Golden Bowl Restaurant — Restaurant in Westmont

Reviews seemed amazing so I decided to try this place out.

To start, if you enjoy seasoned & flavorful food than read on for the full review. If you are used to unseasoned food with low flavor then disregard this review as you will probably love this place.

I was overcharged for shrimp fried rice. I was told I did not specify if I wanted a small or large so they decided themselves to give me a large (being $3 more expensive than the small). From my extensive experience, it is customary to charge for the smaller size if one has not been specified, not to choose whatever size you want. I knew it would be too much to eat, but I let it go so I wouldn’t have the rest of my food gettin cold in the car while I waited for them to correct their mistake.

I ordered honey glazed walnut shrimp, shrimp fried rice, pot stickers, crab rangoon, & eggrolls.

The honey glazed shrimp sauce was pretty good, but the shrimp themselves were unseasoned & flavorless, which was very noticeable even with the sauce.

The shrimp fried rice had no flavor. I had to use soy sauce & sweet n sour packets to enhance the taste & it still wasn’t good enough. So that LARGE rice was wasted.

The crab Rangoon were full of filling, but not crispy at all. I couldn’t tell if they were old or the soggy texture is the norm.

The pot stickers were ok, but again I couldn’t tell if they were fresh or not considering the texture wasn’t as soft as it should be. It had more of an onion flavor than what I’m used to from pot stickers. The meat didn’t seem juicy. It was tightly packed so it was like a meat log was placed inside to make the dumpling. Hope that makes sense lol.

Lastly, the eggrolls were along the lines of the Rangoon where it wasn’t really crispy & it had a tangy flavor I didn’t enjoy for an egg roll.

I can get past being upcharged without my permission, but not when it’s in addition to being very unsatisfied with the food. Their prices aren’t too bad, but this is the most I’ve spent on Chinese & the LEAST satisfied I’ve ever been. I will NOT...

112120 Golden Bowl Chinese Food Fairview/63rd Westmont Heard how great this place from family and friends so I had to try it. I ordered Beef with vegetable pan fried Cantonese lo mein And Egg rolls The portions were not huge but enough for 2 days There was pickup only due to covid and there was only 2 people working in there on a busy night weekend night and the cook looked 90. The Cantonese lo mein, the noodles were thinner noodles with their version of Cantonese sauce or flavoring. Sadly there was barely any vegetables in the dish maybe a few peapods, sprouts and bokchoy. They had no crisp in them either and sadly no flavor. The beef again flat strips was mushy and also lacking in flavor. Egg Rolls Unfortunately they were fried i But not crisp on the shell and mush inside. I don't know if this place had a really bad day on my visit but with all the good reviews I was very disappointed . Carry out only, located in a small strip mall, average...

Food was lacking taste....oh you get a big plateful but hardly any taste. The waitresses are very loud and you never know which one is yours. One is putting one pot of warm tea on the turntable and ice water, another one is asking for your order, another is asking what you want to drink. You don’t know whichone to talk to.

When the food comes the plates are put on the turntable and you get to figure out which one is yours. The menu states 15% gratuity which we thought was included in our bill. I go to the rest room and as we are leaving one of the waitresses is outside yelling at everyone that we left no tip. She insisted that we give her tips. She came out not once but 3 Times yelling that we need to go back in and give them tips!!! Never again will we eat there. And as far as taste goes, we have friends from Hong Kong and have ate real Chinese food so we know good Chinese food when we taste it this food lacked...