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| - I've only eaten here twice, but each time was an impromptu affair that left me thinking "I really couldn't have picked a better place".
My first time visiting the restaurant was a fluke happenstance. My girlfriend and I were hungry and walking in the general area looking for restaurants that were still open. The store itself is situated in a very unassuming location and almost mends with it's surroundings. Indeed, when one thinks of a quality hole-in-the-wall establishment, Golden Stove definitely fits the bill.
Upon entering, the employee/owner of the restaurant looked up from his chair and eyed my girlfriend and I down. He muted the volume on the TV show he was watching and approached us and asked if we would like to stay or take out. I said we'd stay.
The restaurant was empty so my girlfriend and I had a fairly roomy experience. The TV was softly humming as we looked over the menu. It was your standard selection of chinese food. As my eyes skimmed over the combination plates, I had to do a double-take. The prices of these combination plates were low. Suspiciously low. I had to assume the portions must have been tiny. Still, I took a leap of faith and ordered a combination plate that included chicken fried rice, sweet and sour pork and an egg roll. My girlfriend picked something similar, but with Chicken Balls.
The order took maybe 10 minutes to arrive on our table but when it did, my jaw hung low. There was a lot of food. An impossibly huge amount of food for 6 dollars. I couldn't believe it. It tasted great too. Salty and savoury to the right extent and just filled the palette with enough variety that I found myself mellowing into a mild stupor while shovelling food into my mouth.
The owner sat with us for a moment to ask how the food was, to which we responded very positively. He asked if he were from the area, to which I said we've been around for less than year. He told us that the restaurant was a very exclusive restaurant and that he typically only served people by word-of-mouth and that the restaurant itself is only open for a period of 4 hours every night. We just happened to walk in at the right time. I told him that I we were really lucky to be just walking by. He smirked and said something that no restaurant owner has ever said to me: "Well, the service kinda sucks but the food's pretty good, right?" and with that he walked back to the TV and started watching it again.
We were halfway through our meal when I realized we couldn't eat anymore so we took the rest of the meal to go. To which it served an entire meal again by leftovers alone.
I've since gone again and ordered the same meal to see whether or not was a fluke, but this time it was to go. The food arrived in a plastic bag and the quantity, as I had hoped, was insanely huge. My girlfriend and I ended up eating it together and we still couldn't quite get through all of it. The only downside, if you want to even call it that, is that the establishment only accepts cash, but that is something I could have expected easily based on the overall look of the place.
Only open between 6pm and 10pm, if there is even the slightest craving for chinese food, the Golden Stove definitely scratches that itch in spades. Strongly recommended.
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