Food and Service are pretty good in this Arcadia location. Gets really busy lunch and dinner. Bring a sweater b/c AC is always on full blast. Once u start eating, you'll warm up and likely reason for the AC. The 4 of my go to Hot Pots are: #1 House special #3 Kimchi #4 Beef #5 Lamb You can support Hype Coffee, a rare to find local coffee shop across the street while you wait. read more

It's a total rip-off. $17.49 for an order - nothing that looks like the picture on the menu online. Prices have gone up but not like robbery. Big disappointment on portion and taste! Will never order again. read more

Not my favorite type of hot pot, but not bad. I understand it's called "hot pot" and the restaurant is named BOILING POINT, but In my opinion, this was way too hot! I'm not a vacuum when I eat, but I hate having to wait for my food to cool down in between bites. I become impatient and the result is always a burnt tongue and a bad attitude by the end of the meal. For a party of 8, our wait was well over an hour. I would definitely not recommend this place for groups larger than 4. We had to split our party because the place is just not designed to accommodate large parties. The Japanese Miso is a safe choice. Literally tastes like Miso with various meats and veggies thrown in. If you don't like that stinky tofu taste, I wouldn't recommend the Special. The Beef is a good choice. Be warned: their spicy is pretty freakin spicy. I would stick to MILD if you want medium spicy. Free green or black tea during lunch. I ordered an additional Honey Milk Green Tea and it was REALLY good. All their teas were very well made. I'd come back just for the teas. The service was standard, but the girl that brought over my meal spilled HOT soup ALL OVER the table, drink, sauces, and napkins and didn't feel the need to acknowledge it. Luckily nothing got on me, but it's way to cramped to be maneuvering with boiling hot contraptions like that. I wouldn't bring little kids here for that experience. Overall, the food itself wasn't bad, but just not the most comfortable way of enjoying hot pot. read more

I waited for over an hour outside in the rain for this place!! But it was worth it!! It's a little more cramped than the Irvine location and at this location, you actually check your orders on the little sheet they give you. The service is not that good. The waiters don't really pay attention to you, but they do give you your food quickly at least! We waited forever but as soon as we were seated, the waitress came to get our sheet and orders and the food followed in minutes. Thanks to the yummy hot pot, I think it's worth the forever wait and bad service. When you have good food who cares?! And the lunch special is great. Pretty cheap considering you get a whole hot pot, rice, and a tea drink. :) read more

This one is much better than the Monterey Park one!! There is definitely a wait after 6pm still though -- get there before 5 and there are only a few guests in there. They have new items.. Their taiwanese, thai, and japanese hot pots -- super sized. The Taiwanese one is served VERY SPICY only. For a little girl like me, a regular size is enough and medium spicy is the right kick for me. We all ordered different items and when our pots came out, the items were fresh and well cooked (not like other BP where it looks like items have been sitting around). I loved my signature pot and enjoyed a taste of the Japanese and Veggie one. I think, the Japanese one can be skipped, though -- not a fan of the sweeter broth. We tried out their mango shaved ice.. it's too sweet for my liking. Go to Tasty to Go just a block ahead for a better option (and more for your money!). Lots of parking on the streets! read more

Huge variety of milk teas/beverages, delicious bubbly hot pot, sauce bar AND shaved snow? What more can one ask for in one restaurant? I could stay here for hours, and that I did. The variety of milk tea is huge! Different ones I don't normally see too including hokkaido milk tea and my usual favs: lavender and jasmine. There's only a handful of hot pots to choose from including stinky tofu, kimchee, vegetarian, lamb, curry fish ball and spicy beef. Each comes w/rice or vermicelli noodles for around $10 for dinner. I got the spicy beef mild and oh boy did that thing have a kick to it! I'd recommend getting rice since I think the dish already comes w/vermicelli noodles. Plus the portion you get is pretty teeny tiny and a nice hot bowl of rice goes perfect w/hot pot anyway. The dish comes bubbly hot set atop it's own flame (careful that thing can touch your hand while you eat!) so it stays delicious and till the last bite. Variety of veggies and extras is pretty good which includes: cabbage, enoki mushrooms, two diff kinds of fish cakes, vermicelli noodles, fish balls, imitation crab, etc. The slices of beef were very few, at only maybe 4 slices I'd say. You'd be surprised how full you can get from a small bowl of hot pot and just a few slices of meat.. this is as vegetarian as I get! ;) Sauce bar is yum! I wish the dipping dishes were a little bigger though. Garlic soy, chili oil and some other sauce I forget. Then to top off our yummy pot, shaved snow!! perfect after a hot spicy bowl of food! Got the green tea w/flan, red beans n yams. Delicious! Service can get pretty slow here.. the spicy hot pot had me begging for another glass of water every five minutes.. i wish they'd just leave a pitcher at the table! All in all a delicious meal, reminded me a lot about japanese shabu shabu. I'd definitely come here again. The prices are great, food's delicious and the variety makes it a perfectly well rounded, satisfying experience. I wouldn't however wait in line to be here.. while the food's good I don't think it's "wait around for an hour" good. Also, if you're into meat, for $5 more, you can do shabu and get a whole plate of meat n veggies.. read more

