The Boss Restaurant (Metrotown)

CASH ONLY. CASH ONLY.

Pretty mediocre food, but it's not bad per se. Comes out hot. Value sort of debatable but portions are good -- you'll walk out full even if most of it was noodle.

Value is a lot better if you are not dining solo. If you are, I recommend a larger sharing order for take-out and just portion it into two or three meals at home.

Shrimp and BBQ Pork Fried Rice Noodle with Curry Sauce ($13.95, comes with a hot drink)

Not really spicy at all. Separately offered hot sauce is not recommended as it's a different type of spicy heat from the curry.
Overall nothing wrong here. This is a largish portion for one person, so if you are two persons you're better off ordering a single larger portion to share from the regular noodle menu. The closest is probably V4 under Fried Vermicelli.

The Boss Signature Fried Noodle ($17.75)

Mix of veggies, ham, shrimp, chicken, mushroom. Kind of an elusive amount of each.
No doubt about it this is a pretty massive plate good for two persons. Which does work out to less than $10 per person, so it's a filling portion.
Most of it is noodle but the net amount of non-noodle is definitely portioned for more than one person.

We went for weekend lunch and it was busy! But they have a good take-a-number system and turnaround for small tables for two is not bad.

Service was brisk and businesslike.

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