Rita Wong, senior research fellow at the Foundation of Chinese Dietary Culture, explains that after the mainland fell to the Communists, most of the mainland soldiers who followed the ROC government to Taiwan had no livelihoods, and many set up stalls to sell beef noodle soup.
中國飲食文化基金會資深研究員翁雲霞表示，大陸淪陷以後，許多外省阿兵哥隨政府來台，由於大多沒有謀生能力，因此就擺起攤子賣牛肉麵。