Golden Kirin

Always served hot! the food is the perfect balance of sauce and never sogy. Great lunch specials that includes tea :) always super busy ! Is down side.

Stopped in at lunch which has a really scaled back menu, but he method to the limited menu madness is that your food is delivered fast and fresh.
I opted for the combo which included sweet & sour pork. The pork pieces were pretty large and tough, but at this place they actually give you a knife which came in handy.
Service was decent as my tea didnt remain empty for long.
Id be interested to see how the quality of their dinner differs to lunch.

Interesting place but no rice noodles, only Lo Mein. Far corner of the plaza. Clean look with Chinese water brush paintings, tables are spaciously placed. Dinner specials for $ 7.25 but only on Sun — Thu. Reasonably priced. Very good flavor and taste of Chinese cooling.
My shrimp and scallop speciality was tasty with a gentle smooth flavor. All ingredients tasted fresh, especially important for scallops. $ 11.25.
Excellent service. Constantly checking and bringing water/​ice.
No desserts on menu.
Worth returning to try other dishes if the chance arises.
Rated 4 * due to cleanliness, service and taste suitable for us.
22 years in service confirmed by manager.

The restaurant is excellent. I had the egg drop soup, egg roll and the sesame chicken. The egg drop soup was made like it suppose to. The egg roll is bigger then most Chinese restaurant which is a bonus! The sesame chicken was freshly made and tasty. I would highly recommend this restaurant. The owners are Chinese so you’ll have authentic Chinese food not the Americanized version of it. The place is clean, small and friendly.

Trying out a new place and I’m very disappointed. Ordered Kung Poker Shrimp for take out and it came with 5 piece of shrimp and a bunch of veggies. The fried rice was dryer than steamed rice. Only thing good was the Ragoons. Won’t be going back.

The food was good, but not worth the price. You get there and everything is an «extra charge» for what would normally be free choice at any other restaurant. Not likely to return.

Horrible Togo service. My soup was put in a paper bag so when I got home all of my food fell into my lap and car when I picked it up. Nobody answering the phone. Last time I go there.

Best Chinese food in town, and with great prices, lunch special for 5! … plus a really relaxing music. The place its kinda small and not fancy but the food Mmm… and good customer service too.

Started with the shrimp toast which never seizes to amaze me, tried the (#17) Chung bo steak for the first time which consisted of beef tenderloin with a green onion & ginger sauce and it was very tender and flavorful; I will definitely add this dish to my growing list of favorites from this very friendly family owned restaurant.

Good food. The egg drop soup was tasty. Friday’s lunch special was fried shrimp with won tins w/​fried rice. with tea, with bowl of egg drop soup came to $ 6.01. Worth the visit will definitely return. Give it a try.

A friend at work suggested this spot yesterday while we were at work, raved at how awesome the food is and how great the staff is. I check my handy Unilocal for reviews and see all sorts of great praise and great reviews on the service and food.
I go this afternoon before work to grab some lunch to start my day off. This location is not up to par at all in my opinion when it comes to «good food». They were extremely busy and there was a long line of people waiting to be seated to eat, which normally isn’t a big deal but there was no real sort of lobby or area to wait in, you are basically crammed into the front door with people trying to pay at the register and other people trying to come in to dine.
That sort of issue I can look past when the quality of food is great and the service is good… neither of these were what I ran into at this place. The server took a few minutes to come with drinks, we were ready to order but she had to go deal with other times too, so she came back again a few minutes later. The food came out in a quick and timely manor, however it was sub par. The sweet and sour pork came to me cold, the breading on the meat was soggy and lacked depth of flavor, the sauce drenched everything and was too sweet in my opinion. The eggroll was AWESOME though… the one saving grace. They were too busy to come back for refills on drinks until we were basically finished eating which didn’t sit well with me either.
I’d say overall for getting a lunch special with fried rice, an eggroll, and a tea for $ 5.30 is a great deal, but for the hassle of waiting in a busy line and the unsatisfying meal I will not be back again.

1^st time here… Leaving very full and happy. Won ton soup was different, filled with vegetables, very good. Service was quick and courteous…
Couldnt believe they’ve been in business in the same location for 21 years. I’ve lived in the area all my life and have never stopped in. I look forward to my second visit!

