A completely naturalized dish Lu Yao-tung, who has written on the subject of beef noodle soup, mentions that the first beef noodle soup stands in Taipei back in the 1950s were under the arcades of the old Paokung Cinema and of Nanyang Street, but they have long since disappeared.
曾以牛肉麵為主題寫文章的逯耀東提到，民國四○年代，最早台北的牛肉麵攤，是在老的寶宮戲院及南陽街走廊下，不過現在已經消聲匿跡。