The end of an ERA. My family has been long time patrons since the Kāhala location and followed them to to the south King store. For over 30 years we have used them for take out, parties, get-togethers, and the occasional drop by to grab something to eat if we're in the area. They were Mom's "go to"- always reliable with the best crispy gau gee on the island. Well that's not the case anymore. Had dinner there last night with my wife and it was SHOCKING BAD. Like the place had flipped a switch, either with new cooks who aren't trained, and maybe new owners who are feeling stingy over tariffs?? We ordered 3 things crispy gau gee, beef chow fun, and steamed fish with vegetables. The gau gee never made it to the table, the beef chow fun was 10% beef, 20%, noodle and 70% bean sprout, and the steamed fish was a straight up disaster. Strips of cod here and there lost in a pile of cabbage and sauce.....and here is where I cringe: dare I say frozen mixed vegetables?!?!. I was embarrassed for these guys and pissed off at the same time. Dude never came to check in on us (remember.... we ordered gau gee bro?) So I go to pay the bill and it's our dude ringing me up.....he overcharges me by including the missing gau gee, which I remind him that it never made it to the table. "Oh.....sorry" he mumbles without looking up and makes the adjustment on the bill. Now Golden Duck has been pretty much ridden on their reputation solid Cantonese / local food with generous portions and good value for the money. but it's clear that those days are gone. My now dearly departed Mom would have had a brain aneurysm if she had seen last night's effort with dinner, probably would have given the old owners a proper Chinese style verbal lashing about how embarrassing that food was, how poorly it was executed, and how she had been as patron for decades now now she gets this? Sad really. Only time will tell if they can continue their takeout business. Miss enough gau gee orders there and that store phone will ring less and less. So that is the last time we eat at Golden Duck....EVER. Not even takeout. Sorry I'm not Sorry...my family has spent a small fortune over the decades at this establishment and this devolved into quite possibly the WORST Chinese food I've EVER had. P.S. - the gau gees could have saved it....but they didn't get to the table and your dude server didn't give a rats ass. read more

I remember going to Golden Duck years ago (I don't want say how long ago, lol) but recently I've been buying takeout and the still taste the same like before, still delicious. Other Chinese restaurants lack taste and I'm very happy the food at Golden Duck remains the same. I ordered takeout and got the food really fast. The restaurant is quiet and very clean. It's my favorite Chinese restaurant! read more

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Paid over $18.00 for a pound of Charsiu and at least 70% of it was fat! Normally I love the food here and go there relatively often but as far as the Charsiu unacceptable! I do realize it's pork and expect some fat but not a pound of it! Please try to do better! read more

Golden Duck - Charsiu - Seafood Near Me - Honolulu, Hawaii

I've been on the lookout for some good Peking spareribs (AKA Capital pork chops) on island that can rival those of the CA, Bay Area and the Capital Pork Chop sizzling platter at Golden Duck might be the closest I'll be able to find. The presentation of the sizzling platter gets 5 stars but the pork is a bit fatty and the batter could stand to be a bit crispier. Otherwise, it does the trick. I also ordered what I thought was supposed to be 100% vegetarian dish called Jai but after digging into the dish, I noticed what looked like little bits of char siu pork. Fortunately, I'm not on any strict vegetarian diet but for those who are, this can be slightly misleading especially when the description of the Jai dish doesn't mention any meat component. After all was said and done, it was tasty enough. Service is prompt and the right amount of friendliness. Parking lot is easily accessible and convenient for pickup. The restaurant appears a bit outdated/old inside but things were organized, neat, and fairly clean. I had a really nice view from my booth seat which made for a pleasantly ambient meal. read more

Golden Duck - Overlooking king street from window table - Seafood Near Me - Honolulu, Hawaii

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The good is there is parking and that the food is pretty good. But the advice is to get take away. I don't think the management would disagree with this advice. Unfortunately, we came to dine in and that was regrettable. The sizzling platters are great and the veg in the wonton min soup was the freshest! Gau Gee are plump and probably good when you get them hot. read more

