a Michelin-recommended place from the outside!
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