Golden Pavilion Restaurant

Our waitress kept us cracking up the whole time. I’ll be back just for her! Great place to grab a drink, eat some sushi and watch a game.

I haven't dined in yet but when I picked my food up from there, it looked clean. They were very welcoming also. I mostly do delivery though. The delivery guy is always kind and polite and gets our food to us quick. Everything is still hot! The food is always good - I have no complaints!

Golden Pavillion is absolutely the best Chinese restaurant in the entire DC Metro area. No matter what I order, it’s always cooked to perfection! I love their Wonton soup. My favorite dish is Beef with Broccoli. It’s always cooked just right with the broccoli still a little crispy.

Another Hometown restaurant. They always treat me like family. I've been coming here for years and love the new upgrades and the full blown Golden Pavilion Theme. Golden chopsticks and all. The owners are super friendly and so are the patrons

We enjoyed our meal here! I enjoyed the gorgeous interior, friendly service and tasty food. There is an abundant drink selection, specific section for vegetarian food, and two pages of sushi options. I recommend anyone come visit, there is something here for everyone!

First time trying this place.. the prices are super high and I figured the food would be perfection but I was highly disappointed.. the generals tso chicken was too tough. I asked them to cook it tender.. and my pork in the lomein was dry. For 18.95 it was NOT worth it. Bartender was nice the atmosphere was nice though.

I appreciate that the restaurant is nice, clean and customer friendly and the food is pretty good. I do have one issue and that is that when you order fried rice without shrimp, chicken or pork, you get just fried rice, no egg, no bean sprouts or onion. I did call them to ask if you have to ask for those things to be in the fried rice and was told to ask and they will accommodate. I will continue to patronize this establishment as the food is good.

Good food, friendly staffs... Ambience is good.. feel like home 😊 .. our spots of my friends

Anyone feeling under the weather? Flu like symptoms or congestion. Try the chicken noodle soup from Golden Pavilion in Bowie, Maryland. I got the take out version today. I call this my "Chinese Penicillin" soup. Loaded with white meat chicken, noodles and scallion. Broth is not loaded with sodium or MSG. This soup is a winter staple in my house. Phoned in my order and it was ready in ten minutes.

Sorry, too many of this type of place to make it a destination food habit. Not too far from me, would have been nice to place it in my go to bag. The inside was meh, they do have a bar that was pretty full neighborhood folks l surmise. Service was a bit rushed for a half full restaurant. I had the Maryland Roll. Nope, nope,and nope. First time l had dry sushi! It was topped with crab that was stringy and flavorless. My guess had a dinner special with soup and was not impressed. Too many of these type establishments in the county to get by with meh. Throw a rock in any direction and you will hit one. Can't see me coming back to this one. 60 bucks for Meh is too expensive Save your rock for someplace else

Waited awhile to be seated even though there's a guy behind the counter who wouldn't look our way. A waitress finally emerged from the back to seat us. Place is cozy and great for families.

I must say the hot and sour soup is excellent. But I was gonna order chicken lo mein for lunch and the lunch portion was $11.50 and I thought holy crap no way, way too high so I canceled my order.

I have to give a nod to Golden Pavilion for their food and service. I went with a large group and all of our dishes came out looking great! I ordered the Ikageso Karaage for something different and it hit the spot; Not overdone yet a great crunch on the outside. My entree was orange beef. It seemed a bit heavy on the batter but I found beef in every bite, it was cooked perfectly, and was well flavored. Some times large groups can be a challenge but every dish that was brought to our table looked amazing and the service was attentive and friendly.

This is my new favorite hidden treasure, quick stop restaurants, located in a strip mall hands down! To think all of these years dating way way back to my years at BSU I assumed it was a simple carryout only. But low and behold it's a full blown restaurant with a full bar! Apparently, I'm super late to get the memo because there was plenty of customer traffic in and out of the door nonstop! For dinner, I went with the Mongolian beef which is one of my all time favs and ole reliable meals. I HIGHLY recommend it at GP as it's the best ones that I've now tasted twice there. The food is awesome, the friendly service is awesome, and Wendy & her drinks are flat out awesome!

