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| - I'm not sure if the past reviewers on here have had much Chinese food or if my order was placed during a busy time period where it was neglected and rushed, but my experience with Golden Moon was quite subpar. Sure, the price is right, but when it comes to buying food already prepared, quality always trumps quantity. Having never been into the restaurant to rate the service or ambiance, I can only review the delivered food I ingested.
The Sliced BBQ Pork, coming in at $11.95, consisted of a heaping portion of pork large enough to feed a small family. Unfortunately, the pork had fattier cuts, some almost inedible as they were essentially just chunks of pork fat. The soy-and-oyster-based sauce they used was minimal. The key here is hoisin, a key ingredient that I didn't taste in this dish. Have you had unsalted fatty pork before? It's an accurate way to describe how these slices tasted - chewing on flavorless fat.
The Chicken in Curry Sauce ($12.95) was not much better. The sauce was watery, bland and once more lacking adequate sodium to bring out the flavour. A lot of people love to hate on MSG. I'm by no means claiming it's good for you, but that Umami flavour it brings out in Asian dishes is half the reason you keep coming back to the buffet. Dare I ask yet another question - have you had unsalted curry sauce on meat before? It's totally vile, seeing as how curry is naturally bitter, so it absolutely must be balanced out with salt. Back to the dish - the veggies tasted pretty fresh - albeit totally flavourles - and the meat was not under or overcooked. 3/5 for this one, but it could have been a 4 with more flavour.
The Special Fried Rice, ringing in at $10.95, was filling but nothing memorable at all. It was slightly soggy and sticky - a losing contender to real fried rice. The shrimp was definitely overcooked and the pork chunks were hard as a rock. I tossed half of it away after eating the meat.
With so many restaurants offering a variety of Chinese food, I find it extremely difficult to understand how places like Golden Moon stay alive. The food was boring, tasteless and unimaginative. I don't order take-out or delivery simply for the pleasure of dropping $50 on food I can make at home out of very few pantry ingredients and a frozen tray of meat. The restaurant business is a competitive one and run-of-the-mill Chinese establishments should start taking themselves more seriously in an ever-changing market.
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