Gold Penny Restaurant - Vancouver

For westernized Chinese food, this restaurant is pretty solid in its offerings for the price and portion sizes. Came here on two separate visits recently,

THIS IS THE WORST PLACE EVER!!!! DONT EVER GO HERE!!!!!! I ordered food delivery and they forgot to deliver my soup and wonton.

So this isnt a one star review because they've already offered compensation on the order, and one of the dishes was right.

Gold Penny is a very basic 'tables & chairs' Chinese food restaurant, not fancy at all, but the food is good, reliable and affordable. Extensive menu gives you lots of choices. My friend and I shared a generous plate of chicken chow mein with a mix of vegetables and a generous plate of salt and spicy prawns in the shell. Shells are edible and delicious with the coating. It was very filling for both of us for only $25.

I had very limited food.... just ordered the appetizer A platter to share with my friend as he wanted deep fried prawns.. everything was deep fried , greasy and awful. My friend swears the other classic dishes are good as he has been going there for years... but I do not eat big platters of Chinese food for lunch so I was not interested in trying them. I did have the dim sum steamed dumplings which were just ok. To be fair maybe it's an ok place? but it's just a little no character hole in the wall NOT my style at all I good see it was mostly Asian people/ regulars eating there. The waitress was pretty nice.. prices ok... but I would not recommend this place unless you are desperate.