Golden Coin

I don’t really understand what the big deal is with this place?! The food isn’t that great and isn’t close to homemade. Although the daing na bangus was well marinated, it does not justify the $ 4 price tag considering it is only the belly side of one side of the fish. My liempo (pork belly) was hard, as if it came from an old pig. I expected better from this place considering the other pinoy businesses within the area.

The customer service is horrendous. Expect your order to be served with attitude. Not a smile or thank you to customers, just to themselves or friends. Not gonna go here again.

Located on Farrington highway by Pacific market. Small store with cafeteria style Filipino fast food. They serve the usual Filipino food and desserts. Lechon kawali, pinakbit, fried fish, etc. Desserts, halo halo, leche flan, cakes, and many more!
Food is pretty good, average tasting for Filipino food. Of my mom’s cooking is way better but food does satisfy anyone’s craving for home cooked Filipino food when your just to lazy to cook but crave mom’s cooking. They have tables so you can eat there or take out. Catering is available, reason I’m here, pot luck! I’m way to busy to slave over a stove, thank God for stores like Golden Coin.
Overall appearance is ok, run down a bit. Needs a facelift and a good wipe down. Coming back for more, I’m pretty sure I’ll have more pot lucks to go to.

Cold food. Very low quality pork. The GC on Keeaumoku in Honolulu is better. No eggs for breakfast here. A good place for Filipino breads and desserts.
No restroom facilities here.
This location could easily be improved upon and its in a wonderful business location.

I’ll give this place a half star cause their customer service really sucks! But one star is okay since their banana lumpia was good. I had to pick up a phone order on Saturday (⁰¹⁄₁₂) for a party. When I went there, they forgot to make our banana lumpia order because they said «they gave it to the wrong person». It took them 30 minutes to make it and I was really disappointed. I asked the manager if I can get a discount or something since I waited for a long time but she said they couldn’t give me anything, not even a offer of a drink or something. She said that not even her employees get discounts (wtf). So after my order was ready, they didn’t even pack it yet and let it sit. Smh. I won’t make phone orders here anymore!

This was my first time here and my last. I figure since I’m here I would get a quick bite to eat. First off the food is way to over priced and lacks flavor. Customer service SUCKS!!! When I had asked to order a BBQ beef stick with my food the lady rolled her eyes and ignored me. Finally when I got my food I noticed that my food was cold as if they just got it out of the refrigerator. I would never go back there again…

I don’t really know what to think about this Golden Coin. The customer service is ok. The prices for everything is alright. It’s interesting to see that business is still kicking despite Jollibee being right next door. I guess you can say Golden Coin is for the older generation and Jollibee is for the younger generation. So you get the balanced flow of going on. For Goldern Coin, you pretty much have your mainstream Filipino food. Ulam consisting of pancit, lumpia, pork guisantes, adobo, pusit, empanadas, chicken arroz caldo, etc. merienda consisting of halo halo, puto, ensyamada, pastries, etc. It’s conveniently located in the Waipahu Shopping Plaza right by the Sushi place and Pacific Supermarket right across. The parking is alright depending on what day and time you go. The one thing that I have against this Golden Coin and maybe just all Golden Coins is the whole inconvenient experience of waiting around for orders. One day my mom called this Golden Coin and asked to order a set of 15 empanadas. They said ok it will be ready in 15 minutes or as soon as we get there to pick it up. My mom sends me to go there to go pick it up. From ‘Aiea to Waipahu, that is about 15 minutes. I get there and they did not even have it prepped up and ready to go. Although they did have the 15 all set, they said they still had to warm it up and stuff. So during that whole process, I had to wait almost half an hour. The whole time I was thinking to myself, so what was the point of calling in beforehand to get an order ready by the time I arrived there? It was almost if I just walked in and just ordered. A lot of action and effort was wasted during that whole process.

I never knew that Golden Coin had actual food. The entrees sound good, but it none of it looked appealing enough to order when we walked in on Friday night (perhaps because it was near closing time).
We ended up snacking on a small package of colorful puto. The texture was okay but the flavoring was bland. At roughly $ 2.50, it would have been a deal if it had tasted better.
Since Jollibee is right next door, I think I’ll hold off on coming here for a while. I agree with Joy P. in that the customer service could use some improvement.

The Lechon was fresh and so delicious. f you want Ono Filipino food you cannot go wrong.

Always happy for the hot pandesal order!
Anything else I order is what ever I’m in the mood for.
Never a let down for me. Except customer service sometimes its hit or miss. Especially during the holidays.

I saw a 1 star review and had to review I’ve been here once and enjoyed it. I admittedly don’t know this type of food well, philipino I believe it was, but 2 out of 3 things I got were good. The soup I got was a little odd, I don’t like skin on my chicken because it’s slimy (I know I’m picky!) and being in soup it was even more slimy. But the potatoes and broth were delicious.
I enjoyed it. You can’t really expect great customer service, it’s a walk up to the counter and order from under the glass type of place. Pick how many items, point em out, get your to-​go box and eat there (lots of tables) or take it with you.
It was good though, and I’ll be back soon to try some other things. Can’t pronounce or remember any of the names, but the person serving me was helpful in suggesting some and making sure I didn’t pick too many items that were too similar. Worth a try for a lunch plate as long as you like philipino food.

This bakeshop lacks two important words CUSTOMER SERVICE. It happened last sunday when I called in advance to order for spanish rolls. I will be picking it up at exactly 4:15 pm. But lo and behold!!! When I arrived at the bakeshop the woman at the counter inform me that it is still baking and I have to wait. I was so in disbelief that I told her that the reason I made an advance order is to NOT WAIT and just pay the order.
They said that it is more expensive to acquire new customers than to maintain an old one. Officially, they lost an old customer by the name of this person. Let’s not forget too that their new neighbor (Jollibee) will eat them alive in the next few weeks!!! tsk tsk tsk. too bad :(