Boiling Point is a Taiwanese hot pot restaurant located on Culver Dr. in Irvine. This restaurant doesn’t just offer a large pot to share with everyone in your party, but serves individual hot pots to everyone. With the choice from seven different hot pots, filled with different types of vegetables, seafood, and meats, customizing didn’t seem like a problem.
I was able to try a bit of three different hot pots. The Beef Hot Soup, Curry Fishball Hot Soup, and the Korean Kimchi Hot Soup. Boiling Point offers and spice scale from 1-6, which is very accommodating. Each hot pot was practically the same with cabbage, vermicelli, fishballs, fishcakes, tofu, and enoki. The only thing that seemed different were the addition of the ingredients that came in the name of the hot pot. The Kimchi hot pot was a bit on the sour side and only came with the one tiny clam that was promised in the description. There seemed to be an abundance of cabbage present in all of the hot pots. Very deceiving but I did enjoy the vermicelli and imitation crab in the hot pot. They absorbed the delicate flavor that the soup as a whole should have had.
But, contrary to the food, the decor of the restaurant was very pleasant. It was very sleek and hip. The waiters and waitresses were very friendly, but aren’t very helpful. If you want to try this restaurant out make sure you learn some Taiwanese; it seemed to me that the waitresses assumed that everyone understood the language.
Obviously, I found Boiling Point less than average, which is why i give it a 2.5 out of 5 stars. Try this place out if you would like and if your experience is vastly different from mine; Call Me. Pleasant eating… hopefully.
14140 Culver Dr
Irvine, CA 92606
