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| - With very few Chinese restaurants in the Champaign area, Golden Harbor has little competition but nonetheless does fine on its own. The menu was staggering...there was no way going through the whole menu would've been feasible (pro tip: definitely go with what you want already in mind). Came with a bunch of friends so was able to try little bits and pieces of their platform menu, and was fairly satisfied with the food. The fried tofu tasted like agadashi tofu, the pork belly had a nice skin:fat:meat ratio, and the basil eggplant was properly soaked in oil.
Definitely couldn't give it more than 3 stars though, because what the Golden Harbor excels in quantity (of both menu items and food portions), they lack in quality - the taste of each dish was very similar, and nothing in particular I ate that night was memorable enough to make me say, yes! this tastes like my mom's food.
Also, one more thing: RICE. The easiest (and mostly free) thing you could do right at a Chinese restaurant is the rice. Suprisingly, very few Chinese restaurants - this being one of them - can get the rice right (because they cook it in huge batches, I suppose), and for me...without delicious rice to hold the dishes together, it's not real Chinese food.
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