I've seen several different names for this place in the 88 Food Connection on UberEats and Fantuan.. B.D. Chilipa, Chili Bento.. but whatever the name, this place has grown on me. It's usually very busy with International students ordering food, so I know that the food must be fairly authentic. Their bento box deals are affordable and comes with soup, and you have the option of choosing 1, 2, or 3 entrees. What surprised me was how delicious and reasonable their mala dry pot are. I'd say that their mala may be the tastiest compared to their many competitors around the area. And the cheapest as well! No wonder so many people eat their mala dry pot dishes in the food court. read more

Conveniently located inside the food court by Super 88. You can browse some of the other stalls that sell traditional Chinese dishes and Asian snacks. Plenty of seating inside the food court. Looks to me that two categories of best sellers are the customizable mala pot and combo rice plates (1,2, or 3 items + rice + soup). We opted for the dry mala pot. Choice of small ($7, 4 veggies) or large ($9, 6 veggies), meat/seafood is $4 each, and choice of rice, ramen, or instant noodle for ($1.50-$2). Pros: - The spices are no joke! We got the "mild" which was plenty spicy, and left that spicy tingle I.e. "mala" feeling on the tongue. - I love that it's customizable so you can essentially have pretty different dishes based on your veggie and meat/protein choice. - Convenient and fast. Easy to use erasable customizable board. Cons: - We expected the "large" to be, well, larger. It lasted 2 meals with rice. - I wish rice came with it instead of extra. - The meat (we got snow beef) and some of the veggies were a little tough. The potatoes and taro were thinly sliced instead of hearty chunks, which I find more satisfying. - They were out of classic favorites lotus root and enoki mushrooms at early lunch. Overall, I hope to come back and give the mala pot another try with different veggie and protein combos. read more

Souper Bowl - Customizable Mala pot - Chinese Near Me - Boston, Massachusetts

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For a city that has now won, what? Seven Super Bowls? Oh, six. He's going to go for seven this year. Good times. I really want to give this place 4 stars, because I think the food is authentic and actually pretty good. I'm surprised that a lot of people give it such a bad rating but it might be for the same reason that I'm giving a bad rating, which is that the girl is such a weirdo about tips. You should not have to tip people serving you at a food stall although you have that option. However if you don't tip this girl you get a smaller portion and really really really bad attitude. Sometimes you get bad attitude even if you do tip. So that's what brings it down to the 3. read more

Souper Bowl - I'm souper, thanks for asking - Chinese Near Me - Boston, Massachusetts

