[食記] N2 Bar & Eatery/ 恩菟輕食

Happy Easter!!! Today is Easter, although I'm an atheist but not a Christian, I still think I should spend some times with my friends and celebrate it!! We decide to celebrate it out of Hsinchu downtown, because its always crowded in downtown, so here we are ''N2''!! 

復活節快樂!!! 今天是復活節，也就是慶祝耶穌復活的日子，雖然我不是基督徒，但是自從去年公司裡的老美同事John送了我一個Easter basket，就覺得不慶祝一下好像怪怪的，所以我們決定去''恩菟''吃吃飯，聊聊天，感受一下這個溫馨和快樂的節日!!

N2

''N2'' is more like a bar but combine with the western food together, there are only around 30 seats here, so make sure that you've called and reserved before you get here. The people in this place speak English, and the menu is both in Chinese and English,  so should be ok when you order the food. :)
其實恩菟比較像是結合了bar跟食物的餐廳，用餐時間後，燈光變暗後就更像是bar了。餐廳裡大約有30席的座位，所以如果要到恩菟用餐前，記得先撥個電話預約或是詢問有沒有位子喔。:)

N2

These are each page of the menu in N2, they've separated the liquor and food menu, and of course they have some soft drinks too! Also, if you're a vegetarian, you don't have to worry when your friends choose to dine here, 'cause N2 has provided some vegetarian food like pizza, sandwiches and spaghetti too!
以下是恩菟的菜單，他們其實已經把酒水單跟菜單分開了，不過不喝酒的人還是有一些茶、咖啡、果汁、或是氣泡飲料可作選擇。而且，恩菟還有提供素食喔，讓吃素的朋友也可以來這裡享用一些不一樣的餐點。

Menu in N2

Starters and Snacks

House special and Vegetarian

Pizzas, Salads, and Sandwiches

alcohols

Cocktail and soft drinks 

Before they serve your meals, they will bring some seasoning up, ketchup, Tabasco, salt and vinegar. The bottle of ketchup is really cute, it's tomato!!!
在用餐之前，會先送上蕃茄醬，Tabasco辣醬，鹽巴，還有醋，聽說醋是蜂蜜醋，加在沙拉一起拌著吃，還不錯囉。而蕃茄醬的罐子真的很可愛，因為它就是一顆番茄呀!!

ketchup, Tobasco, salt and vinegar

We've ordered the Fish Tacos, Homemade meat pie, Texas chili and the Sausages with mashed potatoes.

Different dishes has different side dish, for example; the fish fingers has rice, cheese, burritos,salsa sauce, salad and wasabi myao; meat pie served with fries and salad; Texas chili with rice, cheese, chili sauce, burritos and salad; and sausages served with fries, mashed potatoes and salad. That is really a lot of food for each plate!!! I was super full last night!!! :))     

我們點了美式魚柳，英式洋蔥肉派，德州辣醬飯，還有風味腸和薯泥。除了每一種餐點都有沙拉之外，不同的餐點，都會附上不同的附餐，像魚柳就會配上飯、沙沙醬、芥末美奶滋、起司，還有墨西哥餅皮讓你可以包在裡面捲著吃。洋蔥肉派附上薯條，而德州辣醬飯就附上了起司、飯墨西哥餅皮、沙沙醬、飯。風味腸則是搭配了薯泥淋上特製醬汁以及薯條。

不一樣的附餐讓每一份餐點更加特別呢!! :))

Fish tacos

Fish tacos

British homemade meat pie

You can have several kinds of combinations with the rice or burritos, and fish fingers are good with the Wasabi mayo. Also I gotta say that I love the sauce with the sausages, fries and mashed potatoes, but three sausages are really a lot for me.

每樣餐點的分量都很多，而且因為它的附餐都不同，所以建議可以跟朋友點不一樣的餐，在share著吃，就可以吃到不一樣的東西喔!! :))

  

Texas chili sauce with rice and burritos

3 veal sausages with mashed potatoes and fries

In N2, the owner/chef is British, but the food on the menu here, seems combined with American, Mexican Taiwanese and British food together, that is quite special and unique, 'cause normally you can only get one or two different styles in a same place and  they don't charge any service fees. Next time if you're going to have a good meal with friends or celebrate something, maybe you can make a phone call and reserve the seats here. :)
在恩菟這裡，雖然老闆/廚師是英國人，但是這裡的食物卻是有很多不同的文化，美式、墨式、台式、英式。通常我們去一家餐廳，大約只會吃到一種或是兩種不同文化的餐點，在這邊的話，人多可以點一些不一樣的餐點一起享用，而且恩菟不收10%服務費。 下次如果您也想跟朋友吃吃飯、慶祝節日，或許這裡是不錯的選擇喔!!


