Famous, delicious, pork chop rice in Tamsui, New Taipei City (Even Taiwanese love it)

Tamsui is a must visit site for many foreign tourists. Today, we will bring you to a popular Tamsui restaurant that is well known among visitors. Not only that,  hei dian (黑殿) restaurant is also famous among Taiwanese locals! Let's try this together
Address: 251新北市淡水區中正路一段62巷12號
Open hours: Everyday 11a.m. - 8p.m.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/darkpalacetaiwanese (Chinese)

After arriving at Tamsui MRT Station, turn left at the exit, cross a street, and you will see the restaurant right behind the locomotive (train head) in a little park. It is not located at the usual tourists filled promenade, but one street further inland. 

 
The store's sign is only written in Chinese, but is very visible and unique.

After you entered the restaurant, you may find your own seat (waiters won't escort you). There are more seats on the 2nd floor. The menu/order sheet is on wall. Please write down your order with the pencil given.

You will need to pay when you order. If you are sitting on the 2nd floor, you can pay at the cashier located also on the 2nd floor. Some food comes in big and small sizes. We ordered the food in the blue circles.

Next, you have to pick up your utensils near the cabinet. They only offer spoon and chopsticks (no forks, sorry). You may also pick up some hot sauce and other spices on your own.

1. dai gu zhu pai fan (帶骨豬排飯)
This bowl of pork chop rice not only has a big piece of pork chop , it also has pickled vegetable (suan cai酸菜), dried bean curd (dou gan豆干), soy egg (lu dan 滷蛋), and fried bean sauce (zha jiang炸醬). We finished the entire bowl in 15 minutes, despite it was big, because it was really tasty.

 

2. Old recipe pickled vegetable raman noodle with fried bean sauce (zu chuan suan cai zha jiang la mian 祖傳酸菜炸醬拉麵)
After you mix well the fried bean sauce with the ramen noodle, the noodle is absolutely delicious, fresh, and unique. The fried bean sauce is made with pork, and once eaten with dried bean curd and ramen noodle, this dish definitely lives up to your high expectation.

After we finished both dishes, the only disappointment was that both dishes were little too salty, and the restaurant didn't offer any water. But since there are many drink shops nearby, you can easily get a good Taiwanese drink before you go on browsing the rest of Tamsui.