Review Golden China Restaurant - Pasadena

Love their lunch specials! Available everyday. I usually call and pick up. The salad is the best to me, simple but good. This is the orange chicken.

I never write reviews, but I’m just so bothered by my experience. I ordered over the phone, orange chicken, veggie fried rice and an egg roll. I had a paper menu at home that I ordered off of. I went to pick it up, he tells me the price $45. I said “excuse me?” I ordered orange chicken fried rice and an egg roll. We had a miscommunication about the egg roll order. I thought I was ordering one single egg roll. I said ok we had a miscommunication. He continued to rant at me. So I said assertively, “ sir, I said we had a miscommunication “ so he stopped talking. He then offered to take the egg roll out. I said yes please. So now, my bill was $35. Which is still insane for rice and chicken. I said the menu I have must be wrong then. Bc that doesn’t calculate to what’s on the paper menu. Either way, whatever. I took the food home. Now I’m infuriated. The fried rice was flavorless and basically soggy white rice with veggies and scrambled egg. I tried to dr them up, add soy sauce and fry them in a pan. Now, I try the orange chicken. The smell of burnt sauce oozed out of the container. I took a bite, the chicken was chewy yet had a sandy crunch when bit into with an intense burnt flavor. Maybe work on the quality of food before upping every item 5 more bucks. And no one needs a sob story about gas prices when a customer brings up how insane the prices are. I’ll literally never order from here again. Please work on your quality before over charging. Now I’ve wasted 35 bucks, and food is wasted and going in the trash. Super disappointed.

Food was great, service was great. The staff was very friendly making it a great experience. The portions of food were very large allowing us to take leftovers home for snacks. Def would come back.

Food was great and filling. Been a long time since I tasted original(?) chow mein. Brought back some memories. Very good Chinese cuisine. Will definitely come back and try others on the menu. This is real chow mein, not the one at PandaXpress.

Love this place, chicken chop suey so delicious 😋 Today we got chicken chow mein and chicken kun pao

From outside it looks like a very small place but once inside one can see the difference. Lots of space, elegant but comfortable. Very nice waiters. Tasty and great variety of food. Very large portions. Definitely a place to return.

Some parts of the food were luke warm. I like my meals hot! After watching the movie, Waiting, I decided to doggie bag it and take it home. Otherwise service was good, food was good, the fried shrimp was the BOMB and the restaurant was clean. 👍

I was born and raised in Pasadena and South Pas., and am very well worldy traveled. I'll tell you now, this is the best Chinese food I've had in all southern california, this place is no joke. Best stuff on the menu: - Chicken Chow-fun - Walnut Shrimp - Garlic green beans - Steamed Dumplings (BE SURE TO ASK FOR CHILI-PASTE AND HOT MUSTARD)