Golden Duck - Won Ton Fun - Seafood Near Me - Honolulu, Hawaii

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I haven't eaten here in years! I ordered take out by phone. Wor wonton mein, not feeling well, the best comfort food! Drove down, parking is available in private lot in back, walked in, the order was ready, the seperated the soup awesome, I forgot to ask! It is a little bit more but it had lots of veggies, a few whole shrimps, a couple of pieces of char sui pork and the broth was hot and they included the hot mustard! A job well done! read more

This is old Honolulu. When you go out for Chinese and you walk into a crowded dining room filled with Chinese Hawaiian kapuna, you know you are in for a treat. The Golden Duck is just that in spades. Hands down the best Chinese cuisine I've ever tried. The tables were filled with customers who have been coming here long before it moved from McCully. We had scallop soup, roast duck, seafood vegetables noodles, fried wontons and Ohn Choy with Bean Curd Sauce. Each dish really brought out the flavors of the ingredients masterfully and uniquely. My friend who brought me has been coming here for over 50 years. I felt lucky to have been honored to have shared this experience with him. read more

I love the "dinner plate" special here! Reasonably priced, plentiful, and delicious! Ample parking, restaurant is clean and there are lots of tables. The dinner plate consists of Beef Broccoli, ginger chicken, sweet sour pork, fried rice, and wonton topper. I consider the fried rice here "the best" and everything else is good as well as the price! read more

Golden Duck - Seafood Near Me - Honolulu, Hawaii

Golden Duck is just good all around. The food comes out hot, flavorful, and consistent every time. Portions are solid, the prices are fair, and it's one of those reliable Chinese spots you can always count on. Definitely a go-to when you're craving classic Chinese comfort food. read more

Late night convenience... I remember Golden Duck when they were in the McCully area way before they moved to their current location offering all the local favorites and it seems like many still flock over to get their fix here. Though they do provide a decent amount of parking right behind the restaurant some street parking either free on Alder if you're lucky or metered parking on S King Street...regardless we find our way here. This night was no different as I was I need something for dinner and I wasn't in the mood for something too much or heavy as it was a long work day which then it was soup for me...some hot soup. Won Ton Mein...a local thing this light and refreshing hot soup packed and filled in a large container with won tons, char siu, and veggies which was more than enough to take care of the exhaust hunger needs...more so mom stole a few sips. Let me tell you late night seems to be their busy time as the restaurant was a full house with many still pouring in, the vibe is nice here as I walked in knowing what I was was simple and just a single item I waited patiently as they were busy fulfilling items that are ready to go to finally order after waiting for about five minutes, only to have it ready in just a few. For that reason call to place any larger order but they will take any walk ins of course as they pack in just so perfectly so that you're able to enjoy what ever event or cravings you may have. Thank you! read more

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The Chinese food here is decent. All the workers here speak Cantonese, but the food is still localized. It's what my parents like to call American Chinese food. I got the lunch plate which has sweet & sour spareribs, pot roast pork, pork chop suey, crispy won ton and fried rice ($1 upgrade from white rice). It was ok. It had good flavoring. The pot roast pork was tough. I had to keep chewing and chewing before I could swallow. The fried rice was definitely worth it for a dollar more. The sweet & sour spareribs were good. I had no idea what pork chop suey was until I had it that day. Overall the food was alright. read more

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Easygoing service and our food came out fast. Food portions is reasonable The best crispy honey walnut shrimp I've ever had, and their duck bao bun was delicious Bonus, They served the bao buns warm and soft. My dad ordered sweet and sour pork, which Im normally not a fan of but I tried theirs and it was delicious, crispy and the pork was fresh. read more

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Free parking outside of the restaurant. Parking lot is old and bumpy so be careful. Restaurant is appears small, however, there are booths located in the back. Prices are reasonable in today's time. Ordered dry beef chow fun $14.95, roast duck wor mein (soup style)-daily special $14.95 and black bean beef chow fun with broccoli in gravy $14.95. The black bean beef chow fun with broccoli was bland and did not taste good. I could not eat it. The rest of the dishes were good. I love the minute chicken cake noodles, but I wanted to try something else. The roast duck was "bony" per my guest. Service is limited here. It helps if you get their attention if you need something. Overall, I probably would not visit often. Visit on 08/22/23 read more

