Get Out! Review: Golden Dragon

The interior of Ponderay’s Golden Dragon was nothing to call HGTV about, what with the obligatory assortment of red paper lanterns, lurid Great Wall landscapes, and an ominous glass case full of Chinese trifles and whatnots. But overall it was a perfectly tidy and agreeable atmosphere, with the reassuring Mandarin (?) chatter of the two waitresses and cook (sisters and dad?) and some tinkly Asian elevator music providing an appetizingly authentic audio environment. So was the food as good on the taste buds as it is on the eyeballs in the above photo? Generally speaking, yes it was. Golden Dragon is, in many ways,  a few notches above pretty much any Chinese food on offer anywhere in the Coeur d’Alene-Post Falls-Hayden triangle, but I still can’t say it lives up to the best of the best Asian-American meals I’ve sat down to (locally, Spokane Valley’s Peking Palace still holds that personal award)/ OrangeTV , Get Out! North Idaho. More here.