Golden Palace Restaurant

The Golden Palace is located just over the horizon, you can’t see it but it’s up there in a high up, out of reach, top of the world place. There inside are novelists and fine musicians, building great works of art.
It’s all going down at The Golden Palace!
Now. Here. This.

Golden Palace is great! This is the best Chinese food in the area. We had been going to Lilac Blossom for Chinese food for a while, but it has seemed that the food there was getting worse. We gave this place a try and we are not turning back.

Having been to the Golden Palace a number of times over the past couple of years I have yet to be disappointed. With a staff that is always friendly and service that is always prompt are some of the reasons that I will continue to return.
It tends to get extremely busy during the holidays but is just as good any day of the week. The all you can eat buffet has all the favorites including lo-​main, sesame chicken, crab rangoons (my favorite), and scallion pancakes that are cooked just right and always fresh.
Also, for the families they have a scoop your own ice cream for the kids and some really good scorpion bowls and mai tai’s for the adults. If you like American Chinese and are in the area be sure to stop by.

My family uses to get take out from here all the time. Something happened and the food went downhill. We boycotted it for a long time and went to the buffet on day and I don’t know how we didn’t get sick. Jade dragon is our new go to place in Milford.

I have been coming to this restaurant for many years and have never had a bad experience. The owners/​staff are incredibly friendly and always remember my name.
The food is Americanized but always delicious. They serve large portions of food that is always served hot and fairly priced. They don’t skimp on takeout either (I have noticed that many other restaurants in the area give smaller portions for the same price when you do takeout).
The drinks are excellent as well, they pack quite a punch (especially the mai tai and the scorpion bowl).
Golden Palace certainly has my vote for best Chinese in the area!

Aweful. I hate to say that, and I would like to be able to recommend this place, but i cannot. Sorry guys. There are other, better chinese restaurants in Milford to choose from. I would.

I stopped in at Golden Palace for lunch very recently. This full service Chinese restaurant offers the standard Chinese dishes, Pad Thai noodles, a healthy food section (steamed dishes) plus house specialties including Szechuan Three Delight, House Special Lamb, House Special Duck, Sizzling Beef (or Chicken) Pot, Lake Tung-​Ting Treasures, just to name a few.
See the menu at
21 Combination Specials served all day with pork fried rice and choice of appetizer ($ 6.95-$ 8.50 same prices for lunch and dinner) are also offered and a daily lunch buffet is served until 3PM with around 40 items including the standard Chinese dishes, appetizers, soups, and dessert (hard ice cream), pricing in ⁰⁵⁄₂₀₁₁: ($ 7.25 Adults/​$ 6.25 Kids (6 – 10)/$ 2.95 Kids (3 – 5)).
However, when I arrived here around 2:00 PM, the place was quiet and the food on the buffet was sitting out for a while, some items dried out, and trays empty. I decided I wanted fresh food and decided to order from the takeout menu instead. I got the Combo 7 ($ 6.95 plus tax): Vegetable Lo Mein served with pork fried rice and egg roll. As I started to read the Boston Globe (restaurant copy), the food came out quickly in about 5 minutes.
The Vegetable Lo Mein was freshly prepared and had a nice mix of fresh sauteed fresh vegetables including carrots, onions, cabbage, sliced mushrooms & sprouts tossed in a mound of firm noodles, not too greasy. The pork fried rice (light brown color) was okay, which had a soft mushy texture with small traces of egg and tender pork pieces. The egg roll was decent which was stuffed with a blend of shredded cabbage and ground bright red pork inside a crispy egg roll wrapper.
Overall, the good portion of food was a pretty good value for under $ 8. Next time, I’ll have to get the General Gau’s Chicken (Combo 10) based on the other Unilocalers’ recommendations.
3.4 stars

Whenever my boyfriends dad is in town from Long Island, he ALWAYS buys a bunch of Chinese food from here. It’s a guilty pleasure eating here…
The staff is absolutely wonderful, and they are amazing about refilling your water glass. Which I love. Their takeout is extremely fast, and eating there is typically very quiet. It’s not too overpriced either.
If your hungry and want some cheap Chinese food… Golden Palace is your place.