I write this FTR only as an uninformed white-guy who knows not what to compare it to, or even what genera of food it is. So feel free to correct me! I'd love to find out what I got wrong. What I do know for a fact is that it's owned by the came people who run the apparently beloved mala xiang gu place up the row, Chilipa. I THINK that this restaurant mainly is, is an outlet for xinjiang style cumin-skewers? But i'm not completely sure. Maybe someone more familiar with this part of china can inform me please... They have two main food options. The first of which is what they call a "bento box" which consist of 6 or so above-average looking prepared (american looking?) chinese food entrees. Looks ok. Looks fast, ready to go. I like that. Didn't try it yet. The second option, and what I think the main draw of this restaurant is that they have maybe 20 different types of skewered meats/veggies between $1.50 to $3.00 ea. I won't remember the whole list, but it's like "Pork" (which is a piece of uncured bacon), Lamb, Chicken wings, Chicken Hearts, Chicken gizzards, "Bejiing Sausage" [which i'm always amazined to see is the most hotdog-like thing i've ever encountered that isn't a hotdog], Prawn (shrimp with delicious brians to suck out), Broccoli, Regular mushrooms, Enoki Mushrooms, Corn cob, Cabbage, Cauliflower? Chives, and two types of sweet bun, a fried and a "BBQ bun" which is grilled. They have others i'm forgetting, as well as some options to get a few whole fish. All of these items are put on the typical bamboo take out skewer, and BBQ'd with a thick coating of a cumin-based spice mixture, and cooked until lightly charred. With advisement from the friendly lady at the register, I got my little spicy powder cup on the side of my food, as opposed to on top. but I look back and I think agreeing to get it on the side was a mistake. I think in all Szechuan and Asian food in general, the heat is am important part of the meal. Next time. I put up a bunch of pictures of the things I got. Food ingredient quality was pretty average, but let me tell you, that cumin crust and the power of a BBQ grill can make any food into something amazingggggg. I've never had anything like it. I only got (lamb, chicken heart, pork, prawn, BBQ bun, broccoli, enoki mushroom, chives, fried bun). Everything was absolutely crusted with cumin which was both overwhelming and delicious. Once I finally caught on and put some of the spicy powder on my food it improved substantially. My favorites were the Fried Sweet bun, Broccoli, the chicken hearts (which were delightfully un-minerally for organ meat..) and the Shrimp. The shrimps' brains were amazing. The lamb I got was good. The meat was tender, and not cut fro ma lean section. There was some fat keeping it awesome right on the skewer. Cumin went with the lamb like crazy., but with the spice cooked in I bet it would have been really amazing. Next time, I am going to try the rest of the things I didn't get. I should get the lamb again with the spice on it I saw someone after me got the corn cob, and I realized I should have gotten that too, it looked superb. Everything was very tender and good, but I kind of had all these different neat skewers and felt like I hadn't actually had a meal. I got everything togo, and while it didn't present in the pictures super well, the packing job they did was super secure, and leak free for my walk back to the office. I really liked the place! But I'm still trying to figure out what to make of it. I hope it stays busy! Regionally based sub-generas of Sichuan food can be esoteric, even for awesome super88. I was thinking that about Chilipa when it opened, which is now continually busy all day. I'm sure this one will work out as well. read more

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This is definitely not Cantonese style cuisine or Taiwanese. I'm here to write a review because my husband got so sick after eating this you pick 3 from this restaurant. He got so sick that he vomitted and had to use the toilet a lot of you know what I mean. I told him not to order from this place. I personally ordered from Viet pho which I'm fine. But can't even make it to a NYC wedding which we even booked a room to go. We ordered from here once and the pieces of meat of the BBQ is so small. The prices for the portion is ridiculous. $1.50 for one skewer but it can be $5 for a bunch jr skewers. I'm really upset that my husband got so sick from eating here and I'm sure they didn't wash their produce before cooking. read more

A spot to go to when the craving for homecooked Chinese food kicks in. I always visited this place back in college because of its convenient location and familiarity to the food I ate growing up. The portion sizes aren't that great for the price you pay for however. Don't get the dumplings here--for a steep price of around $8-9, there are only 6 dumplings with a ton of filler cabbage in the soup. read more

Super delicious I love it so much cheap!nlalalalalalalalalalaa Souperbowl has delicious choice of dishes read more

Souper Bowl - a variety of food items - Chinese Near Me - Boston, Massachusetts

Foods good- cashier will pressure you to tip (despite this being takeout) and if you don't she will look away and then throw your food on the counter. If you do tip, she will give you the warmest fakest smile seen all across Brighton Ave. I know this because Ive tipped many times, and then the one time I don't tip she does a 180 and forgets all the times I tipped and throws the food on the counter. Very robotic, almost like if you were interacting with a cashier in a video game. read more

This place is authentic Chinese take out. If I'm going to get Chinese take-out, I don't care so much about service, asking for tips, or other weird things reviewers have found the time to complain about. I just care about the food and how good it tastes- and by the way, the food tastes great. Don't get wings or skewers or random garbage you see on the menu. Look at the buffet-style dishes in front of you and order 2 or 3 dishes + a side of rice + a soup. That's all you need. For around $10, you can't beat this place in terms of food, taste, and authenticity. P.S. One of my pet peeves for reviews of Asian food in Boston is people who have never been to Asia or had authentic Asian cuisine complaining about "texture" or "dryness" or "parking" at a take out place. Yelp reviews for Chinese food in Boston by the population here has tanked the quality of restaurants who forgo authenticity in trying to cater to the lowest possible denominator. read more

