I ordered a chicken pad Thai (spicy level: moderate) and an egg roll. Food was hot, crispy and fresh. It is quite a good option since there are not many food delivery places in Chambana. Would have been 5 star if the delivery were made under an hour. read more

Golden Wok - Chicken pad Thai. A HUGE portion - this is like only 1/3 of the whole thing. - Thai Near Me - Champaign, Illinois

We ordered delivery mid-afternoon on a Sunday. The online ordering was not working so I called and was pleasantly surprised to speak with someone who was able to take my order in coherent English, as this has always been an age-old problem ordering Chinese food over the phone. Delivery time was ~45 minutes, which seems to be the standard in Champaign-Urbana, no complaints there. We ordered Chicken Yi Mein and Sweet & Sour Chicken with a side of egg roll and egg drop soup. My Yi Mein was just fair, the thin noodles were interesting but overall I thought it was bland. It looked like the sauce had pooled up at the bottom and it was almost all liquid. The quantity of chicken to vegetables to noodles was also kind of unbalanced, I thought. My friend's sweet and sour chicken was much more flavorful and tasty than my dish, I probably should have ordered that. He also liked the egg-drop soup. However, the reason for only 2 stars comes from the egg roll. My friend found a very small chunk of what he believed to be plastic inside the egg roll. We tried really hard to identify the object but gave up out of disgust. I don't think there's anything that justifies this, and coupled with my underwhelming Yi Mein, I probably would not order from here again. read more

Delicious Thai food the leftovers even tasted bomb after a day! Haha and they were very fast and customer service was great.

Just had to say something......I went in today (Fri) for lunch and go the special which was Pad See Ew. I ordered it medium spicy. A few minutes later.....like actually 3 minutes, it was ready. Took it back to the office and I have to say it was fantastic. Everything I've ever gotten from this place just nails it for flavor. The only knock would be that you can see the kitchen and it looks a bit disorganized and the decor is kind of plain, old, and grungy. Definitely a dive, but that doesn't bother me. I go to restaurants for the food.. First and foremost. The people are very friendly there and the prices and portion sizes seem reasonable. read more

Pad thai, pad see ew? Well here's probably one of the best places to go in champaign for it. Prices are average, but you can ask for double noodle for around 1.5 dollars more which really makes the portion of the dish extremely sufficient for hungrier people. Going to have to say that the double noodle makes this place extremely worth it and definitely my favorite thai place in urbana / champaign. read more

Golden Wok is one of those small niche restaurants in Champaign. It doesn't get a huge amount of foot traffic through it and is located on the border of one of the sketchier areas in Champaign, but the food is good for what you pay for. A typical entree might be $8-9 (which is expensive for Champaign IMO). But you also do get lots of food. My favorite dish here is Beef Pad See Ewe which is the long noodles with broccoli, bok choy, and beef. Put a little siracha sauce on it and you have a really tasty dish. The restaurant is family owned and they seem to be there all the time. They are really good about phone orders and being fairly quick about bringing dishes out, though sometimes they might forget something. You just have to have thick skin when going into the place, because you might not get the best service. The downside of this place is that it just seems a little bit dirty. The tables are a bit grimey even after they wipe them down. And you have to clean up everything yourself. But the family is super nice and the food is good and there really is no Thai place like it in the Champaign-Urbana area. Other popular dishes I see people get are: Pad Thai Red Curry Green Curry I give it 3.5 stars, but not enough to round up to 4 on the food alone. read more

The Mongolian beef felt good. Good temperature. Reasonable prices on all items on the menu. I was disappointed that Golden Wok does not accept American Express. read more

Food was priced average ($8-12), and my order came quick. This place is more of a counter order restaurant, so it's almost serve yourself. Anyway, my order came very fast, within a few minutes. The veggie and sauce mix was really tasty, but the meat (I ordered a chicken dish) was not too good. In fact, it tasted like turkey. I probably will not go here again. Also, the workers have a hard time speaking English. It was hard to understand them, and I was note sure my order was being communicated correctly to them. The restaurant is also really tiny. Don't let it scare you away though. Try it out, it might suit your fancy. read more

I've been here twice so far, and I love it. I haven't been let down yet. I ordered in restaurant both times. The food was fresh and prepared quickly to order. Dishes I've tried: pad see ewe (beef), red curry (chicken), massaman curry (chicken), sticky rice with fresh mango, and thai iced tea. I love pad see ewe, and Golden Wok makes it spot on! I have no complaints about any of the dishes I've tried. I haven't had the pad Thai, but I am more of a pad see ewe person myself. The massaman curry is exquisite. The Thai iced tea is refreshing, a great complement to a delicious Thai meal. I rarely get to find sticky rice anywhere so when I saw that Golden Wok serves it up with fresh mango, I had to order it. So good... The portions are good for multiple persons. If you love Thai food, give Golden Wok a try! read more