What a hideous experience this was...it started out nicely enough: we were warmly greeted and shown to a nice booth in a very clean dining room. Drink and food orders were taken right away...and that's when everything pretty much began to go into the tank. The hot and sour soup was unlike any other I've had-very thin light brown broth but decent enough in terms of flavor. The wantons, however were stale-seriously stale-like days stale. My sweet and sour shrimp were so overcooked as to be hard inedible hockey pucks with a stodgy batter and sauce that was goopy and flavorless. The stodgy-ness continued into the fried rice which also had a weird unpleasant taste. The egg roll was burned and the filling was full of red stuff. My husband's chicken chow mein was decent. After we ate we waited...and waited...and...you get the picture. There was literally no one in the dining room. After a long time I went to the bar where there were 2 men-one on his cell phone and the other prepping the sushi area. I stood waiting without any acknowledgement even after saying "hello" -nada. Finally I went around to the kitchen to say that we were ready to pay and that my husband needed a to go box. While I was there, I noticed a bucket on the floor with some gray water and pieces of floating fish. I was so ready to love this place. I am old enough to remember a time when there were so many lovely Chinese restaurants that had beautiful dining rooms and great food. This, sadly was a one-and-done for us.

Good food here! Ordered take out for lunch. Shrimp egg foo yung, general tso chicken, shrimp fried rice. The shrimp dishes were very good! General tso tasted more bbq like, so we didn't like that dish. All 3 dishes were cooked fresh, rice was soft and moist (like it should be) and the spring roll was good too. Now I don't eat spring rolls because they are usually hard and dry. But NOT these!! Soft, moist contents, good flavor. This is actually a restaurant (not a carryout). Entrance, waiting area, and bar were very clean. Seating appeared comfortable (I didn't sit). Staff was pleasant and welcoming. There were a few customers at the tables eating also. We will be back for other menu items and to dine in for the ambience.

I have been odering from this restaurant for a while now but I've noticed that the food that I usually order has gone down in quality. I used to like the combination lo mein but it tasted different now. It is so dry and very little toppings. The steamed fish is so dry and doesn't taste fresh. Very disappointed.

I ordered takeout out on a Thursday night. Everything was tasty and hot from the egg drop soup and spring rolls to the Mongolian Beef and Chicken and broccoli. The staff was friendly and the bar was filled with Thursday night football fans.

I've ordered pick up once and dined in once. My review will focus mostly on the dining in experience. We ordered three entrees, Pork Chow Fun, General Tsos Chicken and Whole Duck. The duck was absolutely delicious and the serving size was quite substantial. General Tsos was only okay, it was quite unamusing, nothing special to discuss. Chow Fun was quite good when we ordered it for take out, but for this dining experience, we had to ask to re-cook it twice, as the noodles were still raw. The duck definitely saved this review from being a 2. I think we will come back another time to give it another shot and to try different entrees on top of the duck.

I'm giving GP (3) stars only because we haven't been here in year's. Starting in 1985 my wife and I went to GP every Friday. From '85 to '90 the food was awesome. I'm sure the original owners are long gone. Good luck to the owners who took over.

Iv'e been a customer for many years, but i,m sorry to say have stopped ordering from Golden Pavilion. They mess up about 50% of the orders we make, including wrong orders, missing rice and condiments.

Strip mall sushi. Full service bar. Huge food selections. I like it. Friendly service also.

Take out is ok. We have so few Asian places in the area that I occasionally get take out here. For me I would not eat inside. Place is too dark. The attraction is the bar and a place to unwind after work. That's fine and I think I would say check this place out for just that. You may like it.

We have been going here for takeout since 2015 when we moved to the area. I called randomly our first week in Bowie, thought it was as good as the good place near us in DC, and stuck with it. They seem to use high quality ingredients and deliver it fast. We have tried most of the others in Bowie at one point or another, and always come back to Golden Pavilion. On average, it is very good. I just wish it was more consistent the last couple of years. 9/10 times the eggrolls are terrific. 1/10 times they are cooked way too long and taste like old oil or they are way too salty. Tonight, the beef stick (the only appetizer my kid likes) arrived basically rare, chewy and inedible, although they have been perfectly velveted and crusted the last 10 times we got it. Recently the crab rangoon, which we always get, was oddly doughy, like the oil was not hot enough - not crispy with little bubbles. We often order it for family get togethers, and people like it a lot, but lately there is always one dish that is way off. Tonight it was the beef sticks, while everything else was very good. If Golden Pavilion could get it together and make it awesome all the time (instead of most of the time), I would tell everyone I know about it.

Nice place. Man I hot thos place up in a pinch and their lunch specials are the right price for the amount of food you get. The Mongolian beef is to die for. And every time I get their sushi it's nice and fresh.

The food was amazing, it was hot on its arrival, excellent customer service. The Egg Rolls very good, the Mongolia Beef was excellent. I will order again.

