New Golden Chopstick Chinese Restaurant

6.95 a pound for lunch take out. Typical Chinese fast food. Convenient location and good for a quick in and out food grab. I had the broccoli and chicken. It was good and no wow factor.

The food lacked flavor and was severely overpriced. The place masquerades as a cheap restaurant but only captures this essence in the quality of the cooking. I witnessed a lady tie up her poor dog to a post outside in freezing temperatures just so she can get some food. This is the kind of person that this restaurant attracts. Do you really want to be one of them?

Ordered Chinese takeout from here and what a great deal– $ 7.75 for lunch special! There’s a variety of authentic Chinese options in the buffet. I ordered the chicken with garlic sauce and hot and sour soup and it tasted so healthy. No MSG and very little oil. Did I mention their large portions? Definitely ordering from here again!

So bad.
My wonton soup had raw vegetables in it (literally raw onion, raw broccoli, and raw carrot) and had zero flavor.
Next up, I ordered the sesame chicken lunch special. Specifically asked for fried rice, even paid the $ 1 extra ($ 1 extra? Every other Chinese restaurant gives you rice AND a soup/​soda with a lunch special, but okay) yet when it arrived I got WHITE rice with the delivery guy saying, «well it’s already here» when I said that it not what I ordered.
Back to the sesame chicken– the sauce just tasted like sugar. Nothing else. I had to brush my teeth immediately after eating it because I am fearful of cavities.
How people can go here 3−5x a week is a mystery to me. Not much flavor, or too much of a bad flavor.
I gave 3 stars instead of 2 because the delivery came within 20 minutes of ordering.

Amazing spot. Show me another place in Manhattan that offers this quality of Chinese food for this cheap? $ 12 for a ton of food and everything tastes fresh and non greasy. The dim sum is amongst the best I’ve had, just as good as Din Tai Fung in Hong Kong. It sounds ridiculous but it’s true. Also I’m Asian and travel to Asia every few months so I understand how good Asian food tastes. The flavor of the General Tso is perfect — a bit more on the sweet side which I like. Obviously this isn’t a fancy spot, it’s still a fast food place, but it is perfect for what it is.

I rarely order from Buffet table, because most are typical Americanized food. I ordered quite a few items from posted on the wall, which are quite good. My favorite is the Sea Bass with Rice.

You can’t have the same name as a joint I used to frequent in Central Pennsylvania and be WORSE than the place in PA when you are in NYC! What’s the deal, Golden Chopstick?
I order shrimp and broccoli everywhere. I have not been to a single Chinese takeout place in my entire life where I have not tried their «version» of this dish. Version is a loose term here — shrimp and broccoli is almost the same at every restaurant, give or take a variation on whether the shrimp is steamed, stir-​fried, battered, twice-​fried, etc. Each restaurant can take creative liberties there.
It’s always de-​veined, large-​to-​jumbo shrimp. The broccoli is usually crunchy but never raw, occasionally overcooked at a subpar establishment.
Enter Golden Chopstick.* I should have taken a picture (which I still technically can — I tossed half of it in the trash and I am not a food-​waster, to the point of much criticism — but I’ll spare you the image). The shrimp was tiny, clearly once frozen and not properly defrosted; it possessed that soggy, smushy quality that only boiled shrimp might. A few were aggressively vein-​y: the tract bulbous and black in spots… way to ruin an appetite if I wasn’t desperately hungry. I did skip over those, though. The broccoli ranged, from raw to undercooked to overdone. The sauce had a blend of different flavors than I was used to, which I could accept if they had been executed better. The sauce was runny (no cornstarch thickener, not necessarily a bad thing), but not oily, which would be the highest compliment I can offer. However, I’ll take a little fat if it also offers up flavor.
I chewed my third bite, telling a coworker that this was rather disgusting but I’ll probably finish a good portion of it because my lunch hour came three hours late today, and I was desperate. I even tried to be savvy and at least stomach all the shrimp so I’d at least ingest the most expensive part of my dish. With regard to total volume, I tossed about $ 4.50 of the $ 6.95 spent into the wastebasket.
That could have been another sandwich.
*Clearly they are more equipped to handle the buffet-style/“salad bar” lunch crowd, but that also looked extremely unappetizing and dehydrated by the time I was able to get away from my desk.