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I like to come here to pick up take out. It's quick and convenient. Parking is easy. Prices are reasonable. Everything is pretty good here, but the salt pepper pork chop is really tasty. I like the fried noodles too but wish it was the thinner noodles. Their fried noodles are the medium thick ones, kind of like ramen thickness. read more

Golden Duck - Specials 8/27/2023 - Seafood Near Me - Honolulu, Hawaii

It's been a long while since I've been here. Ordered family style entrees: crispy gau gee, crispy skin duck, kaisoy with garlic, chow fun with char su, beef tomato, long rice with veggies, rice, may have missed a dish or two. Large portions, all seasoned well, veggies cooked al dente. The crispy gau gee has a light tasty crust. The service fast and friendly. Limited parking spaces. read more

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Review is for Gau Jee only! When we visit and have a family gathering, we are always asked to bring gau jee. This is the only place on Oahu that we can trust for a crispy gau jee. Highly recommend Crispy Gau Jee here! read more

Golden Duck always satisfies. Wonderful food that takes me back to my childhood. Excellent service from a friendly staff that cares about the experience of their customers. Bright, clean, with well stocked shelves of goodies to buy and take home. I never leave feeling like something was missing. Thanks again for a great dinner that filled me up and left a smile on my face! read more

Golden Duck is what I call old school local Chinese restaurant! The food is comfort food for me as it reminds me of my childhood days going to eat with my grandma. I love their cold ginger chicken, black bean spareribs and crust gau gee cake noodle! Those are my go to foods for comfort! Parking is the only thing that minus out a star it's so limited. So I recommend ordering to go! I definitely recommend my fat cells always does the happy dance for comfort food! Of course I will be back! read more

One of my favorite places to get Chinese food. Not a fan of the $100 limit if you're ordering via DoorDash. When I have large orders I have to make multiple DoorDash orders for different times. I guess the restaurant can set the limit and I hope they do one day! read more

The worse minute chicken and ong choy cake noodles. Barely 2 inch cake noodle pieces. The chicken was not seared. It was small just cooked unseasoned chicken. The entire serving was drowning in gravy, soupy. read more

Great food. Love the fast service.love the cold ginger chicken.along with tjer gau gee ..the best ever.

Happy Lunar New Year! I couldn't wait for Chinese cuisine at Mom's house. She's cooking Jai (Monk's Food), stuffed duck, mochi rice, etc. for Sunday, January 22, 2023 (Chinese New Year). I decided to get takeout from Golden Duck, an old school restaurant in Honolulu, Hawaii. I think our family had gone there a long time ago with my dad. I also had lunch at Golden Duck when I used to work at the Detention Home next door. Well... I drove down Alder Street and the Detention Home is gone! (It relocated to Kapolei.) Gosh... There's a condominium building in its place. Anyway, parking is free at Golden Duck in their private lot. Enter from Alder Street, right after the restaurant. Service can improve. I called about four times to order takeout, but no one answered the phone. However, when I was waiting for my order, other customers came in to pick up their phone orders! Huh??? I placed my order with a young man. He was task oriented. He said it would be about ten minutes. Fine. I was expecting the place to be packed, but it wasn't. Maybe because I was relatively early on Chinese New Year's Eve. They open at 10:30am and it was about 11am... When my order was ready, the young man called out: "sweet sour cabbage". I stepped forward. I guess my favorite dish is kind of different or unpopular? LOL! I happily drove home with the delicious food fragrance in my car. Some gravy had spilled out into the cardboard box, but it didn't leak onto my car seats - yay! I opened each box and took photos of my Jai, Sweet sour cabbage with squid, and minute chicken cake noodle! Everything tasted great - probably because I was starving. I did notice that the Jai wasn't vegetarian because it had some rehydrated dried oysters in it. The sweet sour cabbage wasn't too tart - and the gravy wasn't too thick nor too watered down! The cake noodles weren't the hard, dry type, so, I liked them! Hope you all have wonderful meals for Lunar New Year of the Water Rabbit! Goong hee faht choi!!! read more

