Golden Wok

must come try sweet and sour pork. real good food for you and happy family.

i like how any positive comments left on here are ridiculous and in broken english .. hm..

I haven‘t eaten their food since I got food poisoning from the Sesame Chicken several years ago. I don‘t know if the chicken wasn‘t cooked thoroughly or if it had just sat out too long, or what. But I was up all night and -- at one point -- seriously thought about calling 911 and asking for an ambulance to take me to the hospital. No, I‘m not kidding. I was that sick.

I just really, really wish Mandarin delivered. Hmmm, maybe I should print these comments out and take them up to the owner of the Mandarin.

Avoid this place like the plague it is.

did you guys try ordering to go and when you arrived at home is it still cold??
I tried to carry out everytime and the foods are still warm and nice!!

they deliver but it is never good, ALWAYS cold and takes FOREVER

It seemed expensive for the amount of food you get. Also my food wasn‘t very warm.

Was there for the first time today. After reading the reviews I wanted to try myself. Unfortunately most reviews are correct, the food was tasteless and cold, very disappointing !

I did enjoy their food with my boys, my boys loved and remembered their fried rice, sweet and sour chicken until now.

yuk!!! Worst food ever eaten.....and I had to wait an hour for it. will never be back

This isn‘t even real Chinese food. The dishes come with no sauce, and thus there is like no flavor to them. It‘s usually cold, dry, and tasteless. Sure, they deliver, but I would rather have ramen or something than this sorry excuse for Chinese food.

Used to be good, food sometimes cold and bland.

I ordered 2 entrees and received them after an hour and 15 minutes, half an hour longer than when I was told they would be delivered. The food was cold. I asked for spicy, it was not. The food was just in general not good. The sauce tasted like bad water. The chicken was not fresh. I called to see if I could take it back in and get a refund, they don‘t give refunds, even if the food you order is nothing like what they descibed it to be. Finally, after several phone calls to the manager and to the person i placed my order with, they called back and said they would give me store credit for $5. Later it changed to $10. Very unorganized and just not good. If you want good Chinese food, don‘t eat here.

They dropped out of campusfood and now i have no way to easily order food. plus the food sucks. go to cocoast or chc

I wanted to rate this a 0, but that wasn‘t an option...Gross food with no taste and very expensive for the microwaved crap they serve. And I swear on all that is holy, they mess up our order 50% of the time. When we call they just say they will credit us for next time...Um thanks, but we were kind of hungry right now which is why we ordered...We need to get another Chinese delivery--this one is horrid!

Their food is ok, thats all one can say. but they can easily increase the quality of food and service.

I don‘t even want to give this place one star! AVOID GOLDEN WOK AT ALL COSTS. I love asian food and I try to avoid driving so I usually depend on some good delivery. Golden Wok delivers garbage at rip-off prices. Walk to Thai Kitchen or take a bus to House of Chen if you want some good food.

funny story, a friend and I used to work here and we were told to look up websites like these and give a good review. The boss himself knew his food sucked but claimed that most Americans are ignorant enough to taste the difference anyway. Since its the only chinese delivery left in town, it will continue to serve food below quality at prices above average as long as ignorant students still order them.
A little secret: they do not have regulars and they have almost none Ames local customers. Thank god I quit this place as the boss was such a big pervert too.

Terrible. Unfriendly management, disgusting food. Stay away.

This place has the best kung poa tofu in Ames! I love the big chunks of fried tofu, and they make is nice and sipcy. Lots of carrots, celery, onions, just like kung poa chicken, only tofu!

Mush shu vegetables are also delicious!!!

I absolutely hate this place. I ordered food from them probably five times, trying to try different things on the menu because I gave them the benefit of the doubt. The food is nasty. Tasteless, cold, and made from low quality ingredients. I wish House of Chen delivered.

Worst Chinese Food ever had and it took them 1 hour and 18 minuties to deliver. F- :-(

it would‘ve been a great place to eat had they answered their fucking phone. However, i called for over an hour with no answer. That is ri-god-damn-diculous. I would hope that other people do not eat here. ANSWER YOUR PHONE!!!

I like it, I thought the food was nice and okay service.

Best Chinese delivery in Ames??? That is sad. The food here is terrible.

I was in there dining in during Veisha on Saturday, they were crazy busy but their staff was very polite, and was there when I needed them. Good pricing and nice staff, I gotta say their orange chicken got me hooked. The restaurant was unsurprisingly clean for a chinese restaurant "sorry" not racist but just saying. Well its not the best chinese I have ever eaten, that would have to be in China Town New York, but that is the best I have had in Ames. DUHHH you are in Iowa
I was reading these messages, that is so funny, to satisfy the guy on the crab racoons, and the people here I guess they have to fly to China LOL!!!!!!