Happy Easter EVERYBODY!!!!!
祝大家復活節快樂!!!!










Here's N2 Bar's contact info,
TEL: 03-577-6828
No.14 Jieshou Rd, Dong District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
(close to Royal Hotel and Science park)
新竹市介壽路14號(老爺酒店旁)

[食記] Have Fun 198 Hotpot Restaurant/ 趣味一下198吃到飽火鍋店

Have Fun 198 is a very cheap hotpot place, and you can grab whatever you wanna eat here. Only NT$ 198, NO charge service fees, and there is a parking lot just across the street, very convenient but more like a family hot pot place, so you would probably need to expect a little bit noise here. 

趣味一下吃到飽火鍋店，算是一間比較家庭式的火鍋店，因為他的價格就是198元，而且不加一成服務費，還讓你吃到飽，所以很適合一家大小一起揪去吃!! 而且在趣味一下的對面就有一個停車場，開車的朋友也相當方便!!

Have Fun 198 hotpot restaurant

In here, there are four flavors of hotpot that you can choose to have, they are Japanese seaweed(which is original), spicy, pickled cabbage with pork and Korean Kim-Chi hotpot. What I recommend is pickled cabbage w/ pork or spicy hot pot. These two are what we  would usually order.
趣味一下提供了4種不一樣的湯頭，讓大家來作選擇。 其中有日式高湯、麻辣、酸菜白肉、還有韓式泡菜。湯頭會稍為清淡，但是最後卻會因為放了很多的食材進去煮了之後，而變得鮮甜呢!!

Menu-four kinds of flavors

This is the pickled cabbage w/ pork hotpot, it tastes a little bit sour and makes the meat tender, and the cabbage is very crunch, basically it tastes just like Kim-Chi but not spicy.

這是酸菜白肉鍋，清脆的酸菜和微酸的口感，讓肉吃起來更鮮嫩不膩喔!! 如果沒有吃過酸菜白肉鍋的朋友們，其實他的口感就有點像是不辣的韓式泡菜，但白菜更脆一點囉!!

Pickled cabbages w/ pork hotpot

Spicy Hotpot

They provide lots of Hotpot ingredients(means everything you can put into the hotpot, also some meat balls, or tofu,vegs etc...), and different kinds of meat, like pork, beef, chicken, lamp and seafood.
趣味一下的食材共分為三區，火鍋料區，肉類區，還有蔬菜區。完全採於自助式的用餐方式，假日時人潮眾多，工作人員也會一直把食材補滿，方便客人夾取。

Hotpot ingredients 

lots kinds of meats

This is their sauce area, you can design your own sauce here. I always have satay, green onion, ground chilies and soy bean sauce together, they're good with anything that I cook in the hotpot. Oh! they have the sesame sauce, its quite special. Don't forget to try it or make your own sauce before you eat your hotpot!!
這是趣味一下的醬料區，蔥每次都會補的很滿又新鮮!!不像有的店家蔥都不補滿，或是蔥都已經看起來乾扁扁的了。順帶一提，他這裡還有芝麻醬，跟肉品一起搭配著吃，味道更香!!

Sauces

my sauce with a little bit sesame sauce

Except those food above, they have Dim Sum, Braised Pork rice, Mushroom chicken soup and spicy duck's blood (it taste tenderer than pig's). If you've ordered the spicy hotpot, my recommendation is adding some duck's blood into the hotpot!!
除了以上介紹的火鍋與食材，他們還有一個小小的熟食區，提供了小籠湯包、白飯、滷肉、還有麻辣鴨血，有點麻辣鍋的朋友們，別忘記來熟食區裝取麻辣鴨血，加進湯鍋裡頭，讓你的麻辣鍋更加豐富!!

supplies from 12pm to 10:30pm

Dim-Sum

Braised pork, spicy duck's blood and  mushroom chicken soup

Braised pork rice

Mushroom chicken soup

Spicy duck's blood

Don't forget to get some fruits and ice cream after you finished your hotpot. Sometimes they change the different kind of fruit, but what we had that day is watermelon and orange. The four flavors of ice creams are taro, mango, vanilla, chocolate.
吃飽後，別忘了飯後水果+冰淇淋，讓你的午餐或晚餐劃下一個美好的句點!!