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Jook was way too watery! I tried other places that were much better! And two for $35 is a bit pricey

I've been here time and again and all I can say is Golden Duck is a chinese restaurant, plain and simple. Here are few things you should keep in mind 1. In addition to their regular menu items, they have daily lunch or meal specials. The only difference to the specials compared to the menu is the price with the exception of their "Chop Sui Plate" which is a combination plate. They have 2 choices, difference being pork or chicken 2. Parking plentiful; entrance from King Street 3. The dressing for their Chinese chicken salad is good. 4. Portions are decent sized; I always have a to go box when I leave But lately and as of my last experience dining there, I think something happened where they have a new cook because the broth to the wor wun tun mein was junk. Last, if you wanted a turkey for thanksgiving and you don't want to do the cooking try Golden Duck as they sell prepared turkeys for the holidays read more

Love the food Always cooked to order Awesome Cantonese cuisine Value for money Friendly hard working staff read more

Excellent jai! Large container, so don't worry about the price. The food is always great. read more

Always a good option for chinese take out. Sometimes the crispy gau gee can be pretty salty, but most of the time its always filled and crispy. The beef vegetable, cake noodles are must haves. Call in your order and it is usually ready in 20 minutes. read more

Our family's favorite go to Chinese restaurant. Yummy salt and pepper shrimp. we always order the soft gau gee cake noodle, roasted duck. Fast service and family atmosphere. My mouth is watering as I type this. read more

Golden Duck is a hidden gem. I heard about this place for years and finally dined in. The bittermelon with beef is served at many Chinese restaurants, but Golden Duck serves the best! The bittermelon was cooked to perfection; not overly cooked so there was some crunch to it. The server suggested "mild" black bean sauce because I also ordered the asparagus with pork, which also had black bean sauce. Both were delicious! We also had the dessert with almond float, but the fruit cocktail was spoiled/sour so I returned it. The server gave us another bowl with a newly opened can of fruits. Delicious! Plenty of free parking. The dining area was clean and spacious. There were many folks picking up take out orders. It was crowded with dine-ins and take outs. Price for lunch and dinner plates was very good. Serving portions for the dinner plates was huge and we ended up taking the leftovers home. Therefore, price point was excellent for the serving size and delicious cuisine. It's more economical to eat at Golden Duck than it is to eat from fast food establishments. And why not support small local business rather than big fast food giants! It's a healthier and cheaper option. I will return again. Perhaps I will try the daily specials. read more

Golden Duck - Bittermelon with beef and (mild) black bean sauce. - Seafood Near Me - Honolulu, Hawaii

Golden Duck continues to have a loyal following. It was really busy on Sunday night. I was lucky to snag the last parking stall. The food is good, not great. But there is a lot of it. Portion sizes are generous! My mom and I shared the roasted duck and ginger chicken Sunday special plate and had leftovers. There was wilted won bok (napa cabbage) between the meat and rice, which was a nice addition. Roasted duck was bony, like how duck is. Nice lacquer w/ hint of 5-spice. Ginger chicken was good, but my cousin makes it better (his had smaller, more uniform knife cuts for the sauce and moister chicken). The gau gee wasn't really crispy. They use a thicker pi or something. But super generous w/ the filling! Atmosphere is brightly lit and bustling in the way of busy Chinese restaurants. That they have their own parking lot behind the restaurant is a positive. read more

Golden Duck - The Sunday plate special: Roast Duck & Ginger Chicken on Rice. Crispy(ish) gau gee. - Seafood Near Me - Honolulu, Hawaii

the best thing at Golden Duck is the Char siu Duck and the chow Mein Noodles I always got to try the fried Rice read more