Well I don‘t know what that person was talking about must be a personal grudge, but it was one of the best chinese food I have eaten in campus town. YUMMY I like it.

It tasted like there was a party in my mouth and everyone vomitted. How the hell do they stay in business?

YUCK!!! That‘s about all that needs to be said about this place.

Costs twice as much as HyVee takeout for less food that tastes worse (and HyVee takeout is pretty abysmal). Sign me up!

"The Golden Wok has been a proud Iowa State tradition for nigh twenty years. Rapid delivery combined with world-class service and the tasty food make this a do-not-miss Chinese food experience!"

This is what the summary up top says. Now, I have to wonder what kind of special crack the person who wrote that review was on, because this is bar-none the worst Chinese food I have ever had in my life. During desperate moments when I felt like ordering something and couldn‘t have pizza with my friends (can‘t eat meat, and not much cheese) and I didn‘t feel like a burrito, I ordered from here and prayed that the food wasn‘t horrible.

The only thing I can generally stomach from here is the Hot and Sour Soup and sometimes the egg rolls, but the major disadvantage to ordering any entrees from here is that the cooks are unfamilar with two concepts - "Cooking" and "Flavor". Yes, the ingredients must be cooked BEFORE the dish is served, the vegetables should not be raw, and even when all this is done, the dishes require some form of flavoring unless the Golden Wok intends to cater to a completely anosmic crowd (no sense of smell and hence, no sense of taste). The lo mein tastes horrid, the fried rice is bland, and the rice itself I swear is minute rice. There is a good reason this place has 1 bloody star - it stinks on ice. If ever there is another Chinese place in town that delivers and can at least be rated as "mediocre", then this place will die.

I recently heard they invited some new chef to bring the place up a few notches. I have no idea about what has happened to this place recently, but after having eaten their food four times (the last time in November) I have sworn this hole off. If they ever want to improve their reputation, they‘re going to have to work like the devil.

i like it

If Golden Wok serves "so-called" Chinese food, Taco Bell must be the personal caterer to the high and mighty of the world.

Their food sucks. stay away from them. Really. There are other chinese joints in the area which may not offer delivery service but taste a helluva lot better.

I think that the food is pretty good,but the best part is reading the reviews. They are very funny.

Crap on them.

Especially like that part about the crap racoons.

The other day I was having a hankering for Golden Wok, so I rifled through my kitchen garbage can and pulled out some old fruit peelings and coffee grounds. Although it wasn‘t quite as bad as Goiden Wok‘s food, I did save five bucks and got about the same nutritional value.

Took 2 hours to get my food. The food was not even warm when it got here. Stay away.

VEry RUDE STAFF!! nasty food, slow slow service, and again very very rude staff!!

all i can say is.... stay away!!! the reviews speak for themselves.

Absolutely disgusting food, and the employees care nothing about the customer.

Don‘t believe the prices on the menu! Your order will cost alot more! And even though it says they offer a side of fried rice...they won‘t let you order it! The make you order the DINNER of fried rice!!!! Who in the he## needs a whole dinner of fried rice?!?!

Nasty Nasty Nasty food!!!!

Really bad. Of course it‘s Ames‘ finest chinese delivery, because that‘s the only chinese place that freakin‘ delivers!
Do not eat there! They don‘t even cook their meat!!!!

Disgusting. Ungodly bland.

I ordered crap rangoons once and they tasted like CRAB RACOONS. The food is horrible. If you call them for delivery, they make you wait on the phone for 10 minutes and sometimes they don‘t even pick their phone up. They are expensive and their food smells like a skunk.

This place is ridiculous, delivery took 2 freakin hours!!! And after 2 hours they turn up without half of my order! And thats no chinese food, it tasted like crap.

It was alright, but the egg roll tasted like crap and the sesame chicken was just okay...I‘ll stick to Homestyle Chinese from now on

This place is horribly over-priced. I honestly should have called and asked for my money back. The food is bland, bland, bland. I got Crab Rangoon- too small and Kung Pao chicken that was not spicy at all. Traditionally it‘s supposed to burn your damn tongue off. I‘d probably only eat this again if I was drunk and found an open box of this slop on the sidewalk. Save your money.

Order Es Tas for delivery if you don‘t want pizza

The absolute worst pork lo mein I‘ve tasted in my life!!

this place is hawt