Golden Village — Restaurant in Ogallala

This was one of the best rated food joints in town, so we tried it last night on our way through. It wasn’t anything spectacular, but it wasn’t bad either. I’ve been to a lot of poor Chinese food restaurants lately, and this was better than most of my recent experiences, but didn’t particularly impress me either.

We ordered a couple of appetizers, a couple of soups, and 3 types of chicken.

Soups came out quite quickly and were fine. Egg drop soup and hot and sour soup. The kids and I liked the hot and sour better, but hubby liked the egg drop better. We thought that both could have been a bit more flavorful though.

For appetizers, we had egg rolls and cream cheese wontons. Both came out fairly soon after the soup, and were very fresh and crispy, so that was nice. For the thickness of the wontons, we would have appreciated a little more of the cream cheese mixture, but they were still enjoyable. Egg rolls were good enough too. Nothing too special.

The chicken dishes we had were cashew chicken, Szechuan chicken and General Tsao. The cashew was decent, but not terribly flavorful. Lots of onions and green bell peppers. I don’t think there were cashews in the dish, but they were piled on top. The general tsao was breaded and had a decent flavor, but was unfortunately quite tough to chew. I usually love breaded chicken, but it was a bit much for my jaw. The Szechuan was not breaded and was also decent, but not very flavorful. The chicken was very tender though, so that was good. LOTS of carrots and onions in the Szechuan. It also had a crown of broccoli around it, which made it prettier. Both the Szechuan and the general tsao had a little bit of spice to them, but nothing crazy.

The chicken dishes came out with one big plate of rice that looked kind of yellow-orange. I am not sure what made the color, as I really didn’t detect much flavor. Hubby thinks oil made the color, and it was a little oily—so maybe he was right.

The elderly gentleman taking our order was kind. He was also the one to bring us all of our food. I think he might own the place? All of the food came out in quite a timely manner. We did have to wait a bit for the check because he was taking the order of a very large group, but probably only waited about 10 minutes after finishing eating.

The bathrooms could have used a little bit of attention, with a bunch of paper towels/toilet paper on the ground by the walls, but I know it can be hard for small places to do everything at once. At least there was a changing table in the Women’s restroom though. Also, they’re single-user...

Yum yum yum here I come. 😋 What a great way to start my day by having lunch at the Golden Village. A Chinese family owned restaurant. I walk in and I'm greeted right away by the owner and he had a seat ready for me. Prompt service is always appreciated and he was right on top of it. I had hot tea 🍵 and it was brought out In a mini teapot along with a sipper cup. 🫖 My Wonton soup was superb in texture, taste and presentation. Now comes the main lunch. I ordered the sweet & sour chicken 🐔 with fried rice and a vegetable egg roll. Perfectly cooked white meat inside a flavorable breading with a light orange sweetness of sweet & sour sauce and nice BIG crunchy pieces of onion and green peppers. The presentation of this delicious lunch is so inviting. I just love the partition plate, so colorful and large. I didn't know what to eat first. Soup it is! 🍲 The owner likes to up a bit and I'm guessing maybe a little encouragable. 😆 Don't be afraid to say hi to Steve when you go in. Thank you Steve for the spectacular customer service!...

I made the mistake of ordering to go by walking in. The lady at the register kept ignoring me and taking phone orders. When she finally acknowledged me she told me it was going to be a while as she was taking table orders now. I patiently waited and when it was finally my took my order, She said my order she let me know it was going to take 20 to 25 minutes, Maybe longer as she had a lot of orders in front of me. We'll of course she did. I returned after 30 minutes to pick up my order.And it was a little bit of a wait still, but they finally brought it out to me.Did not even say thank you.And I just walked out. For somebody That was just passing by your little town And hope to visit soon again.I hope your service improves. Ps the rice...