After being the last person in the city to try Boiling Point Burnaby earlier this year (okay I may be exaggerating a little!), the fiance and I went to the Boiling Point on Main Street in Vancouver. I usually go to the one by Metrotown which is always crazy busy, so I wanted to see how this location was.

First off, the Main Street location was a lot calmer. Boiling Point replaced a Taiwanese restaurant called Shang Pin which I wrote about, and ended up closing down a mere few months later.

Tea: Since we came at lunch, we each had a free iced tea! You can pick between green or black. Both are really sweetened and reminded me of McDonald’s sweet tea.

Beef hot pot: I ordered my go-to, the beef hot pot. It was delicious! I love the satay broth. It came with a lot of veggies, tofu, tomato, corn, cuttlefish and more.

Tonkotsu miso hot pot: The fiance ordered the tonkotsu miso with level 4/5 spice. He didn’t find it spicy at all though, and neither did I. There was a side of sauces so he ended up using lots of the hot sauce to spice it up.

Lack of spiciness aside, he enjoyed the flavour of the broth. It came with chashu pork, shrimp, fish filet, udon, tomato, corn, raw egg, and more. He was very full from his hot pot at the end of the meal.

We both enjoyed our visit to Boiling Point and would definitely come back. Compared to the Metrotown/Burnaby location, it is a lot less hectic here with a shorter line.

The quality and taste is both the same though, so I would go back to either depending on which location was more convenient that particular day.

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Myst has been one of my go-to restaurants if I am craving Taiwanese food for the past year. The boyfriend and I come here often, I would say at least once every 1-2 months? Since my first post, we have tried many other dishes and brought my mom here, so I thought I would do a revisit post for other dishes we have tried.

The menu at Myst is pretty big, spanning many pages! If you’re a fan of Taiwanese/Chinese/Hong Kong style food, there is definitely something for your appetite.

Sesame Pork Sauce With Noodle: After looking at their sprawling menu, my mom narrowed it down to this dish with thick noodle. It was not a soup based noodle, but rather a saucy sesame noodle dish. It isn’t something that we would normally order, but she enjoyed it nonetheless.

The sesame sauce was quite delicious, as was the minced pork. The portion was very filling too.
Plain laksa noodle with Taiwanese peppery chicken: Although the boyfriend ordered the fried chicken during our first visit, he liked it so much that he ordered it again! This time, he tried the laksa noodle soup, which he enjoyed.

It was a rich broth bursting with flavour. I had a sip of it and I could definitely taste hints of garlic in there. There wasn’t much meat in it which is probably why they called it the ‘plain’ laksa noodle. But the big portion of delicious, fresh, crunchy Taiwanese chicken nuggets made up for it.

The price point of these noodles was about the same as my mom’s, making this one the better value!
Beef roll: We were all curious as to how the beef roll tasted here, but unfortunately we were disappointed with it. The dough was a bit too thick for our liking.

Also, there wasn’t enough sauce so it was quite dry. There could have been more beef inside too. The only good thing about this was the fresh green onion.

Chicken nuggets with red curry: Another dish we tried was the curry. We weren’t sure what to expect, but we were actually pleasantly surprised with the taste. The curry was fragrant and creamy. The combination of curry and chicken nuggets was something we haven’t had before, but both tasted well.

Sesame pork sauce noodles with chicken nuggets: The boyfriend went with a combo where you pick your noodles and side dish. Since the noodles were covered with sesame sauce, it was quite filling! There was a very generous portion of piping hot, juicy Taiwanese chicken nuggets.

Wonton soup with noodles: I wasn’t feeling like my usual Taiwanese beef noodles that day, but still wanted some sort of noodle soup. The broth was quite clear and tasteless, which was disappointing. It was also very oily… so I was not that impressed with their soup.

However, the wontons were delicious. They had that homemade feel and taste to it. There was a lot of pork and chopped veggies inside. I found them quite comforting and I wouldn’t mind getting them again even though the soup was not good.

Green onion sauce noodles with deep fried nuggets: On our most recent visit, the boyfriend decided to try the green onion sauce. It came with a generous amount of pan fried green onions, which were very fragrant. The sauce was similar to soya sauce which you stir with the noodles, as opposed to noodle soup. He found it alright, not his first choice.

Yay!