Some people have a sip of adult beverage, a glass of warm milk, restful meditation, or heavy doses of prescription medication to cure a bout of insomnia. I write about things I've eaten. Toward the top of my list is a dish which features an ingredient I understand to be a favorite of the Taiwanese; Fermented Tofu. Here it's commonly called "Stinky Tofu." Of the few people I know here of Taiwanese heritage, one restaurant was recommended for me to get my first whiff of this stinkified treat. Boiling Point. A Soup Specialty Restaurant. This one was in Arcadia, CA. I arrived about an hour or so before they closed. I pulled up to this place which had several people outside waiting for a table, and several more inside doing the same. The place is packed with lots of tables, and every seat was occupied by feasting patrons. Seeing that the wait would easily have been a half hour or more, I chose my order to go, though I would have liked to sit and enjoy a meal over one of the table burners that keep your soup piping hot! I didn't even open the menu. "Stinky Tofu." I told the smiling and very nice young woman behind the counter. She (very patiently) offered me instructions on selecting the spicy level of my soup and it's accoutrements. I went with "very spicy". I finally settled on an order of the glass noodles to finish out my order. I gave the lovely girl a half smile, and a little wink along with my credit card to settle the bill, and received a few coins, a receipt, and what I presume to be "may I help you?" in some language to the next guests behind me. One adventure at a time I suppose! ;) My soup was ready in a few minutes and I opted to drive home and eat it in my humble abode. I opened up the to go container at my little matchbox table, expecting the apocalypse or to quote Michael Jackson's Thriller "The funk of forty-thousand years" to assault my nose. But this was not the case. This soup smelled a lot like it looked. Soup. Spicy, warm, oniony, with that slight funk that accompanies any soup you put cabbage into. That said: I don't know what was in this soup really. There were the "usuals" like cabbage, spices, green onion, and meat of some sort. But I went digging straight away for the Fermented Smelly Goodness. I was either lucky or unfortunate, because I found two things that smelled, well, stinky. One was tofu, the other was...stinky. I lifted the umbra brown thing to my nose, and promptly put it back in the bowl. It stunk. It smelled E-X-A-C-T-L-Y like a well-stocked stable. You know what I mean. That smell and its "grassy" notes wafted into my nostrils. It took me by surprise to be sure; I had been expecting a different fermented smell. Beer yeast, or the funk of some good (bad) cheese. So fine, with my momentary alarm abated, I picked up the as yet still unidentified stink-loaf in my spoon, and gave it a slurp. It wasn't bad. It wasn't anything really. It was all smell and no mouth funk I would have expected. I came across a few of these little offerings in my bowl, and ate them all, my taste buds winning the sensory fight over my nose. The real surprise was the white stuff. This I could readily identify as tofu. And found that the reverse of my previous experience was true. It smelled like any other tofu, like whatever it was cooked in. It tasted a little foul, slightly putrid and sour. Not in a gagging, horrid sort of way. How can I put this. It was like....taking a few bites out of some leftover pizza, tasting something "off" in the pepperoni or the sausage but eating it anyway, and being mid-way through your second slice when someone reminds you that it was left out at the picnic all day and in the fridge only half the night and may be "past it's prime." Then you get a little stomach churn going, and hork down the pizza anyway. Know what I mean? Suuuure you do... Take that same feeling, fly it to Taiwan, put it in a bowl, season it up, and you got it. It wasn't vomitously horrid, but it was distinctly fermented to a point that I can see how it is definitely an accustomed taste. The rest of the soup was actually quite good. The broth was flavorful and rich, the veggies were still somewhat crisp, despite sitting in my car for an hour on my way home, and the glass noodles added some nice substance to the dish that balanced it out to make it a good meal in a bowl. There was a healthy portion of what I am guessing was pork, though it was a bit chewy for my taste. As for the restaurant, I am already looking forward to my next dish there, though I may choose another one of their many offerings to test and tempt my palate. Overall, I am finally glad to have broadened my culinary horizons, and going the soup route was a really good call, though it did come close to making my stomach churn up to the "almost" boiling point. Next time, I'll muster up the courage to try Stinky tofu as the street food version that the Taiwanese enjoy. read more

