Qin Beef Soup is a famous restaurant in Taiwan specializing in award winning beef soup. This type of beef soup is well known Taiwan cuisine in Tainan. The bowl is filled with freshly sliced beef first, then the boiling hot soup is poured on top of it to get the beef cooked. This keeps the beef tender and juicy. The soup is also flavoured with other ingredients. Many restaurants in Tainan offer this type of menu item with slightly different in taste.
Trying out the beef soup was a must do for us when we visit Tainan. We walked around Anping district and found Qin Beef Soup. It had a large advertisement and looked to be a well known shop and thus we decided to give this a try.
We first ordered a large bowl of beef soup to share among us. We also ordered a braised pork rice as we were hungry as well. The beef sup was ready rather quickly since they just had to pour the soup into the bowl. The soup was served in a metal bowl. There was a good amount of beef slices in there. The beef was not really in a bright pink colour and instead of was more of a light brown colour. It could be that the soup was hot enough to get the beef cooked. When we tasted the beef, it was extremely tender and probably the best beef soup we have ever had. The soup was extremely flavourful. It was not greasy at all. We really enjoyed the soup and the rice together.
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Since the soup got us really hot, we also ordered 2 plates of shaved ice. We got the watermelon shaved ice and the assorted bean shaved ice. The watermelon shaved ice just had watermelon chunks on it. The watermelon was not that good but the shaved ice with brown sugar was able to cool us off. The assorted bean shaved ice was mediocre and the beans seemed to be coming from canned food.
Qin Beef Soup definitely offers one of the best beef soup in Taiwan. We really recommend it to try. The shave ice however was not up to par. So definitely only try the beef soup and get shaved ice elsewhere.
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