So, for the second time, we received a "noodle" dish via delivery with no noodles from this restaurant. Chicken lo mein came with just chicken, sauce, and onions. Pork chow mein came with pork/sauce/veggies and sprouts. No noodles. This is literally from the "noodle" part of their menu. Very disappointed. We enjoyed the egg rolls, and mu shi. The rest was just not fulfilled properly. Disappointed.

The food was delicious. We opted for the sweet and sour shrimp combination special. It was superb. Along with the soup and egg roll. The service was expeditious. We will be going back.

SOOO GOOD!! Was looking for food on Christmas Eve around 830PM and this was the only location that was open (besides the liquor store;0) I ordered the Chicken Lo Mein entree with fried rice. Came with an egg roll and soup (wonton). Crispy noodles and a few fortune cookies were also available. The noodles were sooo good! The Chicken was soooo good, i nearly ate the whole plate in one sitting. Egg roll was delish. I wasn't a fan of the Wonton soup. There is also a liquor bar where bartenders seemed to be making pretty big and delicious drinks. I'm rarely in this area but if i find myself here again, i would def. stop in!

Why does everything taste so different? The house duck sauce tasted spoiled which pretty much took away an entire star. The sweet n sour sauce was too sour. And the rice tastes like they ordered it precooked. The table we sat at was sticky which makes me worry it wasn't cleaned well. I am so unhappy this place seems to have changed for the worse. Good Chinese restaurants are hard to find and now Golden has been added to that list of mediocre not so great places. Our server was very nice though.

Food was not hot. Portion size way too small for the price. Tasted old. Not worth the money.

Very poor customer service but very good shrimp and broccoli. I also don't care for the minimum amount of wing you can order being 5

This Chinese restaurant is always my go to spot for Singapore rice noodles and spring rolls. The spring rolls are small but crispy and delicious. They are filled with veggies and shrimp. The Singapore rice noodle dish is seasoned well and it always comes out the way that I ordered (chicken, shrimp and beef with added snow peas) even though it usually takes me awhile to explain my specifications. The shrimp are a decent size, and they are not over cooked. This restaurant is more expensive than my other Chinese spot( my usual order comes to about $16), but the place is well kept and the food is pretty good. Feel free to sponsor me so that I can continue to eat here. Lol

Absolutely love this place - sushi is fresh, there are selections that you don't get at other larger sushi restaurants, the eggplant dish is the best I've ever tasted - melts in your mouth like butter, layers of flavor - YUM! Delivery service was quick and ordering can be done online which is really convenient.

The food here is really bad. The shrimp in the shumai tasted off, the dough seemed to be made from wheat rather than rice. I threw them out. The fried rice was so dry you could choke on it. The kung pao shrimp was gloppy and tasteless, and the chicken chow mein was frankly disgusting. I will never order from this restaurant again.

Not sure what is going on here. When we eat there it's good; however, takeout is gross. We got egg rolls that tasted like it was old and the soup is bland.

Simply wanted Vegan Version of Chinese food... Quick delivery, simply wished they would remove tofu from the menu until they learn how to prepare it... The broccoli and Asparagus with a brown sauce, the white rice was a bit gummy for our taste.

I'm updating this review as I feel it is only fair to note that I eat from this place once or twice a month but since its delivery, I don't bother checking in and now that I think of it, might be a tad bit unfair or misleading. Their carryout service is fast- like on a slower night, from order to door is sometimes within 30 minutes. They aren't exactly in my neighborhood, which is why that's noteworthy. Food is always delivered hot and fresh and the few times we've had a problem, they sent another driver out with the correction seemingly immediately. I give them an extra star for the excellent service we always get. Their drivers are always courteous as well. It is the little things.

Food did not disappoint and the customer service was great. Crispy Beef, general tso chicken, egg rolls, shu mai, egg drop soup and hot and sour soup all were very delicious.

Placed an order for pork fried rice and a soft shell crab, and was very disappointed with the soft shell crab(which cost $10.50). When I called to voiced my deep disappointed I was told that as an appetizer, the way it is served was fried, cut in four pieces and serve with vegetables, (one stalk of broccoli, one fried onion ring, one fried green pepper and something that looks like one piece of eggplant accompanied by their special sauce. The crab was extremely small There was no effort made to rectify the situation

The website is not updated and has wrong information on it. I'm allergic to shrimp and certain spicy foods. I ordered the spring rolls which typically have veggies in it right? WRONG. These spring rolls had shrimp in it but I had no idea and the website does NOT specify. Also, I ordered the pad Thai and the website said it was not spicy. But it is actually pretty spicy. Now I'm breaking out in hives because it was one thing after another with this food. At least the tempura veggies were good. I'm left still hungry needless to say, maybe I'll just take my butt to Taco Bell. At least the menus tells you everything you need to know. No hidden ingredients.

