Lunch today was at a small sit in shop in Tienmu which specialises in handmade noodles. Hand made noodles have a delightfully chewy texture from the kneading process and are pulled by hand (of course). Like many places in Taiwan orders are placed by ticking a printed order sheet with your choices. All is not necessarily lost for the non Chinese reader though, quite often there will be pictures on the wall with the name of the dish next to it so all one has to do is match that with the order sheet.
Of course, one is pretty much doomed anyway if none of the ingredients in the pictured dish is recognised. In this case one has to follow the example of a guy from Byron Bay we met when waiting outside a sushi place in Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo some years back. When asked if he knew what to order, he simply replied "I'll just eat what the chef puts in front of me". (Thankfully for us, the shop had a laminated list which we pointed frantically at when we wanted a particular piece of sushi).
Hu bei duo jiao ban mian (hubei chopped chilli dried noodle) with chao shou (wontons) and a small coke for $NT100.
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