We got the house special pot, stinky tofu wasn't that stinky. We also got the spicy beef pot which was great! Their milk tea is great too. The only draw back was that the service is a little bit slow. read more

Boiling Point - House special hot soup - Taiwanese Near Me - Arcadia, California

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I came here one hour before the closed time and next three days my stomach felt soooooo bad. Don't eat this shiiiiiiit plzzzzz.

Been here and the other locations several times, they're all pretty consistent, and all required a 30+ minutes wait no matter what time I went. However, that never really stopped me because you can't get better mini hotpot anywhere else in the states but here. I've tried other dupes, but nothing was comparable. Unlike the conventional hotpot, where the fresh ingredients are served on the side and ready for you to cook in the boiling broth sitting in front of you, here everything's already added in and fairly cooked before the server brings it out on a small portable stove to continue to cook and keep the food warm. So be careful, it burns! I've tried nearly half of the hotpots on the menu, they were all really good. The broth was rich, the ingredients were flavorful, and the amount was generous, definitely filling. Each order came with a choice of rice or vermicelli. Don't forget to try the food with their garlic dipping sauce, it's definitely the icing on the cake! Tip: For lunch you also get a cup of iced green or black tea, plus a dollar less than the dinner menu. (Lunch hour ends at 3pm) My favorites are definitely the Taiwanese spicy hotpot and the house special/stinky tofu (I love spicy! They can adjust the level of spiciness to your liking for any broth). They have vegetarian option too. The service here was just okay, servers were not very initiative. Plenty of street parking around the restaurant. read more

I've gotten food at boiling point a total of 3 times. All three times a different location and 2 dine ins and 1 time to go. However one thing in common with all three boiling points it's the line. I seriously don't know what's all the hype about this place. Maybe I just chose the unpopular broths, but all 3 times?! Am I just that unlucky? However like the line another thing that doesn't disappoint is the lack luster of the pot I got. From stinky tofu to their Hokkaido something broth to the watered down curry I got. THEY ALL TASTED SO MEDIOCORELY SAD I feel I'm just wasting calories and my money by coming here. I'll admit my opinion may be a little biased because I'm more of a shabu enthusiast but I've tasted good hot pot, I will even go as far as using the word great. However this is just sad worst is this place is so popular??? Is everyone else eating a secret pot/broth I don't know about?? Price is competitive with other shabu places but why would I want to waste my money on mediocre food . Oh and by the way I got peer pressured into getting food all three times. Sucks when you're the minority in your group. read more

Let me get this out of the way; there is always a wait here. Doesn't matter which branch I go to and what time of day; you can never just go in and sit down to eat. Surprisingly some of the best milk tea in the area is the Hokkaido milk tea here. My Favorite Taiwanese spicy hot pot - its a little too spicy for some people but its the best one Decent Beef hot soup miso - its not as miso flavored as Mokoji though read more

Boo... This place gets worse. Aside from long wait, expiration on loyalty cards, and slow service. It was freezing and they won't let you wait inside what the "f" is that bad customer service. I will not come back here again...! read more