I came back here with the Missus to have a "sit down" dinner. It was actually pretty nice. The food was decent, the staff was friendly and efficient and the hot tea wad very tasty. this time there were plenty of vegetables and, of course, the fortune cookies. It's also very reasonably priced. So, this is my new "go to" place for a decent Chinese restaurant that doesn't cost a boatload of money.

So I have ordered from this restaurant a couple of times in the past but this was the worst experience so far. I ordered the crab Rangoon, wonton soup, volcano salmon roll and ginger salad. Because of the pandemic I had the order be delivered and when the food came it was missing the crab Rangoon. So I called in to let them know and they told us that we could wait for the order to be delivered after the deliverer came back or we could get the credit. I told them we would wait because I had paid cash but I wanted it to still be hot when it delivered. So when it had been delivered it was not hot AND my dressing for the ginger had to be expired. It had this sizzling noise before I opened it and when I did the top popped off and some of the dressing flew out too. Point blank is don't order from here customer service was horrible when we called back and I could've gotten sick if I ate that dressing.

We order 3 things... The girl who delivered my food told me it was 38$ Later I ask my brother who order to clarify how much it was... he said it was only 30.80$ tired of this place Gave them a call about it They never called me back Won't recommend ever

there is something wrong w/their online menu ordering the wrong item when you add it to the cart and they won't refund your money for their problem. ordering from their online menu is a crapshoot. i ordered a vegetarian dish and got a combination dish, something is messed-up on their menu and they said i could get an "exchange," and wouldn't refund the money. this is the second time it's happened, the first time, i thought it might've been my fault, but this time i made sure, made everybody watch me as i added sezchuan broccoli peppers and carrots, and it got changed into combination w/shrimp and chicken and pork. not ordering online from golden pavilion ever again. why in the world is it so hard for restaurants to get the vegetarian part of their menu right, if it's not one thing, it's another. boooooooo, i was soo hungry, smfh.

Good food-very nice staff inside and on the phone! The food was a bit inconsistent but they kindly remade the dish without issue! Customer service wins every time!

I recently had a party of 15 here. I was not disappointed with the food - they were presentable, delicious and served quickly. My friend said her Pad Thai was the best that she's had. Wendy and the servers were very nice and accommodating that I did not mind adding more on top of the billed tip.

Real Chinese food in the burbs. Some say they can be inconsistent and I don't doubt it, but every time I've ordered from here I get a solid meal. It's more of an American Chinese spot but compared to the local carry out type joints, Pavilion can't be beat. Stick to the staples, i.e., General Tso's, fried rice, Mongolian beef, spring rolls, wonton and you'll be satisfied. Nice family run place as well. Been coming here for years. Mr. Ken is the man and as soon as COVID is over I look forward to his waiter service again. Easy online ordering and fast delivery as well.

Nice quiet spot to visit if you are craving Chinese as often as I do, but don't want to travel too far. I'll be back...in my Arnold voice.

It's a nice friendly atmosphere with drinks, food, with the neighborhood regulars. I don't why but this establishment reminds me of Cheers. Literally everyone in that restaurant knows each other name lol.

As a LONG time customer of this neighborhood restaurant I was a slightly disheartened when it closed for much needed renovations and updating. It was good to see the grand reopening under the new name of GOLDEN PAVILION ASIAN BISTRO!!!! This is my elderly mother's favorite place, so much so that in my opinion she has single handedly helped them finance this grand reopening with all the take out orders(just kidding). I took her in to order food this past week. She ordered from the newly streamlined menu a dish made with shrimp and scallops. Basic, no big deal... I noticed on the menu that they now carry brown rice and I could get said rice as a combination fried rice (shrimp, chicken, beef). JOY! with me and the rest of America trying to incorporate healthier (or somewhat healthier) alternatives into their lives, I chose the lesser of two evils. On the menu it clearly and fairly states that brown rice (clearly a more special rice, because it is a short grain with the husk/fiberous outer layer attached to it) takes more time to cook that there's an additional $2 charge. Here's where I have a serious issue. When I asked, "is this actual brown rice OR is it white rice with soy sauce on it made to look brown", the waitress tells me, "NO NO, this rice is made early and put in a separate cooker and we make it to order". Great! I'll have that, always trying to get more fiber in my diet. When my order comes to the table, it looks like... like... WHITE RICE WITH SOY AND OYSTER SAUCE! I'm aggravated, I have to take my time to calm down, because when I ask someone about a dish, I don't expect to be lied to... I ask for one of the new manager's, and she gives me this dumbfounded look with the additionally dumbfounded explanation about white rice and brown rice. Now, being that I'm not a RICE connoisseur... there could be LONG GRAIN brown rice, it just wasn't on my plate. As not to upset my mother who hates confrontation, I tabled my anger, and paid for my meal. I'm giving this 1 star because I haven't figured out how to do a half, and because my mother enjoyed her meal. I will NOT be patronizing this restaurant any time soon. I hope that they will read this review and work the kinks out.

