May Gold Village - Langford, British Columbia

Don’t go there. - it seems it is a run down place that once upon a time was a good restaurant but not anymore. Very grease, chow maine without vegetables and everything is fried and just nasty. I will not come back - cleanness is also debatable. I wanted to ... walk out right after they brought me my dish - so sad Read more

Food is actually very very good, I would recommend if you are debating it. The price isn’t too bad as well, while the WONTON goes extremely hard

Ordered house mix fried rice - with beef chicken pork and egg. N pork Szechuan with black bean sauce - they had beef on the list and called the chef and asked if he could replace it with pork n they did. Which was nice. It was good.

This resto is earning the rare 1 star. While I did pay for what was presented on the plate, I shouldn't have. I have had this place on my list of places to visit for the past 4 years since moving to the island. Today was the day and I was under the ... impression from their website and some of the photos in the reviews that this would be a buffet experience. IT IS NOT. The buffet is still right there when you walked in, but now it doubles as a plate storage unit. Yellow flag one. Once seated by myself at a 4 top, I was given a menu. They have some pre-arranged lunch options for $15. Reasonable and good generic selections. No different than you would expect from a comparable food court set of selections. Food came out pretty quick. When the plate was placed on the table next to me, not in front of me. Weird. I started with a portion of the "chow mein". Noodles were completely bland. No flavour. As I started working towards a few more bites, I noted that the sprout heads had turned completely gray and the tips of their stems too were turning gray. They looked spoiled to me! Next, I tried the "ginger beef". What a weird experience. First, these were flat rectangular slices of beef, not the traditional stir fry long shape. The top few bits had no sauce, and the bottom ones were bathing in sauce. I tried the first one. Bang! Massive vinegar taste. I stirred them up and tried 4 or 5 more pieces. But the vinegar was overpowering. Next I moved on to the deep fried spring roll. I could tell by the neat, uniform binding of the rolls they were made outside and brought in. Hope. I broke it in half. Good snap. But. The carrot that dangled out from one piece seemed odd. I pulled it out with my finger. But it was mush. The whole thing was mush inside. I regretfully took a small bite of the one piece. Mush. And, I could also taste that distinctive "been in a dirty freezer too long" taste. Done with that. I broke one of the shrimps in half. It looked alright, so I tried a bite of the shrimp by itself. Success. Something that wasn't gross. I tried a second, this time dipping it in the sweet and sour sauce in the small dish. Not too bad. I was attentive to look for any "dirty oil" taste in the fry batter, but it tasted surprisingly clean. I finished the shrimp. I poked at a few other things and stirred a few things over just in case. Bad move. I ended up finding several bits of that black curled up chunks. Because why use a clean grill when a dirty one is just as good. Ugh. What a depressing thing. I tapped out and went to the till to pay. I asked the girl who took my payment if she was an owner. She said no, so I didn't want to berate her over things not in her control. I asked if I could talk to an owner or manager. She got immediately defensive and asked why. I told her the food was not good at all. She wanted to know more, so I said that the spring roll was clearly frozen in the freezer for way too long. She started making excuses about how they don't store anything for more than a couple days because they get deliveries every two or three days. I told her that is a lie. At that point, I left. A couple were looking over a menu when I was leaving. I told them to go anywhere else. And now, I am telling you. Read more

We keep on passing this restaurant many times during the many trips to sites and lunches etc. So we had to try it. The sign on the building said buffet restaurant, but it wasn't. Maybe it's because of the pandemic they cut this out. So, we asked about the buffet with ... we don't do it. Same with the next and next and so on people coming in. We almost walked out but lucky we decided to stay. We picked a number of items that looked good to us, which included hot and sour soup. We didn't realize that they served all items at once. We were disappointed at this. When we said something about this, they said that people like being served all at once. We suggestion is order your soup. Then order what you want next. This way you can eat the way you want. Or all at once, if that's the way you like it. We ended up taking the soup home with us for a later time. Plus some of the leftovers. Maybe tomorrow's lunch? Enjoy this wonderful tasting hot fresh food, too! Read more