My daughter and i were tempted to have some hot broth cuz it's rainy day. Limited street parking. It was long line outside as usual. Ten groups were ahead of us. There were 2 or 3 tables and chairs outside to wait and smoke. Outside was dark and inside was bright, so people inside would get embarrassed attentions easily during the dinning. After 45 minutes waiting outside, we were seated. Looks 'Hole in the Wall' that the tables are small and chairs are uncomfortable. Modern deco, dim lights from the ceiling. We ordered both beef hot pots with some veggies and vermicelli. After 5 minutes they served our food. It is real boiling hot having little burner under the hot pot. The burner is portable. Inside the pot there are sliced beef, tomato, tofu, japanese tenpura, cabbage and broth. The waiter pours the broth infinitely if we want. We got 5 times refill the broth. We ordered some mushroom, cabbage, vermicelli more. The taste and the portion are really good. Even though they were not friendly, but the service was really attentive and so quick. They refilled the broth any time we want. The bathroom is clean and very far from the kitchen. The price is reasonable. Overall, i will definitely come back. read more

DO NOT GO HERE. I came on my lunch break for a coworker's going away. 4 people. They lied and told us 20 minute wait. We were seated in 50 minutes. Now it's been a total of 75 minutes and we don't have food and I have to go back to a meeting without food. Boiling point is a TERRIBLE business. There are many more places to get hot pot especially in this Asian neighborhood. Go somewhere else. read more

It's just ok. Not too special as I heard. Maybe come back again but the wait time is a little too long for my hungry tummy. read more

Boiling Point - Presentation looks good. But too much tofu and vegi. Like the soup base. Maybe I will come back again. Average only. - Taiwanese Near Me - Arcadia, California

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Hmmmmm Boiling Point. I went a couple times with friends just to try out the "legendary hotpot" I know they changed with some new hotpots recently. Anyways, I'll go into my "meh" experience with boiling point. Food: I went in to get the House Special as usual. Pretty solid pig's blood (my fave) and some good portions of other meat. To be honest, I'm not a HUGE fan of stinky tofu and I cringe sometimes. The chunks of stinky tofu was, however, a pleasant surprise since it was pretty good. Drinks: Pretty much standard tea/soda/water that you find at most Asian restaurants. I tried the plum drink, but it was mostly ice. haha a little disappointing to have so little for a whole meal. Service: This is where the review goes a bit downhill. The service was bad. I'm Korean so I don't really know about the conversation between my Chinese friends and the waiter..but apparently the waiter gave us some crazy attitude, pissing off several of my friends. That's not even the worst part. I had another experience when I saw a waiter drop hot soup on a customer. To be fair, the space is kindof cramped considering the tables being packed in. But still, I feel like things like that can happen more with untrained waiters. :X Overall, I enjoy eating here on a cold day, but I feel like this branch of Boiling Point really needs to up their service. read more

Ain't nothing like hot pot on a hot day! Delicious!! The drinks are over priced, just get water and the free after meal drink! read more

Clean, cute decor, easy parking. You win me already. The location of this particular Boiling Point is odd - it's not in a very busy area of Arcadia and it seems like most of the businesses nearby aren't even in operation... But!! this means plenty of parking. As to be expected, service was mediocre as it is with most Asian establishments (yes, I'm going to put a blanket statement on that). The food was good and came out fairly fast, although they weren't particularly busy when I went. Downside is... service was SOOOO bad that they ignored us for a while and it really made my experience here sour. read more

MY BIGGEST GRIPE: If your restaurant is going to tout an extensive drink menu, you better train your staff to be able to explain their ingredients. I wanted to know what was in their Hokkaido Milk Tea, but none of the 3 servers I asked could answer my question. And when one of them tried his best to describe it, it was in rather uncertain Chinese. The servers should at the very least be able to explain their top/featured products in English! It's absurd that no matter when I come here, there's always a wait. And that wait is usually at least 45 minutes. Even for parties of 2. COME ON PEOPLE. I JUST WANT ME SOME SOUP. I guess I kinda fell in love with restaurant hot pot this past year. I also discovered that I could really enjoy the stinky tofu soup, their house special choice. If you're sensitive to spiciness, by the way, then you want to go with no spiciness. Even the mild setting has quite a kick. For lunch, you get a free choice of sweetened black or green tea. It's a shame I can't parlay that credit to trying one of their touted milk teas. read more

Best service ever! Food is delicious and fresh. Love their drinks and staffs are very friendly and welcomed

