Finally, audiologist Billie Silver is stirring the pot with what she calls the best PanAsian
eatery in South Florida.
With a name as loud and lively as the atmosphere, it serves up specialty cocktails, mouthwatering
noodles, and unique Asian tapas packed with flavor.
She says they own that exclamation point in their name, drum roll please, it's called
Kapow!
And it's in Boca Raton.
The Kapow!
Noodle Bar was started in 2011.
Our food is like PanAsian so we do all over Asia, Vietnam, Japanese food, Chinese food,
we do it all, and we kind of fuse it all together, but we still stick to the traditional roots
of what made the food great in the beginning.
It's like an explosion of flavors, from the moment you walk in the door, and you see the
mural, and you see the bartender, the flames and the sounds of the wok, you can just feel
the vibe, it's just like kapow, it smacks you kind of in the face that you're gonna
enjoy yourself and you're gonna want to come back and back for more.
One of our signature dishes that we do is a wild mushroom chow fun, it's a wide Cantonese
rice noodle and it's tossed with scallions, Chinese garlic chives, and a mix of exotic
mushrooms and shallots, and then we toss all of that together with some white truffle oil.
As being the chef and standing around the dining room a lot, I hear a lot of people
say, wow this is delicious, everything is amazing, and like it's just like happy food,
it could be considered some of it like Asian comfort food, but with our clientele, they
are realizing how good this simple food can be and how good it can make you feel.
Kapow!
Noodle Bar is just a family, and just sit down, enjoy yourself, have a couple snacks,
couple nice craft beers or craft cocktails, and kind of just join the family.
Billie, describe the look of this place first.
It's very, very nice, they have tables outdoors, they have a bar that's indoors and outdoors,
it has to be the best Asian restaurant I've ever been to in South Florida.
That's a big statement.
Well, it really lives up to its name.
Their consistency is wonderful.
They have homemade desserts that are really delicious also.
So tell us what you had.
[Billie] We had hoisin barbecue baby ribs, which were amazing, fallofthebone with delicious
flavors, General Tso's cauliflower, that's delicious, they're like flashfried, bitesized
pieces of cauliflower with like a general Tso's sauce so it's sweet and spicy at the
same time.
We had wokcharred edamame and it's amazing because my husband definitely doesn't like
edamame.
I said you've got to try this.
How could he not like edamame?
There's nothing not to like about it.
[Billie] This one was wokcharred, so it was sort of black and withered, delicious, hoisin
ginger garlic sauce, so he couldn't stop eating them.
We had also prawn dumplings which each thing really comes with its own sauce, so everything's
very flavorful, and it was very delicious.
David, what'd you think?
I had the barbecue duck fried rice, wow, some of the best fried rice I had and I think what
made it so good was the quality of the ingredients they were using in there.
I even joking around asked the waitress, I'm like, is this real duck, she's like, yeah,
what do you think it's gonna be, chicken?
It's excellent.
Well done, and I love the decor, it was a modern, youthful, relaxed decor and very welcoming.
So it was a nice Americano take on Asian decor, and it was beautiful.
What else did you have?
The chicken wings.
[Michelle] Vietnamesestyle, right?
[David] Vietnamesestyle chicken wings.
I loved the naked chicken wings by themselves.
The sauce I wasn't such a big fan of.
Did you like them?
You had them.
I kind of felt the same way, I like sauce and I really felt like they were just plain.
The sauce was good but I feel like if it was soaked in it, that it would be a lot better.
What I also loved is the Thai donuts.
If you get the chance to have those, amazing, so good.
Some of the best Thai donuts I've had so far.
[Michelle] So do they have the condensed milk dipping?
[David] They had the condensed milk and they also had jelly sauce.
And they are served warm.
Mhm, super warm, excellent.
You had pork pot stickers, right?
I did have the pork pot stickers, yeah.
Very great flavor, they were crispy.
[Billie] Also they were fried.
[Julianne] Yup, and they were great.
Steak lo mein, tell me about it.
The steak lo mein was excellent.
The steak, perfect.
It was marinated, it was grilled perfectly, they didn't ask the temperature, but it was
like a nice perfect medium.
The noodles were excellent, they had lots and lots of veggies.
It was great.
[Michelle] It was delicious?
It was really delicious.
How were the prices?
Oh, reasonable.
Definitely not gonna break the bank.
I think I spent maybe, for everything I got, maybe $50, so it was good.
And service?
[Billie] Excellent.
[David] Oh, amazing.
So friendly, fast, that was one of my favorite parts, anytime I go somewhere new, I love
to hear what the waiters have to say about it, and they were so knowledgeable about the
menu, and they make great recommendations.
I just wanted to add I had a great cocktail, it was called garden variety.
I had the same one.
[Billie] It was vodka with basil, black pepper, agave, and it had some fresh herbs.
It was really delicious.
That's one of my favorite things about the restaurant, for sure.
Tell me about what your daughter can't stop talking about.
The ice cream.
Really?
The mochi ice cream was so awesome, we ordered it not knowing and not having any idea what
is was.
My daughter of course went right into the flavorful orange, you know, mango.
It's almost like a gummy bear around ice cream.
Or sorbet, in like a mango.
They had mango, chocolate, and green tea.
[David] Ooh, yummy.
[Julianne] So my favorite was the chocolate for sure.
And then my daughter really liked the mango.
All of them were amazing.
She still talks about it.
So it was really really good, yeah.
I had the pineapple brulee dessert which was a quarter of a pineapple slice, fresh pineapple,
and then had the brulee topping, and then it was sprinkled with shredded coconut.
[Michelle] Oh that's lovely.
[Billie] So it was really nice to have something light at the end of the meal.
Well, Billie, Kapow!
Was your choice.
Sum it up for us, please.
Very good service and they are always consistently good.
I've never had a bad meal there.
David?
Amazing barbecue ginger duck fried rice, oh my gosh, and easy parking, great service.
Julianne?
Excellent choice, definitely go there, definitely go try it and make sure you get a cocktail.
For mind blowing cuisine, go to Kapow! located at 431 Plaza Real in Boca Raton.
With an additional location in West Palm Beach, open daily for lunch and dinner, reservations
are accepted, and the average price for dinner without drinks is about $55.