Golden Temple in Brookline

 |> >I had always thought of Golden Temple in Washington Sq (Brookline)

 We tried to go there last night, for a Jewish Christmas dinner, but the place
 was packed. Found the Indian Cafe, a block up, to be excellent.

 Someone wrote:
 >  I had always thought of Golden Temple in Washington Sq (Brookline)
 >  as a typical, though pricy, suburban Chinese restaurant -- especially
 >  since a large part of the business seemed to be couples drinking
 >  large 2-person drinks in colors that looked downright dangerous.
 >  But my wife and I stopped in recently for some late night food,
 >  and found it unexpectedly excellent.

 It's been about ten years since I ate there, but I remember
 it as being quite a bit better than typical.  For example,
 their fried rice was quite good.  (Maybe you had to ask them
 to leave out the soy sauce.)  Not as good as Moon Villa's,
 which wasn't as good as my mother's or mine, but very good
 by restaurant standards.

 >  As for price -- well, the 2 soups, Shumai, rice, and the Orange
 >  Beef set us back $31 w tax & tip, so the place is a bit on the
 >  expensive side for Chinese, but clearly worth every penny.

 You paid $31 for two "excellent" dinners served in a "really
 wonderful" setting in an expensive city, and you think it was
 "a bit on the expensive side" because the food was Chinese-
 American?

 Barry Shein ([email removed]) adds:
 >  Sometimes one gets a hankering for food with green maraschinos
 >  and those little paper umbrellas and there's practically nowhere
 >  left in this vicinity to satisfy that craving.
 >
 >  There was a place about 150 feet from our office in Coolidge
 >  Corner, The Golden Dragon or something like that, which had that
 >  nice feel, starched white tablecloths, cokes with maraschino
 >  cherries, tea cups you could barely lift, moo goo gai pan and
 >  chow mein and pepper steak.

 Dragon Gate.  They had a fried noodle dish (Chicken Bali Hai)
 that was half-decent.  I was surprised they hung on as long
 as they did, and sad to see them go.  At least they outlived
 Bildner's :-)

 Felix
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