First impression: I came here with a bunch of friends at around 6pm because we heard of the wait time. We were seated almost immediately and surprisingly, this place is the size of a boba joint. The decor was modern but not really something too special. ALSO, YOU CAN SMELL THE STENCH OF SMELLY TOFU WHEN YOU FIRST WALK IN. It wasn't bad to the point where I have to run away but it's there. Food: The bean chili sauce was good! It's not hot and it compliments the hot pots well. I ordered the beef hot pot because I consider that the most basic and staple of hot pot places. If you mess that up, then you pretty much suck. The hot pots come in different levels of spiciness and I ordered the second to most spicy. It wasn't spicy to me at all because I am pretty much the SPICY QUEEN! I can down a chunk of wasabi with sushi and I always order the most spicy at tofu places. But in regards to hotness, I think they literally meant HOT pot because the dam steam kept on blowing to my face as I tried to fish for my food. The broth was good but the amount of oil in my soup made me avoid drinking it (I'm a health freak). The portion was considerably SMALLER than jazz cat but the price compromises the size. The beef hot pot was in the range for 10.99 and there's actually three other flavors that come with more stuff for around 15 (Jazz Cat hot pots usually come in at 14 depending on what you order). Ending note: The meal ends with a small cup of complimentary tapioca drink. I only took a sip because it looked like frog eggs EKKK! and it tasted weird to me. Some of my friends liked it and some didnt. I definitely am not a fan of this dessert. With tax and tip, I rang in for about 14. Not bad. Perhaps I will come here to try the other flavors when my friends want to eat at this place again, but I will not come here on my own. It's good but it's not THAT good. read more

So there are total of 5 tables that are empty. 2 tables for 2 people and 3 tables for 4 people. We have requested to sit at the table for 4 people. Including us, there are 5 parties waiting, each are either 1 person party or 2 people parties. The waitress refused to seat us at the 4 people when we requested. She said why don't you go outside and wait and we did. So she ended up all the parties except us. One 4 people table opened up and she still refused to seat us. Is there a reason why? Because we requested to sit at a 4 people table? read more

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After my realization travels in Taiwan and experiencing the wonders of hot pot, I knew that once I get back in the U.S. I must have Taiwanese Hot Pot. Well, this is place is similar to the other Boiling Point across Southern California. The only difference is the management. Plastic numbered cards were given to the waiting customers and without any remorse to the current weather condition outside their premise. Went here during winter time and it was really cold. They did offer hot tea, but this did not help at all. The place is small, but you get that family style feeling inside. If you want a pre-made hot pot, this place is a sure to go. Ambiance 4.5 Flavor 4.8 Presentation 4.5 Service 4.2 Price 4 Total: 4.4 read more

Said before I wouldnt come back. but I decided since it was a New Year id give them a new chance. Second biggest mistake of my life. Second only to going there the first time. imagine going to a sushi restaurant and getting charged wasabi. Imagine going to an Italian restaurant and getting charged for bread. Imagine going to a Chinese restaurant and getting charged for tea. Welcome to Boiling Point, the only place where you get charged for something listed as complimentary. read more

Horrible service. Takes 40 mins to get my order. The 3 tables that came in after us got their order way before our table of 2. I am never coming back here. If you have tona of time during lunch go for it otherwise don't come!!! Food is just ok... read more

Went on Christmas Eve around 7 pm with a group of 4 people and we waited 90 minutes just to be called to the door. I understand that it was a busy time but what was frustrating was that groups of the same size that came after us were still seated first. Once inside, we had to flag down the staff repeatedly just to get a glass of water or a fork. The wait staff completely ignored our group and acted confused when we did get their attention. Their food at best is only okay and this plus their lack of ANY KIND OF SERVICE made this experience horrible. This will be our first and LAST time at this location. We made a point by not leaving a large tip and one of the servers chased after us demanding at least a 10% tip saying that it was mandatory. Overall experience can be summed up as: unprofessional and horrible service. If you are craving hot pot, you can try one of their other locations but there are definitely better options. read more

First time at BP a week ago, very positive experience with exceptional service from Abel. We had questions about everything, he was friendly, polite, patient, and helpful. He went the extra mile to explain the menu to us since it was a first time having Taiwanese Hot Soup. read more