Definitely not impressed. Asked for fried rice, told them to make it hot. In stead I got some oily and greasy fried rice. With every bite I had to mix Siracha just to make the dish edible. It simply spoilt my hunger :( read more

Golden Wok - Thai Near Me - Champaign, Illinois

This is my favorite place to get pad thai in Champaign. It's incredibly yummy and a good deal considering how much they give you. I can usually eat it for lunch and still have more than enough for dinner. Their Thai Iced tea is also worth the $2.10 price. The food also comes out pretty fast. Try to stop by during their lunch specials. It's an entree, fried rice, and an eggroll. Their fried rice is ridiculously good and their eggroll is perfect... they're stuffed with noodles inside. read more

I love to order lunch from Golden Wok. Their food is always fresh and they are so prompt. My favorite to order is the pad Thai.

The chicken pad thai here is a staple for me. The only downside? University Ave. is a bit off campus, especially in the northwest corner. However, the food is savory and perfectly seasoned, not to mention they always have siracha at every table in their cafeteria-style restaurant. Brought my dad here one time, and he really enjoyed the pad thai. I have also ordered and enjoyed the green curry here. Pretty authentic, given they use several authentic ingredients, including the green gourd-like vegetables in the stock. Great food, great price, not so great location. read more

Totally my favorite Chinese spot on campus! They offer so much food and just pile it on till the container gives out. Quality/Quantity? Who really cares when you're in college. I appreciate the drive through aspect of this restaurant and they do have a nice daily lunch special for when I can't decide. The owners have always been really nice and throw in a few egg rolls for me and my boyfriend. Try the Mongolian Beef as stereotypical as it sounds. The beef is tender, the veggies crunchy for the most part if you get it at the right time of day and for less than $10 a day, you can feed two college students. How much better can it get? read more

I have ordered twice now from here and both times good food. but one complaint is the drench of sauce they do. i pick up my order and theirs sauce all over when i take it out the bag at home Mongolian beef and the pepper steak are good dish read more

Love getting their takeout!!!! Always so yummy and do a really good job on their red chicken curry read more

Hainan chicken was just ok. Chicken was a little dry but sauce was good. There was one more dish with veggies and fried meat, that was good.

The food was so good! I got the garlic chicken with fried rice and my boyfriend got the combination rice. The employees were very nice and helped us through the menu. read more

I was pleasantly surprised! The other two Thai restaurants in the area which I have eaten at were closed so I decided to give the Golden Wok a try due to its good reviews on yelp. This place is really easy to miss because it is a tiny building that does not look anything like a Thai restaurant. The restaurant was completely empty when we got there but while we were eating there was a steady stream of people coming in to order take out. We ordered the Tom Yun Koong, Yum Nuau, and Jungle Curry. Tom Yun Koong is a soup that is exactly the same as the traditional Tom Yum soup found at all Thai restaurants and it came with shrimp. The soup was delicious, but definitely not the best I have ever had. It had the prefect amount of heat, the shrimp were not overcooked, and the vegetables were nice and crispy. Yum Nuau is a spicy beef salad. I always order this dish when i go to a Thai restaurant and I have to admit that this salad had some sort of different spice which was very tasty. Again, it was not the best I have ever had but it was deliciously unique. All the vegetables in the salad were super fresh and the quality of the beef was excellent. Jungle Curry was very confusing though. It came in a big bowl with a ton of fresh vegetables and wonderfully seasoned chicken but the sauce was some sort of chicken broth with seasonings. I thought that they brought me the wrong dish but sure enough it was the Jungle "curry" that I had ordered. This was the first time I was served a curry dish which did not consist of coconut milk. It was very tasty though and I was not disappointed that I ordered it. In the future I will definitely always ask for the ingredients in the dish before I order it. One other complaint was that the menus are very simple and do not have pictures or any sort of description of the dishes. This would be nice but not a big huge deal. The service was excellent and the people working there are very friendly. I would definitely recommend this place. read more

Outstanding Pho, spring rolls and Thai salad. This is top quality food and a sound bargain. The staff was friendly and helpful. We got carry out and all was hot and well prepared. read more

This was FANTASTIC! I ordered a lil late and it came out delicious! Taste is stellar and heat is perfect, got moderate and spot on heat. Delivery driver was super super nice. I will definitely order again!!!! read more

