Golden Wok — Restaurant in Raritan

Update: 8/2025 - This place used to be great and have quality food and meat. Its been slowly going down hill. They've been changing the type of meat they use in their boneless spare ribs and even the chicken in chicken broccoli is different. They used to give a really good homemade duck sauce and they changed it to a cheap sauce. They've been changing their food to a cheaper quality and if they think the customers can't tell, they're wrong! I've came here for years!! Now I will have to find a new location that gives me quality food for the high prices I pay! They lost a customer to their greed instead of quality that they used to give! Their family who started the business 30+ years ago would be ashamed!

This is my go-to American Chinese food restaurant every time! They make great food, and their chicken is good quality, not the cheap chicken you get from all the other places. Their general tsos is excellent and is mostly chicken, unlike other places where it's mostly breading. The Kung pao chicken dish is excellent as well and comes with good fresh vegetables, unlike other places that give you cheaper vegetables like peas, carrots, and chopped celery. The bbq boneless spare ribs and egg rolls are good, too. Sometimes, they tend not to dry the cooking oil off the egg rolls, which is disgusting. I definitely recommend over any other American Chinese restaurant. The only dish I didn't like was their pad thai. I tend to go to an actual Thai restaurant for that now. It wasn't bad. It just wasn't the...

Let's get this out of the way: I have been coming here for almost 18 years! Even when the place was on it's old location on 202. Now.... it's been so terrible of late, I can't come back.

1. the service Very unfriendly, hardly any words exchanged. During my entire lunch, the only sentence produced by one of the wait staff was "are you ready to order". No other word. They sullenly walk around the room, dragging the heels of they flip flops across the room as they shuffle by with a light frown on their faces. They must hate their job, their life - or both.
2. The food Out of three items I had, only one was nice (the dumplings in spicy broth, my go-to-dish in all those years). The sweet-sour soup was so thick with (MSG? Gluten?) that you almost felt you could stick a spoon in there and it won't fall over. The General Tsao chicken was rubbery, the fried rice bland.... I couldn't eat half of it.
3. Atmosphere The USED to have real silverware, porcelain plates... like a "real" restaurant. Now: my food was served in to-go containers! All of it. The soup, the dumplings, the chicken: all in plastic to go containers, just without the lid. I guess saves them money for dish-washing. Horrible.

Sorry guys, whoever the (new?) owner is, your take-out rate appeared good (5 to-go orders were picked up while I had lunch) but I won't be back. It's time to...

Of all the food places I’ve been to, they’re the best. The food is really good and fresh and the restaurant is very clean if you’d like to eat indoors. The people that work here have a lot of integrity. They’ve called me up before apologizing for missing something (when I didn’t even notice) and offering refunds. They’re also very quick. Portions are generous but they’ve also included an extra egg roll here and there. I have no complaints and only...