My opinion still hasn't changed. You really can't get a cheaper meal in Bowie for a sit down restaurant. Since the renovations, it is nicely decorated. There really is only two places in this city in which the restaurants existed from the beginning. Rips and this one. They are both still around because they offer a good value. Since it changed from strictly Chinese to an Asian bristo, I think that they excelled in Chinese. So stick to it. They are fast and the meals are tasty. The chicken dishes are larger in size and very tender breast meat is used. I'll keep coming back, and so should you.

Please do not waste your time or taste buds going here. We arrived and ordered the eggrolls as an appetizer and I had general tsos delight while the hubbin ordered sesame chicken. We did fine with the egg rolls. The main entree came out and after one bite we each agreed that this was awful and we couldn't finish our meal. The kind waiter asked if we wanted to take it home and we in unison said NO! Please don't waste a meal here.

Few might suggest so, but Golden Pavilion is a Bowie institution, as much as Grace's Fortune or Cetrone's were. It has been here since I was a kid, and probably long before I moved here. I got my go-to chinese meal: sesame chicken with fried rice, egg rolls and wonton soup. The egg rolls are good. They're not the best I've ever had, but you can count on them to be what you need when you have a hankering for egg rolls. Bad egg rolls are a deal breaker, and so far our deal is intact. The won-ton soup was the same. The fried noodles are the same. Permit me a distraction because if I've found anything its that sometimes I'll order $20 worth of chinese food just to get the fried noodles. I like East Delight on the other side of town, but their fried noodles seem store-bought and do not fill the fried noodle-sized hole in my heart. Grace's fried noodles were my standard-bearer, and East Delight falls short. Golden Pavilion stays true, but of course cannot quite live up to Grace's. The negatives start with the sesame chicken. East Delight does do this better than Golden Pavilion. You want bite-sized chicken dipped in batter and fried to crispy, coated in a sweet-spicy sauce. The chicken here is bigger than bite-sized, forcing you to half them with a fork. And there is NO crispiness. These are major problems for this dish. I can't even comment on the sauce because if the pieces are too big and not crispy, no sauce can save it. I ask for fried rice instead of the white that comes with it, and typically it is an upcharge. I hope I didn't pay one, because the container it came in was the size of a Rubik's Cube. Its not enough rice for an entree. The fried rice was otherwise fine. Finally, another reviewer said that this isn't the type of place to bring a date, and I respectfully disagree. East Delight has fluorescent lighting and bench tables, so don't take a date there; grab take-out there before you Netflix and Chill. But Golden Pavilion has much better lighting, a full bar, and the girl who cashed me out was a cutie. If you would take a date to a restaurant in a strip mall, this one is as good as any. I guess technically Grace's was in a strip mall - depending on your definition of "strip" - and I took a few dates there. No, this isn't Grace's, but on a Tuesday night if you and a long-term partner want to go out for Chinese, I'd go here before I'd trek to Annapolis or Columbia for over-priced food at P.F. Chang's. Just don't get the sesame chicken!

I had the shrimp noodle soup and the salmon avocado roll. It was very good. Just wanted a snack.

My absolute favorite Asian spot when in Maryland. Have not found anywhere comparable. Their general tao's is made with fresh (not deep fried) white meat chicken. Large serving sizes. Oh and the sushi... A real experience. I will upload photos to do the review justice!

We ordered delivery. We've ordered from here several times before but never reviewed. We've never had an issue or been disappointed. Delivery time is decent, especially for a weekend. Food has always been hot and nothing's ever been missing. We got the chicken lo mein, shrimp lo mein, orange chicken, and Kung Po shrimp. The lo mein noodles don't leave that greasy after taste that you find at some carry outs. Plenty of meat in all the dishes and cooked well. I think we all agree the best dish is the orange chicken. Huge chunks of perfectly cooked white chicken meat. It's been that way every time we ordered. There's not a lot of sauce with it if that's what you like but certainly enough to add to rice. Also, we got a wonton soup as part of the combo. Really good considering its a freebie but I'd even order it on own its own.