This restaurant really isn't that great for vegetarians. I just ordered the schezchuan vegetables and the vegetable tofu spring rolls and paid high end prices and recieved really low quality ingredients. It was the saddest vegetable dish I've ever had. It was the base for my husband's schezchuan chicken. Limp mushrooms, onions, mung bean sprouts, green onions, carrots and like 3 baby corn. It was cooked to death. 9 dollars for white rice and old vegetables. No thank you. The spring rolls were also really bad. It says tofu when you order, what you get looks like beef and taste like seitan and... I just dont trust it. The spring rolls are just composed of that weird meat looking stuff, ice berg lettuce and carrots. Thats it. 2 of them, 5 bucks. Could use cabbage or cucumber, herbs (cilantro?) or basically just more than 3 super cheap/confusing ingredients. Husbands chicken schezchuan was just my dish with chicken. read more

No complaints. Delivery was quick and the food was delicious. I got the Mongolian Beef with fried rice and a vegetarian egg roll, I would recommend. read more

Best thai place in town. The setting is not that great, but their food is the best. It is a family owned and operated restaurant. They very nice people. Prices are very reasonable as well. read more

I always order either the fried rice or the Pad Thai with Thai ice tea. Price is pretty reasonable for quality and portion they give from their food. Not a fan of their slickness level because I accidentally ordered moderate once and it was too hot for me. But overall I keep coming back for more. Will try other dishes for sure. read more

all three stars go to the delivery guy. My phone was dead when he tried to call me and so he had to wait outside the gate until someone else came in. He was super nice and kind. About the food, i ordered the shrimp tom yum goong, As soon as I opened the delivery soup cup it was so covered with mushroom. I like mushroom the ones in the soup tasted so bad. And the soup was just tooo weirdly sweet for me. I guess I ordered the wrong thing, but think twice before you order the tom yom goong. read more

Best Thai food I've had for the price in the CU area. Definitely a delivery favorite. Their Curry's are outstanding and their noodle dishes are on point. I havn't tried any of their Chinese food. I've only ordered off their traditional Thai menu. They also make a really good Thai iced tea. I've never dined in, Ive only gotten delivery but I was always very satisfied. read more

Ordered shrimp with lobster sauce and beef panang curry. There were literally only six tiny shrimps in the whole dish. The beef panang curry was very watery with a few small pieces of beef at the bottom. Both items were also bland and tasteless. Very disappointing. With so many good Asian restaurants in town, I would recommend giving this place a miss. read more

This place has great food! I love their Kung Pao Chicken lunch special comes with fried rice and eggroll for $6-something. It looks like a hole in the wall type place, but really does have awesome food! Check it out! read more

Fried rice was good. But rice noodle(pho) was... Well, I didn't enjoyed it. I want to visit next time without ordering pho. read more

Our delivery took almost two hours. When we called to ask why they simply said "we are busy and we will get there when we can." Don't offer delivery if you aren't staffed properly. The delivery driver confirmed that "his boss needs to hire another driver" Won't order from here again. read more

Great Pad Thai. They're sweet and sour chicken was pretty good too. They're kind of hidden in the alley now since the building next to them went up but definitely worth finding. read more

Definitely not my favorite place for Thai food, but it's alright. The place is definitely not very clean, including the bathroom. My go to is usually the yellow curry and pad thai. In my opinion, Green Basil is better (sorry, not sorry!) read more

Ordered some food to bring home from here. It was honestly average quality at best. The egg drop soup was watery and not edible. We were not able to finish it, and we normally finish our food. The egg roll was disappointing and had no flavor. The chicken and vegetable entree were decent (the carrots and mushrooms were pretty good), but the portions of it and the rice were pretty small. Overall, don't expect too much and you will be satisfied. read more