This place has a great buffet and food prices. I’m trying to go through the entire menu now.

Very inexpensive Chinese restaurant/​buffet in the Financial District. I usually go for the buffet style and get a mixture of their vegetable lo mein/​fried shrimps/​fried chicken, which adds up to $ 5 and change. Nothing exotic, but the food is tasty and fresh.

This place is cheap, fast, and delicious! A great lunch for a rainy fall day in FiDi.

This no-​frills, budget friendly buffet in FiDi serves up popular Chinese dishes that are high in flavor and well priced. If you’re in a rush and are looking for a good meal, this is a no brainer. The entire process is set up to get you in and out the door before you can say «pork fried rice»… Which, by the way, is excellent here.

Cheap and decent Americanized Chinese food. This rating is only for the hot buffet. I can fill up a small container with green beans and some type of chicken for less than $ 5.00 — which is awesome. My only complaint ist hat the chicken is usually overcooked /​dry and has little flavor — but if you try to find the more flavorful pieces in the pan you will be ok. The greenbeans are always delish.

I have eaten here for lunch a few times and its buffet style is not bad at all. It is best to come early because they run out certain foods quickly.
The place is very small. So, if you expect to sit and have lunch, there is no need. They do have about two or three bar stools at the window.
The buffet is by the pound and it can be pricey if you are a big eater. They have a decent variety of meats and vegetables.
It is the typical Chinese takeout place and for what you get in this area, it’s not bad at all.

My boss recommended this place to me and basically to anyone. I finally tried out this place one Friday and it’s cheap and delicious. Also not overly oily. I always get a small container and fill it up with beef chow fun (basically just beef and noodles stir fried), pork dumplings, sesame chicken and fried chicken. Typically it would end up costing me between $ 3-​$ 5. Definitely a great place for cheap yummy food.

So surprised to know that this is still open. I will never forget when the woman who runs the place wouldn’t let us in because she was fighting a rat of off the buffet area.
Good times.

I eat here for lunch. It’s buffet style and you pay by the pound.
It’s a little pricey in my point of view.
The food is typical Chinese take out food and the cashiers are very quick.
They have a decent variety of vegetables and meats.

This place sucks for a Chinese takeout place. The only reason its alive and kicking is because there are NO good Chinese takeouts in the area.
They have a lunch buffet full of greasy, disgusting food. The beef in the ‘fun’ tasted like its been refridged and reheated many times over. The fried dumplings was overly greasy. The fried rice was simply oily and hell, its not even fresh rice as part of it was already hard and stale.
Oh yea the price is high too (but still $, despite listing as $$ on Unilocal.) You get a discount if you get buffet after 2:30pm. But who wants the leftover of leftovers…

Price is very good. 4.75 for a quart of wonton noodle soup.
The soup has no taste but the wontons in it are good.
I probably wont be coming back here. at least not for the soup maybe for the buffet.
I had massive amounts of diarrhea from eating this soup.

Typical greasy Chinese place that I use to satisfy my greasy Chinese food cravings while I’m at work.
They have your typical appetizers, noodle soups, etc. and lunch specials at just under $ 7, but it seems that the hot buffet station is maybe more worth it. The lunch special doesn’t come with any spring roll or soup like I’m used to. I ordered the sesame chicken lunch special and it was seriously just a box with rice and sesame chicken. ugh, I need my veggies! My variety!
While the hot buffet seemed a little MEH as well, it seemed a lil more tantalizing given the different choices. At $ 5.99/lb (and $ 4.99/lb after 2pm), it may actually be the better deal.

Sometimes you crave Americanized Chinese food.
Serve yourself up buffet style, and take your food to go; there’s barely room to sit, between the heated platters of food and sweating customers. Yes, it can get hot in here. Yes, you’ll feel like their steamed dim sum plates.
Pay by weight ($ 10 credit card minimum) and don’t think about how greasy everything else is. Feeling adventurous? Go here after 2 PM to pay a lower rate per pound. Just skip their duck.
Lunch only.