Golden Seafood Restaurant — Restaurant in Edison

DO NOT GO HERE AWFUL SERVICE!!! It took over 30 mins for someone to finally take our order. When they were seating us, they threw the napkins and dishes for the table very rudely and we received “hot” tea but it was very cold. The table they had us seated at was by their supplies so we constantly had waiters coming to our area and kept messing up our table cloth as they were grabbing stuff from that area. I just didn't understand why we couldn't be placed at another table where it wasn't a very narrow space since there were so many empty tables still left. Also they will make you share tables with other people sometimes even though it's not that busy and there's still a bunch of empty tables left. They gave us these plate of nuts that were really good but they placed it on the other side of the table even though nobody was sitting there and we were sitting on the opposite side. So I had to walk all the way around the table to put the plate of nuts closer to us even though the waiter saw us sitting down in our chairs already but she still proceeded to put the plate all the way on the other side of the table. We were never asked how the food was or how we were doing. The sweet and sour chicken had no taste and was very dry but the hot and sour soup was very good. The only time we saw or talked with the waiter was when we ordered food and asked for the check so a total of 2 times within a 2 hr span. However it was a different waiter that gave us the check. We were already disappointed with the service as well as the food. After he processed the payment, he waited by our table as we were about to tip and gather our leftovers. But then he blocked our path and ask “why the tip so low? Give me more tip!” He forced us to tip so much money for poor service. Then as we were leaving the place and heading towards the exit, the waiters were talking bad about us in Chinese. They would tell us "Have a nice day" in English but then proceed to call us awful names in Chinese. NEVER GOING BACK HERE AGAIN! It used to be so good here especially the service. But now it’s awful and the quality of service and food has declined so much. It has come to the point where they won’t let you leave the building unless you tip the amount that they want even though they have poor service and never check up on you only when it came to the money/tip. But if you want to overspend on decent food and low quality service, then by all means feel free to come here! They will be more than happy to suck all your money from your bank account just only with the tip! Oh and if you're not Chinese or don't speak the language, they will treat you very differently and rudely. I was fortunate enough to understand the language but I can't imagine all the awful things they said to other customers that did not appear to look Chinese or they thought they don't understand what they...

December 2024: Stars lower by 2 for questionable practices. 1- You have to also add TIP% on TAXES on your meal! and TIP is not OPTIONAL! - it REQUIRED! if the wait staff servers was like other restaurant then I would not mine. but service is typical Asian status quo, only reactive and not proactive. 2- If you order fresh seafood (Crab/Fish/Lobster/etc) @ $28/per LBS. we were fine with the price. But the weight of your seafood (Crab/Fish/Lobster/etc) is quoted verbally. no actual scale weighted for true weight in. I seen in other have a hanging scale to show your what you getting.

July 2024: Star stays the same. Dinner: tested out the sweet and sour pork to see if they read reviews and improve on dish prep. Did not change at all. Double fried pork with refrigerator tastes to cut down on prep and cooking. Shortcut never wins. So everyone don't order this dish. Dim Sum: first time trying dim sum, very crowded, which means the food needs to be fresh. food is very tasty. Not like the pre-prepped double fried sweet and sour pork dish. Will come to do dim sum again.

May 2024: -1* This time sat in the restaurant to try the sweet and Sour pork and it is still the same, pre deep fried and refrigerate to cut the cook time in half, you can tell if the meat is a bit hard and dark and not tender. If you do it to this dish, why not all you other dishes like fish, shrimp, and tofu. You can convert to restaurants to fast food to cut the time in half.

Update -1*: Sweet and Sour pork is now at 75%, cutting corners on processing, now they cook it in advanced and refrigerate it, so now you will taste the refrigerator air taste, not made fresh except the sauce. I would rather wait the extra time for it to be made fresh. If your crispy chicken was made fresh, why not cook all your dishes fresh. Why take shortcuts? Who's lost? Not the customers, we go somewhere else. the business is at lost.

I had take out twice, man, the food is on point and authentic Cantonese flavors. Sweet and sour pork is to die for, I haven't tasted this flavor in such a long time. It's 95% accurately to what I had over 35+ years ago when I was a kid. Some prices are good, and some dishes are a bit pricey. The place is spacious, tons of parking. Dim sum prices are good. They can generate more business if they do the 3dish& soup combo like in flushing. This would also help out some of the single working...

I hate to do it but this food was really bad. Service was terrible too. We were surrounded by maybe 8 waitstaff that were loudly having a conversation over our table while completely ignoring us. The fish tanks were scary, dirty with one fish literally rotting as it swam. Chunks of flesh missing from the barely swimming fish. The rest of the tanks covered in a thick green algae. The food, everything was super gloppy and kind of tasteless. I dumped vinegar over everything to get it to taste something: Let me break down what we ordered.

Beef with pan fried noodles. Literally just brown colored water with goop and corn starch. first time i have ever been to a chinese restaurant where they served food under cooked. normally all the proteins are hammered, this time it was rare.

lobster with ginger scallion. Perhaps the smallest lobster i ever saw. like there is a lobster tank but they didn't go into the tank to retrieve our lobster. The lobster meat was tiny and stuck to the shell, resulting in every piece of lobster being shredded by the time it came out of the shell. The sauce was literally just unpeeled slices of ginger with maybe three of 4 3 inch pieces of scallion.

Cauliflower with smokey bacon was again covered in a thick stArchy sauce. no smoky bacon, it was chinese sausage and cauliflower in a non described white sauce. No wok hay, it was like boiled cauliflower served with boiled lap cheong in a sauce where i can only imagine it was water with corn starch.

Fried garlic chicken, was the only thing worth mentioning and it was average at best.

Yikes. Only saving grace, it was byob but yeh, no would not return under any circumstance.

It appears that people come here for dim sum more than dinner. we also tried a har gow it was perfectly acceptable as it was a frozen product. Maybe stick to things that they purchase frozen and reheat.

I live in New York City but I have been to some wonderful restaurants in Edison,...