This place uses so much MSG that one time I almost fell asleep leaving the reseraunt on my way back to work.
The buffet really, is just ok and the weekday lunch is the only reason I would ever go. There is ALWAYS an issue with your take out order and always attitude from the staff. In a couple of instances we have experienced people getting very belligerent about not being seated, or not handling the people waiting for pickup. It isn’t a coincidence, the service is the worst, especially when they are busy. Consider yourself luck if you get a glass of water or a clean table.
Avoid at all costs.

The bf and I get takeout from here relatively often when we don’t feel like cooking and feel like treating our bodies badly. There is good Chinese and there is bad Chinese food in America and Golden Palace is one of the «bad» Chinese restaurants. That’s not necessarily a negative thing to say about the restaurant. Bad Chinese food definitely has it’s place in American culture.
9 times out of 10, my guilty pleasure from this place is the General Gau’s Chicken combo plate (with Crab Rangoon of course). I always feel awful after eating it because it’s one of those bad-​for-​you-​meals that taste so delicious that you just can’t stop. You’ll end up finishing the Chicken off and even though you smartly changed into comfy sweatpants before commencing the meal, you will feel as though there must be a hidden button somewhere that must be undone! General Gau’s chicken is sweet, savory, and just slightly spicy. Each bite is coated with just enough sauce and it stays on the chicken rather than pooling on your plate. The Crab Rangoon is pretty good too, but really, it’s crab and cream cheese that is fried, how can that ever taste bad?
So you must be wondering what I order on those 1 out of every 10 times I don’t get General Gau. Unfortunately, I have yet to order any other item on the menu besides the Gau more than once. Why? Because I’ve been hugely disappointed each time. Here’s a couple of examples:
The Hunan Chicken, loaded with fresh crisp steamed veggies and tender pieces of steamed chicken, has a pleasing texture but no flavor! Again, a major gripe of mine is when restaurants label an item as «very spicy» yet I can’t even discern a hint of chili pepper in the dish. Give me spice, give me heat, give me flavor! A bland, watery, brownish sauce gathered at the bottom of my takeout container. I felt like they must have given me the wrong dish and some poor fella across town must be burning his tongue on my real Hunan Chicken. But probably not.
The Sweet and Sour Chicken comes with that childhood favorite and familiar viscous sweet cherry/​pineapple sauce, and the heavily breaded fried chicken fingers. I must have been nostalgic for my more carefree days as a kid when I ordered this because I did not remember it being as sweet as it is. Don’t get me wrong, I expected sweet, but I also expected sour, but what I got was about 3 cups worth of maraschino cherry flavored jello (with some extra sugar thrown in!) and greasy flour dumplings that had minuscule amounts of meat inside. If this is how it is always been I guess I’m not surprised since as a kid I would eat whole containers of cake frosting and not bat an eyelash. So maybe I’m not a traditional sweet and sour chicken kind of girl anymore, but either way, this was gross.
Pros:
General Gau chicken is consistently really good (for bad food!).
The staff is friendly and the restaurant is clean.
The food is ready in less than 10 minutes most of the time and it is cheap. John and I can usually eat here for less than $ 20.
Large portions and the food is always hot.
Cons:
Can’t seem to find any other food there that I like!
Trust me, just order the General Gau and crab rangoon combo (#10) and leave it at that.

I finally had a chance to visit this restaurant. We went on a Sunday evening for a quick meal.
The food is definitely the best in the area, and can easily compete with the best Chinese restaurants in Nashua.
The service was very friendly and attentive. We decided to go with the combo meals as the prices seemed unbelievable. I got the «General Gau’s» meal that came with a generous helping of Gen Gau chicken, pork fried rice, and choice of appetizer (I went with Crab Rangoon). My wife got a combo that came with boneless pork, chicken fingers, pork fried rice, crab rangoon, and an egg roll. (Great for sharing with our 17 month old!) Speaking of children, the waiters loved to entertain kids and are very friendly.
The food came out in less than 10 minutes and it was very fresh!
They obviously change out the oil in their fryers more often than the rest.
We were shocked when the total bill came out to only $ 16.69 (even after NH 8% tax). That was by far the cheapest dinner we’ve ever had in a restaurant and were well full.
This is now our default Chinese restaurant. They have a lunch buffet, which we plan to visit soon, for a mere $ 6.25 per person (and only $ 1.95 for chlidren under 5).
I now know why it was voted «Best in Monadnock region». Cheers!