I am a regular at Gold Coin. Â My family and I eat there probably about once a week. Â
The ambience at Gold Coin is welcoming and comfortable. Â The building was remodeled a few years ago, and the interior is warm and pleasant. Â Bathrooms, bar and dining room are always impeccably clean and well maintained. Â
The employees are very friendly and attentive, and very knowledgeable about the menu. Â Service is always fast, but never rushed.
The menu contains many standard american-chinese menu items, and they have recently started having dinner and appetizer specials. Â I tend to want things that aren't on the menu, and the kitchen has always been amazingly accommodating, creating tasty fresh dishes for me. Â
The dumplings are house made, and are among the best to be had in the area, particularly the hong-kong dumplings they've had as a special recently.
There's something very comforting about going to Gold Coin. Â When I want to go out and know for a fact that I'm going to have a pleasant experience, Gold Coin is where I head.
Oh yeah, and they make a mean Mai Tai :)
This may be the worst chinese food I have ever had. Â The service was quick and the place is nice but when I got home I realized that they gave me the wrong order on one of my meals. Â The meat was disgusting (on more than one of our meals)...we threw most everything out. Â A total waste of money.
Review Source:This place is not your usual dingy chinese take out joint. The decor is very simple and clean. A nice restaurant for a nice quiet sit-down chinese dinner. Service is quick and attentive, tea and noodles with duck sauce and hot mustard are plentiful.
My only gripe about this place would be the food. Its not that the food is bad per se, but it is watered down. I could hardly taste any garlic-y-ness in my shrimp with broccoli and garlic sauce. It was more sweet & sour than spicy as I would've liked. Way too tangy. Their vegetables are fresh and not wilted, and you can tell the fried rice on the side is prepared in-house unlike some other take-out places. Other than the spices, no complaints about their dishes.
Being used to Chinese restaurants that are old and run down I was impressed by Gold Coin's appearance. It is in a nice little building near the Price Chopper shopping plaza. The interior is well decorated and always clean. They play classical sounding Chinese music, but you usually can barely hear it. They offer bar, table, and booth seating (which is very comfy).
The food really isn't anything special, I would say it is one step above the usual Chinese take out. It is plated nicely, but consists of the same quality of ingredients you would normally find. Not to mention that most of the offerings are heavy due to their fried and/or syrupy nature. I like to order the combo deals that come with an entree plus soup. The wonton soup is always tasty, but hard to eat with a spoon. I really appreciate that they automatically serve tea and give each table its own kettle. Plus they give you some deep fried crunchy things to snack on while waiting for your dinner.
The service is usually fast and fairly attentive. They have a bar, however, on the one occasion that I ordered a drink the waiter acted strangely and was very insulting. Not to mention that they didn't know how to make a white Russian which is an IBA Official Cocktail, duh. They seemed to be confused about their campy tropical drinks listed right on the menu as well.
Gold Coin is a nice retreat from the usual riffraff of super Americanized Chinese restaurants. The food is always solid, but the more I come here the less I like it. I wish they would offer some more authentic choices not to mention chopsticks, they don't even try to encourage people to try their culture. Personal feelings aside, if you've never been to the Coin it is worth checking out.
While I give the Gold Coin three stars, keep in mind that it's still my go-to Chinese place in the Albany area. The current building is the result of a massive renovation that classed the place up and made it feel more Chinese and less non-descript suburban bar. Service continues to be fast for both dining in and take-out. The original owner, Conrad Kung, lives locally and still knows pretty much every regular by name.
The food, while still very solid Chinese for a small market like Albany, isn't quite as good as it used to be. I like the Lo Mein, and it seems like the mix is too heavy on the onions and too light on the mushrooms and meat any more. The Pu Pu Platter has also changed relatively recently, and I don't like the offerings as much as the old Pu Pu platter. But the Won Ton soup remains tops.
I quite like Gold Coin. I hadn't been in there in a few years so today was the first time I saw the new interior. It's quite lovely and bright and much different than most Chinese restaurants. It's got cool light fixtures and it's almost classy rather than cheesy. But they still maintain the Chinese restaurant feel with certain touches, which I appreciated a lot.
My vegetable bean curd soup was delicious and was just the sort of simple soup I needed for my cold/sinusitis. My friend and I also shared a couple of tasty chicken and vegetable dishes.
Service was quick, efficient and extremely friendly. Bathrooms were bright and clean. The little descriptions of the tiki drinks on the cocktail menu are pretty amusing too.
My main complaints are that you don't automatically get chopsticks unless you ask for them, and that the prices are a little high. Basically, it's pretty anglicized, which is about what I'd expect for a sit-down Chinese place in Delmar.
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