Watermelon and orange

Ice cream

I think everything in Hsinchu area is getting more and more expensive because the Hsinchu science park, so it's not easy to find a place that charge so cheap, and you can have whatever you want in the restaurant, also  no charge any service fee. It only cost you NT$198, if you're really really hungry just come to this place then, I'm sure that your stomach will get well satisfied :)
在新竹地區科學園區的加持之下，真的很難找到已這麼便宜的價格，提供這麼多食物的餐廳了!! 下次肚子很餓的時候，別忘了來趣味一下，讓自己省了荷包還能吃得飽飽飽唷!!

Here is  Have Fun 198 Hotpot restaurant's contact info,
TEL: 03-5165-978(Hsinchu), 11am-11pm
No. 61 Zhongxiao Rd, Dong District, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
新竹市東區忠孝路61號

[食記] Jhu-Chang Sesame Oil Chicken Soup/ 竹昌麻油雞

The food in this place ''Jhu-Chang Sesame Oil Chicken Soup'' are Taiwanese traditional food. We always eat it in the cold weather, because Taiwanese believe that ''Sesame Oil'' is really good for human body, in traditional Chinese medical science sesame can nourish the five internal organs, strong your bones and muscles, lubricating your stomach, also help you to grow hair and make your hair darker. (Although I don't know does it make your hair darker even if your hair is blond :P ) It's a good food in general anyway! Everything that you order will cook with sesame oil!!

麻油雞，是我們從小到大再熟悉不過的補湯之一!! 冬天來了，麻油雞。做月子，麻油雞。吃火鍋，麻油雞。大小病初癒，麻油雞。可見麻油雞真的很重要呀!! 麻油雞如此重要的原因之一，是芝麻所榨成的麻油，以中醫的方向去看，性平味甘，補中益氣，還能讓您保持一頭烏黑頭髮，而以科學的觀點來說，則是富有維生素 鐵、鎂、錳、銅、鈣喔!!

Jhu-Chang Sesame Oil Chicken Soup

This is the menu of Jhu-Chang, they have fried chicken kidney, fried chicken balls, sesame oil kidney soup, sesame oil pig heart soup, sesame oil chicken soup, sesame pig liver, vegs with sesame oil, Chinese vermicelli with sesame oil and white rice. Everything is with the sesame oil, except the white rice.

這是竹昌麻油雞的菜單，我們當天點了麻油麵線、燙青菜、麻油雞、麻油豬心湯。都是很經典的麻油系列湯品，那天過去用餐是消夜時間，所以就沒點雙腰或雞佛那麼補的東西了，有點可惜。

Menu

Chinese vermicelli with sesame oil

Vegs with S.O.

They put lots of meats, and pig's heart into the soup, which is very kind I think. Compare with the other store that sells the same stuff, Jhu-chang's soup has more ingredients!! And something worth to mention here, that is their attitude. We were four people there, and each of us ordered the soup, but we only ordered one Chinese vermicelli, and when the boss of Jhu-chang found this, he wants to offer us two plates of the vermicelli, we were extremely flattered!! We didn't take what he offered but we truly appreciate, and before we left the store, we ask them for a plastic bag to pack the bones and rest of meats back for the dogs, the boss wants to add more soup into the bag. How generous and nice he is!!! I definitely will visit this store soon!!
竹昌的湯，裡頭的料都超多的!!! 雞肉燉的軟爛帶一點嚼勁，不會太柴，豬心則是烹煮得恰恰好，口感Q彈而不老。而且老闆的人就跟他的湯一樣，海派呀!! 當天我們是4個人前往用餐，點了四碗湯，跟一碗麵線，一盤青菜，這樣的分量以消夜來說，算是剛剛好! 但是老闆發現我們四人在瓜分那碗麵線的時候，竟然跟我們說他要再送我們兩碗麵線，怕我們吃不夠??!! 天啊，我們真是受寵若驚呀!! 最後老闆的好意我們心領，但後來當我們要打包一些骨頭還有雞肉回去給狗狗吃的時候，老闆還一直說要幫我們加湯，老闆你人真好呀，超感動的!! 這就是台灣人可愛的地方。 :)

S.O chicken soup

S.O. pig's heart soup

S.O. pig's heart soup with Chinese vermicelli

Next time if you are around this area or Hsinchu downtown, don't forget to drop by Jhu-Chang, and taste this Taiwanese traditional soup with sesame oil, if you're on a rush for lunch time, you may just call them before you go there, they do take out too.
下次如果你到了北門街，或是城隍廟、市區附近，別忘了到竹昌點碗熱呼呼的麻油湯品，好好的品嚐一下，順便滋補一下身體喔!!! 另外他們也有外帶的服務喔!!!

