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| - It's great to walk into a restaurant recommended by Yelpers and get the feeling that it is going to be a good meal. Traditional chinese decor without being gaudy. Quickly treated to free tea and served crispy, fresh, non-greasy noodles. How attentive! Even the table has the traditional condiments right on it (soy sauce, real-hot mustard, duck sauce). Nowadays you have to ask for these as restaurants are cutting down, and the mustard is not the great strong Chinese mustard--it is a watered down type. Ordered soups: egg drop which had bits of chicken in it and wonton. The egg drop was very good and the broth of the wonton soup was delicious--the wontons lacked meat inside or at least one of the wonton did not have meat but for $2.25 each I cannot complain about a thing!
Ordered Schezehan chicken,chicken fried rice and shrimp with lobster sauce. I wanted to try the shrimp with lobster sauce after the fiasco I experienced at Qwik Chinese Bistro in Scottsdale. You can read the details in that review. This one did not let me down. 12 large shrimp in a nice, non-sweet sauce with water chestnuts. Lovely and delicious. Made me forget about the prior fiasco. The chicken fried rice was a large, delicious plate of a multi-ingredient rice. Wow, and they added bean sprouts which i think really makes it even better. The Schezuhan chicken was made without breading and spicy just as he ordered it. What a great meal this was. With our check came the typical fortune cookies AND as a bonus, wontons filled with mashed bananas with powered sugar. These were better than you might expect. Such a simple treat and yet so delicious. They didn't have to do this but they did. The service was spot-on without being overbearing. I had to bag up the shrimp and lobster sauce that's how large the portion was.
BTW, pricing is very reasonable and the service was impeccable.
Thanks to all at GOLDEN GATE who made this delicious meal possible!
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