Update: I went back twice: first for beef pad kee mao and second for the roast duck with noodles. The beef pad kee mao was a disappointment. I wouldn't have known any better if I had never tried this dish at the other Thai places on campus. So it's not that it was inedible or unappetizing in any way-- it was just lame. Poor variety of vegetables and offensive reliance on cheap, filler food (i.e. noodles). Yet it was about the same price as the better places. Honestly though, if not being compared to anywhere else, this is a decent dish. The roast duck with noodles, hovever, is not a decent dish. The roast duck was exactly as bad as I had remembered it (see below). The dish was 5/6 noodle (again) and some veggies. The 1/6 that was technically duck was 3/4 bone. It was unpleasant. From the Yelp photo, I thought the duck cuts served here would be nice, thick slices of soft meat. What I got was one drumstick and part of a thigh that was hacked into pieces with the bone still in. Not pleasant to eat at all. I'm perplexed that this is what passes as a duck dish. Where have the standards gone? It rattles my mind. I get that the photo is not of this dish, but I could reasonably expect that a duck dish doesn't mean drumstick or that most of it would be bone. Who even serves a drumstick as part of a noodle dish? I think it's reasonable for this style of dish to be boneless or have more cutlets mixed in or perhaps it should be renamed to specify that it is a duck leg. If you ordered chicken pasta would you really expect that it would be a bed of pasta with a drumstick on top? No, I know you wouldn't unless it specifically said so. You would think it was a pasta dish with boneless little pieces of chicken mixed in or with slices on the side. No one would ever expect that a chicken dish would be served the way the duck dish is served here. It would be called "Pasta with 1 Piece Drumstick" or "Pasta with Chicken Leg", not "Chicken with Pasta." I believe that they're cutting corners. The little meat that was tossed in was, again, difficult to chew and was burned in some places to the point that it was inedible. I really wanted to like this place because everyone who works here is super cool and the service is awesome. That's why I gave it multiple tries. Also, huge portions don't matter at all if it's overwhelming rice or noodles. I hope people see the light. Here's a star bump for good service though. --- My friend and I came here. He got Chinese, I got Thai. Both of our dishes were hard to finish. The duck was strange and powdery and dry. Far too crispy with little meat. We both tried a very long time to figure out why this place had such stellar ratings on Yelp since the food was rather unbrilliant. Turns out, we were looking for Golden HARBOR. Our taste buds knew something was wrong before we did. Oops. Off-by-one-word error. read more

Y'know how sometimes in life we learn lessons in our heads but it never really hits home until much later? The mantra of "never judge a book by its cover" became real to me the first time I dined at Golden Wok. It was a scene worthy of a movie - dramatic music, slow-mo closeups of pad thai flying everywhere, and fat tears of epiphany rolling down my cheeks to salt up my food. Not that the food needed any more salt or additional seasoning anyway. In direct contrast to the squat (one could even go so far as to call it ugly) exterior, the dishes are pure decadence in your mouth. Yes, the pad thai is awesome but people, let's stroll down some paths less taken, shall we? Pad see ew is also good, though in my opinion, perhaps a bit too much sauce. My favorites would have to be the Golden Fried Rice (offered only on their Shining White Board of Specials) and the Beef Noodle Soup. The Golden Fried Rice is curried, pineappled, raisined, egged goodness. Sounds weird but the lesson here is "never judge a book by its cover", remember? The Beef Noodle Soup is perhaps a direct cousin of Vietnamese pho. I've never been quite sure whether to go ahead and give it the pho label because it just never seems quite..... pho-y enough. But irregardless of labels, its exactly what I find myself ordering when it's blizzarding and I just want some hot broth and flavorful noodles to fill me up. The curries are also excellent. Hell, just go ahead and order everything. I'm pretty sure you can't lose. Could it get any better? Why yes, it can, rhetorical question asker. With giant portion sizes! Unless you're of the same breed as some of my male bottomless-pit friends, be prepared for leftovers. Advice: noobs should go with an experienced G-Woker. It's a hidden gem - emphasis on hidden. read more

Thara Thai is closed today, so we thought we would try another Thai restaurant. It says on their main page that they are known for pad Thai dishes, which is what I normally get anyway, so I ordered the chicken pad Thai. The servings are huge, but not plentiful. Meaning there are a ton of noodles/rice, but almost no chicken or veggies. There was also almost no sauce on the noodles, it tasted either watered down sauce or just plain noodles. It was very disappointing, and I left feeling hungry still because I don't enjoy eating plain noodles. My dad ordered cashew chicken, which he thought was decent, but I didn't enjoy that either. However, we did order crab Rangoon which turned out to be very good. The crab Rangoon is was prevented me from giving this place a one star rating. Go to Thara Thai, it's authentic and plentiful! read more

I have ate here once but that's not why I'm writing this. I was sitting outside of the parking (before they opened) and witnesses what appeared to be a manager or owner walking out of the restaurant smoking a cigarette. Hope you like a little ash in your rice. read more

On time, food was hot and good would order again... great value plenty of food ... I'm sure everything on the menu is tasty had the pad Thai and egg roll read more

I decided to try Golden Wok after a bit of a vacation from greasy Thai food, but the management as well as the food quality appears to have changed. I have never had worse Tom Kha until I had the misfortunate of eating there last week. read more