{"id":9947,"date":"2019-04-07T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=9947"},"modified":"2019-11-14T14:33:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T19:33:59","slug":"golden-bowl-the-average-chinese-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/9947","title":{"rendered":"Golden Bowl: The Average Chinese Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Grace Nordquist–<\/strong>Golden Bowl is a Chinese restaurant known for staples such as sweet and sour pork and sesame chicken. Its affordable pricing makes it a friendly option for college students, yet it\u2019s a bit of a drive located at 1408 Hamilton Blvd in Sioux City. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mo and I visited the\nrestaurant on a Saturday evening around six pm. The building itself is smaller and\nseats around 30 people. Its decorated with typical art work you would see at a\nChinese restaurant, like pictures of trees and flowers with different Chinese symbols\nhanging on the walls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Golden Bowl is a casual “sit down and order” style restaurant, but Mo and I called and ordered ours to go because we had to be somewhere by 6:30. We called about 15 minutes ahead of time and our food was ready when we got there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mo ordered sweet and\nsour chicken and I ordered chicken and broccoli. The dinners are served with\neither fried or white rice and two crab rangoons. We both chose fried rice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing Mo noticed\nabout her dish was the chicken had a fake red color to it. This made Mo a\nlittle hesitant when trying it, but diving in she said it was \u201ca good first\nbite.\u201d The red came from the sweet and sour sauce which is the same sauce they\nuse for dipping crab rangoons. One complaint Mo had about the dish was the\nlarge chunks of green pepper. She didn\u2019t mind the carrots, but wished the green\npepper had been cut smaller. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both or dishes were\nfresh and hot, both visibly still steaming. I thought my chicken and broccoli\nwas cooked well. I don\u2019t like when the broccoli isn\u2019t cooked long enough, but\nthere was just the right amount of crunch. There was also a good amount of\nsauce on the dish. I thought it was an average chicken and broccoli dish, comparable\nto ones I\u2019ve had before. The crab rangoons, on the other hand, were some of the\nbest I\u2019ve had. They had just the right amount of cream cheese and crab\nflavoring. I also like that they give you two because it makes it perfect for\nleftovers the next day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over all, Mo gave\nher meal a 6.8\/10 rating. The fake red coloring and large pepper chunks were\noff, but the rest of the dish was good. She gave the service a 9.2\/10 rating,\nand said the lady who waited on us was nice. For the atmosphere Mo gave it an\n8.5\/10 rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, I would\ngive my meal at Golden Bowl an 8\/10 rating. It was good, but not anything too\nspecial. The service I would give a 9\/10, it was clear and easy to hear them\nover the phone when ordering and the food was fresh when we got there. The\natmosphere I would rate a 7\/10, it could\u2019ve been a little cleaner but it wasn\u2019t\ntoo bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would recommend\nGolden Bowl for someone looking for typical Chinese American food, especially\nif you like crab rangoons. I would go again, but also think Panda Express is\njust as good and closer to my location. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Grace Nordquist–Golden Bowl is a Chinese restaurant known for staples such as sweet and sour pork and sesame chicken. Its affordable pricing makes it a friendly option for college students, yet it\u2019s a bit of a drive located at 1408 Hamilton Blvd in Sioux City. Mo and I visited the restaurant on a Saturday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":9948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4287,54020],"tags":[53869,53868,46880,53871,53870],"class_list":["post-9947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-food-and-drink","tag-chinese-americanfood","tag-goldenbowl","tag-msidelife","tag-pandaexpress","tag-siouxcity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9949,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions\/9949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}