Forty years ago most people in Taiwan did not eat beef, because they looked on oxen as friends of man who toiled all day to till his fields. Beef noodle soup was brought to Taiwan by mainland Chinese after the island returned from Japanese to Chinese rule.
在四十年前，因為疼惜牛為人耕田、辛勤終日，大部分的台灣人不吃牛肉；隨著台灣光復，牛肉麵被「外省人」帶入台灣。