Gross. What wasn’t deep fried was slimy. I stopped by Golden Kirin on a whim to feed my kids and Unilocal reviews weren’t uniformly unfavorable. MISTAKE! They are out in the kitchen now making mac & cheese. And these are kids who will try anything, Huge Thai & Indian food fans. The vegetable mix was mostly cheap – mushrooms, bamboo shoots, carrots, and very few snow peas. I think the orange sauce for the egg roll was maybe marmalade? It wasn’t very expensive and the lady at the register was nice, but still a waste of money if no one will eat it :(

Typical Chinese fare. The food wasn’t bad, but wasn’t great either. What makes this place so special and why I gave it four stars is the service. Our waitress was so cheerful and friendly that it made an impact on all of us. The place was small but there were a lot of people there. I think my lunch special with tea was something like $ 5.70 If your inside Fred Rd and you have a hankering for some Chinese food. Save you some money and go to the GK.

I eat here about once a week. Why? It’s good food, cheap. for under 6 bucks, I get the full lunch + tea, and it’s Super Fast. The wait staff could be a little friendlier, but I don’t care. I’ll keep going back.

Great Chinese food! So affordable and so delicious! I absolutely love their sesame chicken, crab rangoons, wonton soup, shrimp toast, eggplant dish… I could go on and on! We’re pretty much regular customers here because its just consistently good. The staff here is great too! The service is quick, friendly and attentive! Love it!!!

I really liked this place. Went here on a random Friday night for some take out and was not disappointed. I got the sesame chicken which came with steamed rice. The portions were huge and quite filling. I also got a side of crab meat ragoons and those were good too. The food was made quickly and I could tell it was made to order. Definitely did not taste like it came off a steam table line. I can’t wait to go back and check out more of their dishes.
They only have dinner specials Sun-​Thursday but have a combination plate of steak and either lemon chicken or something else (can’t remember) daily which seemed to be a pretty good deal.

I think it was the #5 that I got. It had broccoli, chicken and shrimp in a white sauce. It was very good, simple, but had a great flavor and was cooked perfectly. Also got the wanton soup to start with. That was surprisingly good because it had a few vegetables in it as well as shrimp in the wanton, which I have never seen before. So in my best Borat impression «Very nice, I like»!

In a city of swanky joints like P.F. Chang’s and Mi Tierra’s, where you have to know which is your soup spoon and which one is you salad one, it’s nice to find places hidden on the beaten path. It most cases this is where the true flavor of our city resides. The Golden Kirin, a little gem hidden in a strip mall in Balcones Heights is such a place.
It’s tucked away around by Planet Fitness and a Rent A Center. If you are not careful you will miss it. When you get there you can smell the sweet scent of Chinese Food cooking. Mind you this is not some place where there is some stuffy maitre’d. It is as basic and bare bones as a spot that you will find. It is small and quaint, but still there is room to sit comfortably without helping a patron with their Won Ton Soup.
The décor of the place is pretty outdated and they were playing soft rock over the restaurant, but not annoyingly loud. It does seem a bit beat down, like this place has seen better days. Our server came and brought me a menu. The menu itself is pretty simple and basic: veggie delight, pork, orange chicken among some other items. I noticed that the prices for plates and everything else was cheap and affordable. So I ordered the Lemon Chicken (Que typical!)
And the service? Well, it was excellent!
The server was very attentive and never rushed you to make your order. The food came out nice and hot and more importantly it was Fresh! What makes it so awesome was that I saw the same server a few minutes later taking care of a table with a party of twenty people and did not even flinch. And two seconds later he had a pitcher ready to refill my cup with water. And yes, the food was pretty darn good!
My only critique is that you have to pay extra if you want fried rice in lieu of the steamed one that comes with your plate, other than that there were no other complaints I had.
So if you want to go to place where the chef throws a knife up high in the air, then catches it and cuts your shrimp. Or you expect to see the same pan your desert will be served in to be torched into a thousand fiery flames by a cook, this might not be the place for you. But if you want good Chinese Food at cheap prices then go check this place out! While you won’t see an Iron Chef frequenting this place anytime soon, your wallet and stomach will be much fuller when you leave.

Golden Kirin is delicious! Egg rolls are to die for! Service is attentive, friendly, and fast! Cheap, yummy Chinese!