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| - i'll admit it: i've gotten old. i hate going out on NYE. i hate dealing with the drunk masses that inevitably have popped collars and think Pabst Blue Ribbon is the bombdiggity. sure, i could solve that problem by going to a friend's place to party, but then i have to drive home and let's face it, i like to get my drink on. driving home just blows. so, we have a nye tradition (in its second year) of staying home, eating chinese food, drinking, and watching movies. it works out pretty well except for the fact that we hadn't found a great chinese food place yet.
enter Golden Gate Chinese restaurant. i had driven by this place almost every day since i moved here in December 09 and always wondered what kind of restaurant didn't have windows. i'm serious. the entire building = windowless. it looked more like a money laundering operation than it did a chinese food place. since we really had exhausted our chinese options around the area, we figured we might as well try Golden Gate for new years. hell, if it was horrible, we could always have frozen pizza.
much to our surprise, we found that Golden Gate was freaking fantastic. we ordered the crab angels (crab wontons), mushu pork, veggie friend rice, and honey walnut shrimp. this stuff was like crack! i think we demolished everything. the honey walnut shrimp was a perfect combo of sweet honey and crispy walnuts. they didnt drown the shrimpies which was much appreciated. the crab angels kicked ass. you know how when you order crab wontons at places and they give you a metric ass ton of wonton and a tiny dab of crap in the middle? not this place. they were like sacks (crunchy, tasty sacks) FILLED with crabby cream cheesy deliciousness. the veggie fried rice was perfect and the mushu pork rocked. they didnt put the plum sauce in it and left it on the side so you could add as much as you wanted.
no, they dont have delivery but the food is definitely worth the effort of take out or dine in. i might even have to try dining without windows sometime :)
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