"Store Exploration Series"

Eel pasta is recognized as a delicacy in Tainan. Each restaurant has its own unique flavors and crispness of the eel. I heard that this restaurant in Ba San is on the list of many locals. (It turned out that the person who recommended me was from Hsinchu😂)

Crispy eel, paired with sweet and sour sauce and pasta, is a taste that many locals have grown up eating.
Tainan's eel pasta can be made either dry-fried or raw. The difference is that the raw version is more like eel pasta soup, with more thickening and a richer sweet-sour sauce.

At first I liked the salty yet sweet stir-fried dish, but later I found that dry stir-frying makes me more patient. Some stores’ seasonings are too sweet, so I choose dry stir-fry. For raw stir-fry, I like the store’s eel and pasta being stir-fried together, which makes the pasta more fragrant. Richer and more flavorful.

Eel pasta 💰80
The salty-sweet sauce, onions and eel are stir-fried together. The pasta is soft and tender, and the eel is delicious without any fishy smell~
(The pasta and eel are fried separately. Business is so good that I start with a large portion of eel.)

Sesame oil pork liver soup 💰90
The whole table is filled with the aroma of sesame oil as soon as it is served. The sesame oil soup contains more ingredients than pasta. In winter, drinking it will warm your whole body directly from the stomach. After drinking it, you will feel as comfortable as a bowl of soup.

⭕️ Air-conditioned
❌It is difficult to park the car

"As an eel pasta lover, it makes sense to eat eel pasta two days in a row."
As a student in Tainan, I eat all the time when I return to Tainan
The 12th stop of Tainan’s 400-year food and drink journey - Ba San Pasta

Basan Pasta is located on Minzu Road. In addition to eel pasta, it also sells flower pasta, as well as a variety of sesame oil offal series, such as pig heart, pork liver, kidney, etc.

There are seats both indoors and outdoors. The weather was so hot. I originally planned to go inside to enjoy the healing effects of the air-conditioning. Unexpectedly, the boss said, "It's cooler if you sit outside." It turns out there is no air-conditioning inside. 🥲

Stir-fried eel pasta $120
When it was served, I didn’t notice that the pasta was different from the Tainan eel pasta I’m used to eating. As soon as I ate it, I realized that the pasta they use at home is not the round pasta of the pot roast pasta, but another kind that is thinner and flatter. A type of pasta with a more obvious pink texture

There are 5 pieces of eel in total. Their eel is relatively small, but the fried onions and cabbage are quite delicious. The fried onions and cabbage are also very fragrant. Give it a try!

Their stir-fried eel pasta is also on the sweet side like Fusheng Snacks. Although I personally prefer saltier stir-fried eel pasta (such as Ajiang), because Basan’s pasta itself has added sugar. Stir-fry the spicy residue, it won't be too spicy, but it will enhance the taste. The more you eat, the more you eat it.

The small disadvantage is that the pasta is fried in oil, and you will want to wipe your mouth after almost every bite.

Overall, although it is still not in the top three of my favorite eel pasta restaurants in Tainan (currently Ah Jiang, Fulai, and Chengbian Zhenwei are still on the throne), I will be willing to visit again in the future, and there is no need to queue. Some points~ (Every time I visit Ajiang, I queue until I starve to death)