Golden Lake — Restaurant in Salford

We went last night, 8pm Friday 13/10/17. I only put the day and date in order to show current and peak time, not because it was bad luck!

I’ve passed this place loads of times and always said we should try it. Eventually we got around to it.

The place itself is very reminiscent of Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong, a bit dingy and very “what do you want” service, but decent food and no-frills.

When we visited, they were getting orders from Just Eat at a rate of probably 1-2 a minute, so it was fairly busy.

We sat down, looked at the menu and picked some items. My wife ordered them and we paid. They didn’t have a couple of the things requested, but otherwise we got what we asked for.

Food took a while to arrive, but it was hot, reasonably tasty and as ordered. The lady serving food looked bewildered most of the time, so basically they were running beyond full tilt - more staff needed for peak times.

They only take cash, so be prepared to have a little walk to the bank machine if you don’t have enough money.

Basic restaurant (no frills at all), decent food, but obviously adjust your expectations about service if you’re going at...

The Golden Lake strives the best quality of the Chinese cuisine; most of them are stir fries of home cooking alike.

One of the remarkable dishes is the braised fish filet with fried tofu, vegetable and BBQ pork to be recommended.

The other is the deep fried squid pepper and salt that you will never forget.

In the freezing winter that keeps yourself a warm body, the lamb stew with the bean curd sheet is ai must to try.

In the most greediness to have a final bite, the fried stuffed eggplant, green pepper and bean curd is one of temptations which you will never foreget to order.

Not enough to make you a full stomach, why not to have the stir friedj beef rice noodle or the stir fried rice noodles Xiamen style to wrap up

The Golden Lake is running by a Hong Konger couple; a small restaurant but neat one in the Phoebe Street of Salford area. Sister Lai, the onwer, is a very people person having a strong memory of every gourmet. She can easily making call your name when you dine in.

Be sure you have to ring and contact Sister Lai for any reservation on Saturday or Sunday to keep away from...

Been coming to this place even b4 they relocated to current location. 1st point is, this is not a hong kong style cafe. It's more a typical Chinese take away that does some hong kong style dishes and you can eat in. Don't expect the taste of HK in their drinks or food. It initially was targeting students and locals, but over the last few years its clientele has evolved to become hong kong ppl based and I have noticed their menu slowly changing to cater more towards their taste.

Now we have toned down our expectations, this is infact a great place cheap, huge portions and it don't taste too bad too, if you order the right things. The typical Chinese take away food is decent standard, the eat in menu for rice/noodles are all £11 each and portions r generous. There are certainly things that maybe you should avoid like any of the szechuan style dishes and a few others I will let u find out. You may like them but it's certainly not for me. They have a specials menu which is pretty good like fresh...