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Been going this place for years, three times a month and recently their food has changed drastically from good to mediocre and horrible. I think they lost many of their good cooks and now have beginner cooks. Had won ton mein, soup was cloudy, oyster sauce chicken cake noodles, wasn't flavored with oyster sauce and, seafood vegetables and didn't have much shrimp and scallops, mostly squid and fish, was bland. I heard from friends that this place did lose their good cooks read more

Haven't eaten there in decades. Using food delivery I ordered the gaugee min. Even if the picture shows only 2 gaugee it actually came with four. You locals are going to love this place because, dang there was so much food. I swear they used four cake noodles (extra charge) and the box was overflowing. See how huge the gaugee are in the picture. The gaugee was huge and fat, the biggest I ever had. I think I could only eat about a quarter of it. This would make a good family meal style dinner with other Foods. The only thing is that I am allergic to seafood and it contained two shrimp which luckily my dog got. Usually I don't see shrimp in this noodle type dishes but there it was. But otherwise the flavor was point on, tons of vegetables, broccoli choi sum, water chestnuts and bamboo shoots. Surprisingly the whole box was super hot considering it was so delivery so it was made fresh. Will definitely be back. read more

Golden Duck - Seafood Near Me - Honolulu, Hawaii

We ordered Peking duck. All the was still bone. Other places meat layered with 2 legs , 2 wings. They didn't offered cumber on it . Services good ,but no customer bathrooms read more

If you're looking for good Chinese that is definitely NOT Panda Express, this is the place. You must try their cake noodle which is like Hong Kong style noodles but with a Hawaiian twist. I had the minute chicken and my daughter had their tofu dish. We also had the chicken and mushroom casserole and of course the crispy gau gee which is Hawaii's take on won tons. Service was great and definitely eat family style as the portions are quite large. read more

Golden Duck - Crispy Gau Gee, Minute chicken with cake noodle, Chinese and mushroom - Seafood Near Me - Honolulu, Hawaii

My daughter requested that we go to Golden Duck. She enjoys their noodle dishes. They now offer a dine in as an option, but we ordered our food to go. We did have to wait awhile as we did not order the food via phone prior to arriving. I would recommend this if possible, so you don't have to wait. It was quite busy, and several people came in to pick up their phone orders while we were there. A few people opted to eat in. My daughter always enjoys the cake noodle so we ordered the chicken with cake noodle, and the chicken chow fun, and also the crispy gau gee. The food was very good, hot and freshly made. There were no leftovers. Definitely would like to try some new things on the menu next time. read more

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Decided to eat here for dinner. Looks like a huge restaurant from the outside buts it's dining area is an L shape that holds say about 80 people , couple round tables and smaller booths. We order combination plates about $15 each, pricey! Ginger chicken with char siu pork over rice and the other of charsiu and roast pork over chow mein. Total about $36 , ordered extra ginger sauce Only mistake was the cashier mistakenly did not make what I ordered. Instead of duck she wrote it down as roast pork. I called to advise her mistake but told her it's ok. Although food was great, I was disappointed because they got my order wrong. I was hungry and it was my first visit there. Taste Okay Returning- possibly Satisfaction- satisfied somewhat Parking limited, tight read more

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Old school chinese restaurant has been around for years at several locations. It is very popular as the food is good. Definitely give it a try. read more

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First time trying this restaurant. Did take out of 5 items for $88. Pricey for Chinese food but not top shabby Sweet sour fish - tasty! They season the fish. Jai - totally unexpected. Not what I'm used to. Noodles are the crunchy kind. Lacks flavor. Fried oysters - tasty! Minute chicken cake noodles - old school softer noodle. Needs seasoning. Salt pepper pork chop - well seasoned but little fatty for our liking. Some pieces looked like pork belly, so I can see why it's so popular. I'll be back to try even more! Great variety on the menu read more

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Definitely recommend Golden Duck! We always pass by, but never stopped here until recently. Ordered takeout and enjoyed the food. We got the minute chicken cake noodle, crispy gau gee, and beef with broccoli. The flavors were good--typical Hawaii Chinese flavors. We should have called it in but didn't. Wait wasn't too bad. There's plenty of parking around the building, making pickup easy. Overall, a solid choice for takeout. read more