Golden Sun Chinese Restaurant

We came here on a off night, and we were the only ones dining. At first, we were put off, we were served soda in cans and had feared we made a bad choice. Then the food came. All five of us had ordered meals, and by meals, I mean MEALS. Each order could feed two people. Everything was an exceptional value for the amount of good food we got.

Outstanding Chinese food in the heart of Boulder. The ambience can improve a bit though.

This is a great little family run inexpensive no frills Chinese restaurant. $6.95 lunch buffet. They're always very happy to cook you a fresh batch of whatever it is you want all you have to do is ask ???? maybe not the place to go on a first date but if you're just trying to feed yourself without breaking the bank definitely recommend it.

I was craving Chinese food after work when I found out my favorite restaurant in Boulder was closed for the night. So I relied on Google to help me find a restaurant.

Golden Sun was close and open late so I thought, what the heck, I'll give it a try.

It sits in the corner of the strip mall and is a pretty good sized restaurant.

The menu is pretty extensive with all the traditional Chinese dishes you know and love.

I ordered my favorite dishes, Sweet and Sour Chicken (2nd favorite since they don't do S & S Pork,1st favorite) Pork Fried Rice and Chicken Chow Mein.

I was surprised by the size of the serving on the plate. Definitely enough to eat there and plenty to take home for leftovers. Yum!

The S & S Chicken came in huge chunks served with S & S Sauce on the side. Although each piece of the chicken was significantly sized, it was so crispy on the outside and so tender on the inside.

The Pork Fried Rice had huge chunks of tender pork, egg and nice chunks of onion. Such great flavors.

The Chicken Chow Mein had huge strips of tender chicken & crispy noodles on top. While it was made different than what I'm use to, it was pretty good.

While I was waiting for my food, there were a ton of late night to go orders. Yes, they also deliver and it was obvious that others knew about it too.

While it doesn't replace my favorite go to Chinese food restaurant in Boulder during the day. It could be my favorite for late night. I will definitely be back. It does offer really Fresh and Hot food with a nice variety to choose from and hardy sized servings. A great value for your money.

As far as Chinese food goes in the Boulder area, this has become out primary go to location for lunch at my work. We are averaging at least 2 times a week at this point, and the food is consistently good for us. WE order about for 3 to 7 people every time from the lunch menu, and everyone usually gets the same thing they did last time because of how much they enjoy it.

The delivery is usually consistent as well as we order for a 12:00 delivery the food gets here between 12 & 12:15 which to us is acceptable given the lunch rush for Boulder. Some of the times we do have special requests with the food for things like making it spicy or no vegetables given some of our employees food allergies and they have always gotten the orders correct.

The lunch portions are fairly huge which usually lets us take at least half of it home for dinner or to save for lunch tomorrow. On the occasion that we did order the dinner portion it too was large filling one of those standard black rectangular containers completely to the top.

We find the sauces to be rich and full of flavor with very little need for salt or pepper, or any other modification to the sauce. The meats for beef and chicken have never been overcooked and are tender and flavorful. The fried rice is one of our favorites and has a really good flavor to it that isn't just wok oil and isn't dried out and crunchy.

The only negatives that we wish would be improved is with their breaded dishes like sesame or sweet and sour. The breading is kind of generic and doesn't stick to the meat at all. Feels like a really thin pancake batter type of texture and usually contains a decent amount of oil in it. The batter itself adds a weird flavoring to whatever else is with it and honestly could use some improvement.