Bill and I just discovered a golden restaurant to return to again and again.
The Golden Garden is comparatively new in our little town of Lexington, Virginia. It specializes in Sushi and Pan Asian Cusine. “What is Pan Asian Cuisine?” I asked Google and came up with foods originating from the greater continent of Asia including, but not limited to, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, and Indian.
Let’s try it,” we said.
Over the years we have devised our own criteria list for ranking local restaurants:
- Must be quiet enough to talk without yelling,
- must be very clean,
- have pleasant wait staff,
- and hopefully serve great tasting healthy food.
The Golden Garden surpassed all our criteria. The restaurant is quiet enough, very clean, and the staff are lovely, kind, eager to please and welcoming. Not only is their food delicious but it is beautifully presented and there is so much of it, you inveitably wind up boxing up for lunch the next day.
We were so impressed with this new restaurant in our little town that we returned for dinner the following week. I loved the Shrimp with Mixed Vegetables (with optional White Sauce and Brown Rice) and also tried their Wonton Soup, Spring Rolls, and the Seaweed Salad – all truly scrumtious! To give you an idea of the size of the entree, Bill had General Tso’s Chicken (see photo below).
Bill’s General Tso’s Chicken after he added rice on top and stirred around the initial presentation.
I wish I had taken photos of the entrees as they were presented, as yet untouched. Guess I was too eager to dive in!
Anyway, if you live in or near Lexington, Virginia, or if you are simply visiting, remember that Dor highly recommends The Golden Garden.
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