Eighty-three-year-old Mrs. Tsai Huang-mei recalls how in Lukang the meat from these old animals would be cut into large chunks and stewed for a very long time before being cut into slices and eaten with plain noodles. This differed from the custom, imported from the mainland, of serving the beef and noodles in soup.
八十四歲的蔡黃梅老太太說，在鹿港，她們都將這樣的老牛肉切大塊，鹵很長一段時間，再撈起切片配切仔麵吃，有別於由大陸傳進來湯湯水水的吃法。