Ahh…. The One Restaurant with the gigantic slush bubble teas and beef noodle soup?! You don’t have to ask me twice to come here, I’d already be out the door before you finish the sentence! 
On this particular visit, Marvs sis is joining us as well.
Belinda and I decided to head out for dinner and drinks after work 1 day. We ended up heading onto Cambie and stopped at Wang’s Taiwan Beef Noodle. I was on a beef noodle phase awhile ago and had wanted to give this place a try, so here we are!
When we entered the place, there was only 1 other table occupied, but they were already leaving. I looked at the clock – not even 8pm and it’s already so dead? Not a good sign so far, I was hoping customers would start flocking in soon. Unfortunately no one else entered the place(and we were there for a few hours!) I guess it’s because the parking situation isn’t the best in this area, all meter parking.
For our drinks, Belinda went with the Milk Tea with Grass Jelly. She said it was good, I’m surprised she went out of her norm and added grass jelly! I went with the Taro Milk Tea and it was pretty solid.
We both ordered the same thing Beef Noodle Soup, but with different types of noodle. The broth was pretty flavourful and they aren’t stingy on the meat. The bowl of noodles appeared to be quite small when it arrived to the table, but actually it was quite filling!
Overall the food here is okay. Service was sparse even though we were the only customers in the place. Based on that, we’d probably venture elsewhere for our beef noodle soup.
Post by Colleen
Here we are at Flo Tea Room on Granville again. I like how this place isn’t soley a drinks place, but it also has decent food too. This time around, we were here for dinner #2. We had already had our first dinner at Marvs house.
So I had a really big craving for Taro Slush with Pearls and upon hearing that, Marv wanted one for himself as well! After enough times in the past of sharing a drink with him, I’ve learned that you can NEVER share a drink with Marv unless you plan on only taking a small sip haha. It’ll be all gone by the time you get to it again! This version here was a bit too icy for my taste, made it too watered down. On the right is their Prime Rib with Spaghetti. Marv found it to be pretty tasty and had wished he went with the baked potato instead of the spaghetti. Surprisingly it was a 12 oz prime rib for only $16.
And I was looking for some sort of noodle soup dish and settled on the Beef Brisket Noodle Soup. The good thing about this is that they give you a lot of beef brisket pieces, however it was far too tough and chewy. The broth wasn’t strong in flavour, I didn’t enjoy this dish too much.
Overall, generally we enjoy stopping here for a quick drink/casual bite to eat. There are some hits/misses with their dishes, I’ll have to pick more carefully next time.
Post by Colleen
Ahhh, The One. This place has had a few recent improvements since we first visited here a while ago. The one thing I noticed is how much better parking here is during lunch rather than dinner simply because there are a lot less cars than it would have been. I don’t really think this place is anything special but the reason we are here today is because both Colleen and I are doing our boxing day shopping at Visions and Metrotown…………
Check out this gigantic order of taro slush with pearls!! It’s ridiculous! We had to quickly eat ours from the top because it was already toppling over, the table next to us dropped theirs onto the table because they were trying to transfer it into another bowl. Does that look like it will fit into a small rice bowl? REALLY?
We also ordered a small portion of the taiwanese chicken nuggets. Not as good as BB’s but it will do, ahahahha
Can’t go without trying out their dumplings, honestly though, nothing special. I thought we could have done without it but Colleen loves dumplings. Next to it here is an order of their beef noodle soup. I thought it isn’t as good as LSD noodle house(even though they’re essentially the same), I just like that other place better.
Here’s my order, sliced lamb hotpot. I thought it would be the other style instead of this clear tasteless broth. I didn’t like this at all. I ate the dumplings and chicken nuggets for the most part and I regretted this order since its arrival to our table….never again.
Overall our lunch experience was fairly pleasant. I think I see myself eating here more often than I would like because let’s face it, I can order a bubble tea here and have two portions of it for the same price, so not bad at all.
Post by Marv
We both enjoyed our prior visit here and after a hot day of walking around we decided to stop by for a bubble tea for Colleen. I wanted to eat cause I was hungry. When am I not?
So since I’ve had the hot pot lamb last time, I’ve been curious to give this another try. This time around the pieces were a bit tougher and sliced. Broth was the same, needs a sauce of something satay.
Here we have Colleen’s bbt, taro milk tea with pearls! And since I’m already geared up for eating, we added an order of salted fish with chicken fried rice. Same simple taste. Not over powering and just right. Average.
Overall we could have parked outside front lot since there was no one in the restaurant that looked old enough to drive a car and well, its a quick meal and cheap enough.
Post by Marv
I had wanted to visit Dot Desserts for awhile now, but didn’t get the chance since Marv isn’t a big fan of desserts. Finally I found someone willing to accompany me!
Dot. Desserts
5556 Cambie St, Vancouver BC
Tel#: (604) 327-6368