Golden Star Chinese Food — Restaurant in Redding

The staff here are good at following directions and we’re polite over the phone. The prices are average for family style Chinese food. The actual food, however, I found wanting. The general chicken was probably the only decent dish out of the group that I ordered. The breading was a bit much, but that’s usually the case with pre-frozen meat at most restaurants. Taste wise, I liked it, but it’s not something I can eat a lot of because it does get overpowering.

The green beans in the shrimp with green beans was very uncooked. The shrimp itself was overcooked and the green beans were basically raw. I had to pick out the shrimp and recook the green beans myself. The shrimp was very rubbery and tasted too fishy (fresh shrimp does not taste this way). The green beans were likely frozen before cooking, based on the texture and color. Personally I think having fresh green beans or at least regularly refrigerated ones is not too hard an ask. The Mei Fan tasted ok, a little greasy, and the added texture of the extreme amount of beansprouts they added did nothing to enhance the flavors. In fact, it would have been better if they were not there. The beef in the Mei Fan was chewy like gum. Lastly, the steamed rice was a bit soggy, but it was edible. Overall, I probably won’t eat here again. If I had any advice to the restaurant, it would be to put more explanations into the menu on what each item is/has in it. I found myself very confused because some of the food titles were not indicative of what was actually in the food (with the exception of the main meat or vegetable). For example, if I had known there were bean sprouts in the Mei Fan, I would have asked that it not be put in. If you do eat here, I’d consider choosing more American-styled dishes, since those dishes seem to lean towards the better...

I have been here a few times now for different settings. Once was a fairly large take out order. The second time was comfort soup, and this most recent time was a dine in experience. Each and every time, I have been greeted with such enthusiasm. My order has always been correct and delivered in a timely fashion. My dine in experience was fantastic. We show up, we were immediately seated, couple if minutes, the waitress was there taking our food order, and what seemed like a short time, we had our food. Not once were we bothered with "how is your food" while our mouths were full. We were given our check WITH our take out boxes. The food was super tasty and full of flavor in everything they served. I highly...

No masks required, so unsafe. Food was good, but it took them 2 hours to prepare it. They’re doing takeout only, and when you order online for pickup you are told it will be ready in 15-20 minutes. When you show up in about 20 minutes the nice cashier tells you it will be a few more minutes. Since you don’t want to wait inside with a whole bunch of others who are waiting, half of them w/o masks, you wait outside in the rain... and wait... and wait...and wait. Seriously, there’s no point in not having inside dining if you fill your restaurant with unmasked folks waiting for their food for two hours. Seems like they were having a bad day, but they really should require masks...