Gold River

Squeezed in a line of mostly Cantonese restaurants, this Malaysian place has a very large assortment of peninsular dishes. There’s plenty of Chinese-​Malay food on the menu as well, and the fusion nature of that country’s cuisine means it can sometimes be a bit difficult to parse out which dish is from where.
What is clear is that this place represents a pretty good value, serving up giant-​sized portions for under $ 10. My entrée came with enough noodles to serve three, perhaps four people. I had take out but wound up enjoying the pieces of the hokkien char mee in the nearby Confucius Plaza.
While I’ve yet to find a place to match the quality of food available in Flushing, this will do for a very filling dinner when you are in the area.

I and my friend walked around Chinatown and decided to try this restaurant. We decided not to look up Unilocal reviews and just wanted to find a new place by chance.
Overall the dishes we ordered were good but a bit too greasy. I wish they were less oily. Other than that, the service was good and restaurant itself was clean.

Gold River, one of the many restaurants you could easily walk by without ever taking notice. Gold River is definitely off from the main drag of Chinatown and closer to the more seedy side of town but they do serve some tasty food. Gold River is surprisingly clean for a Chinatown establishment and when we walked in for dinner there weren’t too many customers granted it was 4:00 PM but hey we were all starving for calories. The restaurant owners were most certainly Chinese as they were speaking Mandarin but no matter. We ordered the curry chicken, 2 noodle dishes, beef rendang, and a weird taro dish that was filled with chicken, shrimp, and veggies. I will say some dishes were not particularly good but not awful either. Both noodle dishes we ordered were pretty ho hum and the duck noodle was downright unpleasant to the eyes. The highlights were the beef rendang that was incredibly flavorful and the beef was sooo soft that it practically melted in your mouth. The other dish I particularly enjoyed was their taro dish. Essentially it was a taro shaped bowl deep fried and the filled sauteed chicken, veggies, and shrimp. Great dish. Service was fast and the waitress was friendly so overall not a bad experience given some of the hits and misses.

We ate there today had Achat which was really good. We also had String beans with Shrimp Malaysian style with Balachan also really good and a noodle dish called Chow Kueh teow which was one of the best dishes of this I’ve ever eaten. We look forward to going back very soon highly recomended. The staff was excellent!

The staff was really really nice so I feel bad giving them a mediocre review.
I love some Malaysian food so I was excited to go to Gold RIver when I saw it across the street.
It just didn’t taste as good as the other Malaysian places I have been to to try the same exact dishes.
We had the
–Kari Ayam which is like chicken curry. It was served room temperature. It was not hot enough.
–House Special Pork with Yam which is pork belly with taro. It was served not hot enough. The fat on the pork belly was still white.
–Curry Mee with Young Tau Foo which is various stuffed items like stuffed tofu, eggplant and peppers in a rich coconut curry soup. I just thought it lacked coconut, I didn’t taste it at all, and the flavor was off. Worst curry soup I ever had.

This new Malaysian restaurant recently opened on the busy Division Street between Bowery and Market St.
We order three common dishes found in other Malaysian restaurants around Chinatown and Queens.
1. Kari Ayam– chicken cooked with lemon grass, chili paste and rich coconut curry ($ 11.95). The coconut curry was good. The chicken was just a little over cooked. The cucumber slices garnishing on the edge of the plate were cold. It was spicier then we expected. Rated ³⁄₅.
2. House Special Pork with Yam– double cook pork with yam in special brown sauce ($ 11.95). The yam is really taro. The pork was tasty but it was not heated enough before it was served to us; the fat on the pork was whitish meaning it is not hot just by sight. The special brown sauce was non-​existing; I was hoping for sauce! The taro pieces were cooked just right. Rated ³⁄₅.
3. Curry Mee with Young Tau Foo– egg noodles with spicy lemon grass coconut curry, tofu & vegetables, pepper stuffed with minced fish ($ 7.25).The coconut curry was weak and lack thickness or richness in the soup. It was spicy but lack so of the flavor I am use to. Rated ³⁄₅.
Note: décor– minimum. Seating is a little cramp. There is a table in the corner with a pole next to it. The waiter had to reach over the customer’s head to put the dish onto the table.