Golden Wok Inn

Chinese is usually pretty sketchy. But we seem to really like this place! Haven’t had a bad experience yet. I’m a picky eater and I love this place. We always go with the general tsos and the orange chicken both not spicy and the fried rice. Best fried rice ever. The portions are large, one order feeds 2 – 3 people easily.

The restaurant has been here for years. Consistently good and friendly service! My favorite is General Tso with white meat. Don’t pay attention to the bad reviews. They are probably tough to please.

I had the Sesame chicken lunch portion and it was great. The chicken was quality white meat and the rice was perfect. I took a chance on this place and I’m glad I did. I would recommend it.

I am picky about my Chinese food. I love that you can request white meat only for some of their dishes and a lot of the stir fried dishes come with thinly sliced white meat anyway. Golden Wok has homemade egg rolls. I have watched the grandmother roll these and make the won tons while we have eaten there. This is not a place you go to for ambiance, but rather, a place you go to for good, quality Chinese food (and they adequately address requests to make things extra spicy) with typically quick service and pleasant staff. Over the years the owners have grown to recognize us and even remember our usual orders. Their kiddos are often around and this place if very family-​friendly. I think this place gets most of their business as take out, but if you get take out, just go pick it up if you don’t want to wait.

I have several reasons for giving this the outlier review (I’m giving it a full 5 stars versus everyone else’s 1 – 2 stars).
First of all, I don’t go there for the ambiance, and as such, in this Unilocal,ambiance doesn’t even count for 10% of my opinion for a Chinese (in this case, Hong Kong regional) restaurant. The reason for this is simple: I have never (NEVER) been to a super clean and trendy upscale Chinese restaurant in this country that has had food even CLOSE to the quality of a hole-​in-​the-​wall restaurant that serves up family recipes. I lived for four years in Manhattan and had a lovely sampling of Chinese food, but the highest quality authentic food came from Chinatown, which in NYC is dirty… the restaurants included. In San Francisco, I had great Chinese food at a similarly dingy and dimly lit place.
So to be fair, I am overlooking the atmosphere of Golden Wok and focusing instead on its food and waitstaff. The husband and wife team with their children are usually very pleasant and happy to see patrons. I am a regular patron (my whole family is), as well as our neighbors. It is kid friendly.
The egg rolls are good. I’m not an egg roll person myself, but I’ll eat them from this place. However, I did notice that recently the order size has diminished to one egg roll per order instead of two.
If you like General Tso’s Chicken (like what, 80% of people who go to Chinese restaurants), then I would highly recommend ordering it with white meat only and extra spicy. As-​is, the dish is on the sweet side. Ordering it with the extra spice gives it the burn you’re looking for. Ordering it with white meat only lets you bypass that whole «mystery meat» that many Americans swear is cat meat. The quality of the white meat is very good. I’ve ordered this exact dish for about five years from Golden Wok and have never once been disappointed. When done really well, it is better than PF Chang’s Chang’s Chicken, and when done regularly, it’s still a good rival in taste but with more chicken than PF Chang’s gives you, and without the wait that you always experience at PFCB.
I’m not sure what the Unilocaler A.R. was thinking when he called the General Tso’s bland, because I’ve yet to find a General Tso’s Chicken at a restaurant in the Greater Pittsburgh area that even comes close to the flavor here. There’s a place in Scott Township, and then there’s PF Chang’s, but it’s hands-​down more flavorful than the General from Sesame Inn, Panda Express, Panda Garden, and all of the places in the malls or which have all-​you-​can-​eat buffets.
The other clear-​cut winning dish that we’ve discovered is the chicken Mai Fun noodles. These are thin noodles. Their woks are seasoned well, and when they cook this dish you get a nice smoky flavor thrown in. The noodles are a favorite with my whole family. The vegetables are nice, but the white meat chicken (not special order, this is standard) is thinly sliced and palatable.
My neighbor and I bring guests to Golden Wok to help ensure that it stays in business because it’s close to our home and has the de-​facto best Chinese food in the South Hills when it comes to flavor. If I had to pick a second it would be Mark Pi’s China Gate, but I would pick Golden Wok ⁹⁄₁₀ times over that as well.

One word: DISGUSTING
I just moved to the area and I was looking for a Chinese restaurant that would provide good food that I used to get back near my old place.
This place is in desperate need of some deep cleaning! I was a little weary of the condition of the restaurant being an indication of how my take out order would taste once I got it home. Boy was I right! The food was bland, not at all how general taos should taste. I was extremely disappointed but grateful I didn’t end up sick, which is what I was expecting once I saw how neglectful of their cleaning regimens they have obviously been. There are much better places in the area. If I could give this place zero stars, I would have.

Ugh. This place is nice inside, but the food sucks! I found an eggshell in my chicken dish, the service was bad, and the dumplings hardly had any meat in them. I wouldn’t go back or recommend it.

Kay and I came here the other evening for dinner after having caught sight of it a few times in our travels. Golden Wok Inn sits in a little-​known South Hills shopping plaza, and compared to the other businesses nearby, its exterior is reasonably striking.
The insides are rather quaint and stylish as well, and we did not find GWI to be at all «disgusting, dark, and dingy» as one vengeful Unilocaler put it.
That’s not to say that our dining experience was flaming pineapples in bourbon, though. Putrid? No. Dull, inept? Yeah.
The service, while not atrocious, was certainly below par, and aside from a quite tasty wonton soup, we didn’t find anything exceptional about our meal.
Ooops. Wait. Kay did find something in her Orange Chicken. An egg shell to be exact. So, I’m forced to dock another star for that. GWI coulda been a 3…
The rest of the meal consisted of steamed dumplings that were filled by a miser (where’s the pork?) and on my end, an order of Kung Pao Scallops that were skimpy on the seafood and loaded with everything else, including vegetables and peanuts.
When you see GWI, I’d advise yas to just keep drivin’.

I don’t know what these other people are talking about with their review, but this place is TERRIBLE! Growing up in and still living in Bethel Park, I have tried this place several times over the past 20 years and it always disappoints. The last time I was there, I got the «Pineapple chicken» special. It was repulsive and I couldn’t even eat it. It consisted of rubbery chicken and canned pineapple chunks in a ton of MAYONNAISE! Totally disgusting. The service is awful and the food and atmosphere is even worse. This restaurant is disgusting, dark and dingy. Seriously, go anywhere else. There are plenty of other Chinese restaurants very close by.

Great food. Great service. Loyal to regulars. My «go to» chinese place.