Here is Jhu-Chang's contact info,
TEL:0989-742558(Beimen street) Noon to midnight.
No. 55, Beimen St, Bei District, Hsinchu City
營業時間約是中午到午夜2點左右

[食記] JhuDong Fried Spareribs Noodle Soup/竹東排骨酥麵

Today I am going to present you ''Deep Fried Spareribs Noodle Soup'', any idea about it?? It's basically combine the deep fried spareribs and noodle soup. Deep fried the spareribs just make the meat tender, it has the different texture compare with the regular noodle soup, that's why you need to stop by and give it a try!
今天要介紹的是竹東人家喻戶曉的竹東排骨酥麵!!目前除了竹東本店外(竹東菜市場旁)，新竹市的中正路上也開了一間分店喔，想吃排骨酥麵，不用再跑去竹東啦!!

Deep Fried Spareribs Noodle Store

Here is the Menu of JhuDong Fried Spareribs Noodle Soup, they have 4 kinds of noodle, and they have the meat ball soups, dumplings, also they have the braised side dish, you can pick what you want into the plate, they will chop and hit them up for you. There is a hint, don't forget to add some chili oil on the braised food :)

 以下就是他們的菜單，除了有肉圓、飯的選擇之外，總共有四種不同的麵喔。另外也有各式各樣的滷味,喜歡吃辣的人，建議可以加辣油一起吃喔!!

Menu

There are lots of side dish that you can order, they have deep fried vegs, dried tofu, pig's ears and intestines, braised seaweeds, deep fried pork, eggs, cow's stomach. 
這裡的滷味還蠻多種的，除了滷味的部分之外，也有紅糟肉或是像以下這種蔬菜炸的天婦羅喔。

 Deep Fried  Crispy   Vegs

Braised food

Braised Food

Sauces

And these are what we ordered, lots of braised food as our side dish, and Spareribs Noodle Soup, Spareribs Noodle(which is with out soup), there are probably 4-5 pieces of taros and spareribs. The Taros are so soft, they can easily just melt in your soup or your mouth, gotta be careful when you pick them up with the chopsticks, and the spareribs are sweet and perfectly match with the soup and noodle. This is just like a better version of Taiwanese noodle soup!

我們那天點了有素雞、粉腸、鴨胗、豆皮，點完就這麼大一盤了!! 除了鴨胗的口感不是很合我們的意之外，其他都算尚可，還不錯，但還是建議要淋點辣油囉!! 每一碗麵裡大概都有4-5塊的芋頭和排骨，芋頭軟爛入口即化，排骨香甜跟湯麵充分的融合，跟一般的湯麵比起來，排骨酥麵的口感算是比較多重呀!!

What we ordered 

The Pig's Intestines

Spareribs Noodle Soup

Sparerib

Taro

Spareribs Noodle (no soup)

Here they provide the take out service, so if you're on a rush, you can just come here and order some noodle to take out, they will separate the noodle and soup for you, to prevent the noodle gets too soft and still have the good texture.

他們也提供外帶服務喔，外帶時會將湯和麵分開包裝，以避免麵條過於軟爛，遺失了麵條應有的口感喔!!

They have two JhuDong Fried Spareribs Noodle stores, one is in JhuDong, and the other one is this one on Zongzheng Rd in Hsinchu city.

I've been to these two couple times, I really like that one in Hsinchu city, every time I can easily finish it, 'cause it's tasty, but I don't really like the JhuDong one, I think the flavor has lots of differents, so I think I will still choose that one in Hsinchu to  have this yum spareribs noodle soup! :)

他們目前有兩家店，一家在竹東，另一家在新竹市的中正路上，我其實本身兩家都去過，但我覺得兩家店的口味不大一樣，我個人比較喜歡新竹市區這家的，因為竹東本店的麵每次總讓我覺得有點膩口，不過口味的部分就見人見志囉! :)

Here's JhuDong Fried Spareribs Noodle Store contact info,

TEL:03-5233678(Hsinchu), 11am-10pm, Tue.-Sun.

No. 161, Zhōngzhèng Rd, Bei District, Hsinchu City, 300

新竹市中正路161號,營業時間早上11點至晚上10點，週一公休。