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Lin Taiwanese

Also known as David's Taiwanese, Lin Taiwanese is in Elmhurst and serves up a variety of interesting Taiwanese dishes. If you like blood and intestines, this is the place for you. I think of any Chinese place I've been to, it has the most blood-based dishes. It also has stinky tofu!

Ben and I ate here for lunch today. It was quite tasty, although we didn't eat any blood or stinky tofu.

We first got a spicy, salty smelt as an appetizer. It was good, but the fact that this one dishes required about 100 fish to die is not exactly pleasing.

I'm a sucker for stir-fried udon, which I first had in Hong Kong. This was a very good version, with crunchy vegetables and thick chewy noodles.

For our vegetable, we had "si gua", which is a type of Chinese squash. This was really delicious, but this dish almost always is.

Finally, Taiwanese sausage. Strangely, it comes with raw garlic. I'm usually not one to eat raw garlic, a trait I share with most of the human race. I did try a bit of the garlic with the sausage, which is how I imagine one is supposed to eat it. It was a nice combination, but I still felt the garlic was a bit too spicy.

Overall, a solid Taiwanese eatery. Nothing blew me away, but that's fine, because nothing was at all disappointing.