Golden Harvest Restaurant — Restaurant in South Island

Golden Harvest Restaurant – Beautiful Presentation, But Disappointing Flavour

I recently visited Golden Harvest Restaurant and left with mixed feelings. On the surface, everything looked promising—the restaurant was bustling, the service was excellent, and the food arrived quickly. However, the flavours just didn’t live up to the presentation.

The wantons and dumplings looked great, but unfortunately, they were overpowered by oil. The fillings lacked seasoning and tasted bland, missing even the basics like salt. It was a similar story with the Chicken & Cashew Nuts. Despite asking for it to be made spicy, it arrived completely tasteless. I had to add extra chilli and soy sauce just to get some flavour out of it.

While the food was presented well and the service staff were friendly and efficient, the taste left a lot to be desired. I couldn’t understand why the place was almost full, given how underwhelming the food was.

Golden Harvest might appeal to those who prioritize fast service and presentation, but if you're looking for rich, balanced flavours, you might be...

Update: revisit with coworkers and the service has been improved. $25 per person for a lot of dishes (yum ha) it was great value.

Revisit again aftet new owner. Service was much more improve. Some staff cannot speak English but it is ok though.

Service is ok, no chit chat after drop the menu and walked away. Can be expected. If you can't speak Chinese, they tent to drop menu and run lol.

We went for yum cha and food was good and fresh.

We ordered too much (you will see from my photos) Lol just FYI, they do charged $0.50 for a plastic take away box if you want to take left over home. Which disappointed as we had heaps of food $120 for 3 ppl but got charge for plastic box.

Next time I will bring own box, just in case I have left over again.

Sauces and water, you have to grab yourself at the counter. And some items only serve on weekend.

One thing they could do better is menu is in alphabetical order, as we can't read Chinese - took us long time to find items on...

This is a fine chinese restuarant. Well presented, clean and welcoming. We've been here twice in the 5 days while in Dunedin. Food was great and could have been a 5 star but sadly the 2nd time round staff and owner were ignorant or simply didn't want to accept that a lemon lime & bitters bottled drink they served us was flat and tasted 'off'. I tried to explain but they're attitude was 'well we didn't make it, it came out from the bottle that way'. Although this was a 3rd party product I would have excepted a little more concern esoecially when we couldn't even finish the drink. Although it was just $5 each a simple acceptance and partial refund would have made us feel valued, especially when you've been there the 2nd time and spent nearly $200. I hate to steroetype here but its typical of such cultures to take feedback poorly and become defensive. It did spoil our dining experience and sadly we may not return to dine in, maybe...