Let me just start this off by saying I FREAKING LOVE BOILING POINT. All my friends know how much I love it, I go at least once a week sometimes as much as 3 times a week. I've gotten like 10 free hotpots from the stampcards already thats how much i've been here. In fact, I've been to all the boiling points around my area, Arcadia, San Gabriel, and Monterey Park. But enough about me, time to review! Service: 3/5 Service here is always a hit and miss. Sometimes I go, I get amazing service, they ask me if I want any water or if I would like more soup in my hotpot. And then there are days where I would wave to a waiter to take my order and he would look at me and mutter, "Ok, Wait." LOL.. uhh rude much. Anyways, I'm pretty satisfied with the service on most occasions. Food: 5/5 I love hotpot. If I could marry it I seriously would, lol but dont tell my boyfriend that. I've tried a variety of hotpots here, I usually get the beef or the seafood, I like to switch off every now and then. I've had the lamb before too, but i didn't really like the sour kick to it. And the Kimchi one was good, except it has way too much kimchi. Nonetheless, beef is the most delicious imo. Also, if you order seafood, dont expect it to just be seafood, if im not mistaken there are some pieces of lamb as well. So the hotpotts have a variety of foods in there so if your a big fan of variety, you will LOVE BP!!! Aside from the food, their sauces are BOMB! I usually mix all 3 together, and they sell there sauces in bottles too if your interested in buying them :) Drinks: 5/5 I've had the Hokkaido milk tea here and its DELICIOUS! I work at a boba place and not even our Hokkaido milk tea is as creamy as Boiling Point's! The green tea and black tea are also good. If you come before 3, you get a free green or black tea, or soda with your meal. What a deal! :) Ambience: 5/5 Good ambience, they play a lot of good songs with variety. Sometimes i'll come and I'll hear a bunch of chinese songs playing and other times i'll come here and i'll hear edm! LOL and then there are those days where they play soul/r&b. Overall: This is the best boiling point compared to the monterey park and san gabriel one. The portions here are a little bigger than the one in San Gabriel for some reason. The monterey park one has mediocre service and is so small! Dont go to that one unless you must. read more

The service is getting much better. Too bad the portions are getting smaller - especially the stinky tofu. And the price has increased quite a bit. read more

One of my go to with my friends, they close around 11 so it's later than usual food places which is a good place to go to for late nights, the food is consistent and really good. My favorite is the beef, but the wait could be long sometimes. read more

so i finally came to try hot pot (non homemade) for the first time. a very long wait... debatable if it is worth it or not. Servers are okayish here. not rude. seems a bit understaffed perhaps. Feels like a very rushed experiance: was a bit confused when they ask you to order ourside... while you're still waiting for a seat... but i guess it makes sense from a business perspective. got the beef, andd extra quail egg. medium spicyness. got a decent ammount of beef in the soup. quality of meat was decent. many vegetables. mostly napa cabbage. only got one small thing of shrooms. but i guess a bit is all you need ;] jk. umm. half a fishball... immitation crab meat, and other similar... pastes? more...glass noodles? i cant remember everything in it. what i really liked was the sauce on the side. garlic sauce... made things taste gooddd... medium spice might be a bit too much for me to enjoy my meal throughout. read more

I don't really know what everyone really rants about Boiling Point. The hot pot is good, but it really isn't worth waiting an hour for it. I ordered the LAMB HOT POT, and it was a good combination of vegetables, and lamb. The service was pretty good and it was nice that with every hot pot you get a green or black tea. Check this place out! Probably not during prime time like I did! ENJOY! read more

This restaurant replaced the old Native Restaurant, which was one of the original Taiwanese beer house in LA. It now serves Taiwanese styled hot pots, but is different the other hot pot restaurants. You don't get to cook at your table. They post a sign saying that the Health Department won't allow them to have raw food table side. WTF? Does that mean all of the KBBQ and the other hot pot places are illegal? Anyway, it smells because of the stinky tofu they serve in the most popular pot, unless you are the one eating it. Personally I don't like the wet stinky tofu, I prefer the fried ones. I had the Spicy Flavorful Beef Pot, it was spicy but not all that flavorful. Overall, I think Jazz Cat is better, if not a little pricier. It gets pretty busy here, there was a line out the door by the time we were done, so come early if you can. read more