Lady asking for tips, it's a take out place and it's up the the customer to tip you or not, before me she told a couple of foreigners that tip are required, seriously??? The when was my turn she asked me too; i told her not tip.. she look at me with a killer eyes. Don't know if i buy from them again, will feel uncomfortable if i don't tip. Guy, just let you know; you don't need to tip. read more

Nice food suitable for Chinese not expensive many choices A lot of meat Love the fish read more

The Souper Bowl took over the Misono Wok spot. In the Super 88 Food Court. The Food was very good the prices where very affordable only $1.50 each for there meat skewers. I had the Lamb skewers very good. I also had the Shanghai Pork Buns.Also very good. I will have to explore the place further next time I go to the Super 88 Food Court. Review update pending. read more

Great food, esp the pork variants! Try getting the three entrees to test them all out. read more

Souper Bowl - Chinese Near Me - Boston, Massachusetts

this restaurant provides authentic Chinese foods which are both tasty and healthy. For my dinner today I order the three dish combo for beef pork and fish. I personally love eating spicy so it suits my taste even more. read more

Souper Bowl - Combo for dinner - Chinese Near Me - Boston, Massachusetts

Make sure you tip the girl or else you will get 2 pieces of chicken and half a scoop of food for $15.

This place is located in Super 88 food court and hasn't been here very long. Super 88 has parking and is very accessible by train. Since this is a food court, there is plenty of seats and you will usually find one. We decided we wanted to try this new joint after ordering from almost every stand at the food court already. I do think this fast food has good entree deals (three entrees plus rice for under $9), but everything seems a little too greasy for me to try. We decided to order some of the kabobs - lamb, fishballs, chicken wings and corn. I was pretty disappointed and unsatisfied. The fishballs on a stick was literally two fishballs cut in half on a stick dipped into some sauce (for double the price I can go to Super 88 and get a whole package), the lamb was not too bad and a good portion on the stick, the chicken wing kabob had two pieces each (fair, but nothing special and not flavorful at all) and the corn was very bland and not that great (to me). I probably won't go here again, but there is a wide variety of kabobs and a constantly changing entree menu for you to choose from. read more

The food is very good and The cashier is very good. I enjoyed today I will go there often in the future read more

I once felt that her family was very delicious. I bought a copy today. Today, when I ordered the girl to check out, she asked me to order a tip. I didn't pay attention to the option of no tipping. （The girl was very good to me when I came to buy food on Tuesday.) (Why is this girl doing this to me today?) read more

The roast fish is delicious and so are the gristles... However it's a little bit expensive and the roast quail doesn't taste good... So mild... read more

I love anything Chinese and have eaten almost every province's cuisine in the US and had many styles in China itself. Overall, this is the worst Chinese meal I've ever had. The rice was gluey and tasteless, the soup was without flavor, the chicken gristle dish had absolutely zero meat attached, the lamb skewer was overspiced and dry, the meat on the chicken heart skewer was unidentifiable and overspiced with unsavory overtones. Only the pork with potatoes was of even average quality. It's also hard to order and the skewers come out long long after the rest of the food. Can't I say something nice? OK, the people were friendly. read more

Cashier was unfriendly and had her ear phone o n the whole time while we were ordering.

Came to try the kabobs. I got a chicken gizzard and Chinese sausage. Neither was good. Gizzard has a strange texture. It was apparent that they did something to the gizzard, because the texture was abnormal. Chinese sausage was ok, but not authentic enough. The sausage flavors itself was very mild. I was not too thrilled about the seasoning of the kabobs. read more