Golden Woks — Restaurant in New York

This place is the best Americanized "Chinese" fast-food in Manhattan. Look at me. I would know! Usually, you'll find the best Chinese fast-food in the poorer neighborhoods of the outer boroughs, and they'll use the worst oil and cuts of meats but soak it in enough sugary thick sauce possible to somehow churn a profit off a $4.95 lunch special, with SOUP INCLUDED! And you know what? That thing will be the best meal of the day whether you're hungry or not because that's just how it is with Americanized Chinese fast-food. What compelled me to write this review, you ask? I've searched everywhere for some decent, terrible-for-your-health, good ol' fashioned Chinese fast-food in Manhattan and these fake chefs always make it taste bland like it was a Panda Express. I had given up all hope of ever finding a decent place until I wandered aimlessly in this clean, and clearly wealthy-ish neighborhood, hungry as hell, when I thought I saw what I thought for sure was an illusion, but as I got closer, there it was! There was no mistaking it. It had all the signs of a typical Chinese fast-food joint including the menu of the dishes, the delivery bikes and delivery guys coming in and out to pick up the orders--everything! I ordered the General Tso's with a hot and sour, and let me tell you, the chicken was crunchy and sweet, with a tinge of spice, and the broccoli was crunchy and perfectly-cooked to pair with my pork fried rice, perfectly oily with that nice wok flavor. While the taste was awfully close to the taste of the more ghetto neighborhoods I grew up ordering from, there is a discernible upgrade in the ingredients i.e. oil, chicken cuts, vegetables, and the hot and sour soup was clearly cooked with care so make sure you check that out if you go. All in all, I am taking the time out to write this because I am so grateful that this place exists in a nice neighborhood. By the way, the glass window deserves some kind of cleanliness award because you NEVER ever see such clarity looking into a Chinese fast-food restaurant like this. It was so so clear and clean-looking it really gave me a moment to reconsider if I really wanted to try their food because like I said, I didn't want a sanitized Panda Express dinner. 5-stars for the food, 6-stars for the cleanest restaurant window glass in all...

Ordered for the first time last night, never again.

You cannot fathom just how bad the food here is. Nothing tasted right or good. The rice had a off moldy taste to it, the soda was flat and the food was covered in soo much grease and oil that spices and sauces just couldn't stick to it.

To make matters worse the person taking the orders could not seem to understand what we were saying making placing an order frustrating. After making sure she got the address right we thought we would get our food soon, we were very wrong. We had the deliveryman call us yelling six times to verify the address. Told it to him six more times and then had him yell at us at our front door saying we lied about our address. ????????

The food was horrid. The chicken and vegetables tasted off and wrong, and almost flavorless besides that because of all the oil. You cannot imagine how much oil there was. The chicken wings were just gross. We ended up trying a little of everything, making faces, and tossing it all. We hate to waste food, but I think any more and we would be suffering from food poisoning right about now.

This place needs a whole new staff before they start killing people...

So the last time I ordered from this spot 2 months ago food got here pretty fast, as expected since they are only a 3 streets down from me. I Work in the neighborhood and cant always leave my work so i have it delivered. When it arrived and i put $2 as the tip, the driver looked at me weird and said “only $1? are you serious?” the total came out to be $12 so i told him yes. I just called for a delivery and i asked to make sure that there is hot sauce packets as they were forgotten last time i asked, the person on the phone talked over me asking for my card information so i repeat to make sure that there is hot sauce packets. He replies “yea yea yea theres going to be” or something along those lines so i told him to calm down. I receive the food and there is only one packet of ketchup. The attitude people got here is disgusting, it is a wealthy neighborhood but there everyone doesn’t have money that they could just throw away for bad service other than getting here on time, i appreciate the...