There are few things in life that are better than Boiling Point. This is mos def my go-to place for Taiwanese hot pot. The broth is sooooo tasty! I usually get the lamb hot pot. Each hot pot has different accompaniments, but you can order other things a la carte. I always order Hokkaido milk tea when to complement my hot pot. Drinking water/tea/soda does not put out the fire in my mouth from the spicy broth. Milk is key! The only downside of Boiling Point is the long wait. I'm used to waiting about an hour to be seated...but that just testifies to how delicious this place is. I've only been seated inmediately once! And that was because I got there right when it opened! read more

I used to come here a lot until they opened one in San Gabriel. I love hot pot so I would come here all the time. I always get the kimchi or beef hot pot. This time I got the kimchi and it was really lacking flavor. The pieces of pork were also really thick and difficult to eat. The soup had no kimchi flavor at all. I asked if they could add more kimchi, but they would only do it for an extra charge. So they added chili sauce instead and my entire hot pot just tastes spicy. Not exactly what I was looking for. I've never been so disappointed at Boiling Point. I think the one in San Gabriel is better. I'm not going to come back to this one anymore. read more

It's very unprofessional service. When I noticed there's is bleach smell on the chopsticks and spoon, I let them know and request new set. After few minutes, they brought me the bamboo chopstick with a plastic spoon wrapped for togo order. I asked again for the black spoon and they said, they all have bleach smell. The waitress attitudes were so rude and disrespectful to customer. How in the hell your restaurant don't have another one without bleach smell? I got problem with San Gabriel location and now at Arcadia location. read more

Boiling Point - Taiwanese Near Me - Arcadia, California

Yes I gave the Boiling Point in Monterey Park 2 stars, but the Arcadia one I just love. It just goes to show, customer service really makes a huge difference. I've never really encountered troubling service or extreme stupidity here. Sure sometimes they forget to bring you something when they're especially busy, but just remind them and they'll get on it. I like this one a lot better because their waiting list is a lot more organized (get a number tab, and then write down your number and how many people. not your name). Also, they have benches for you to sit on outside while you wait! Hallelujah! You would think parking would be a pain, but surprisingly not. The decor is actually nicer looking as well, and the sauce area is tidy and neat looking. A lot of people say mix all three together, but I prefer just three scoops of garlic, and then two heaping scoops of the chili bean paste. The word "bean" turned me off the first time, but after trying it I keep coming back just for their sauce! I tend to come for the lunch special. The pots are cheaper, AND you get a free drink! But you only get to choose either green tea or black tea. Expect kind of a long wait, because this is around the business district so a lot of people are coming in from work. You also feel kind of like a bum, since everyone is all dressed up or in their suits. I've tried the Beef Hot Pot, which is still my favorite. I also got the Japanese Miso one time. It was yummy. But it does cost about $4 more. It's supposed to be bigger; the pot is bigger. The contents inside, I don't think they give you that much more. read more

It basically not too far from where i live. A piece and quite place in arcadia. The wait is normal for boiling point. I had to try that bigger pot taiwanese spicy special. The Food going down was good. but coming back out was bad. took me a day and Few poops later to leave my system. :/ I would poop here again. Thanks boiling crap. i mean point. read more

This location is crazy busy...I frequent it often so here are my thoughts/tips House Stinky Tofu Pot $9.99 Avg pork meat...not super tender Tofu - nice tasting and not too stinky Soup - Mild and full bodied...very nice 1/2 Porl Ball - Stingy really...could hardly tell whether it's good or not Pork Blood - 2 thin and tiny pieces 1 quail egg glass noodle and lettuce - afterthought Can I say overpriced? It is indeed....Tasty..Yup. I also get the seafood pot....also not very filling for men...I get hungry after 2 hours. The best thing about this place is the SAUCE....it makes BP worth coming to. The bean sauce is reminiscent of Taiwan as it is not too spicy nor salty..loved it. My advice to the owners...add more ingredients to make the pot look fuller....it just looks stingy to me.... Probably why people prefer going to JAZZ CAT since they offer more mear for a few bucks more. read more