The Golden Dragon is a fine dining restaurant with a intimate full service bar and lounge, a  dining room with booths and tables and a private room for small parties as well.  This is a restaurant with a very large menu with choices for al a carte selections as well as complete dinners.  For such quality and service prices are surprisingly modest.  There is also an outstanding wine list.
 The Golden Dragon offers classic Chinese dining with a serene atmosphere and decor, outstanding cuisine and attentive attention from a well trained staff, many with years of experience at the restaurant. 
Certainly the Southern California Restaurant Writers believe so since the restaurant has  received the Gold Award for Excellence an unprecedented 29  years in a row and was one year named Restaurateur of the Year.
 It has been family owned and operated by the Wang family since the day it opened in 1975.   Yuau-Der Wang and his wife, Chi-Yun are still active in the business they  founded so many years ago. Now, however, they  have their son, John, as restaurant manager overseeing day to day operations.   But most evenings you can still count on Mother Chi-Yun  to be on hand to greet customers.
  Our dinner, it could be called a banquet, opened with special egg rolls with mushroom, shrimp, chicken and vegetable and the shrimp toast.  Next came the hot and sour soup with shrimp and wontons.  Entrees which arrived family style included Lucky shrimp with a garlic white sauce, string bean beef, Walnut chicken with glazed walnuts and honey sweet sauce, a specially prepared roasted eggplant and the house fried rice with shrimp, pork, mushroom and shredded vegetables.  Besides traditional Chinese sweets  the restaurant also now features some western desserts .
 Golden Dragon is located at 2023 Harbor Blvd., in Costa Mesa with ample off street free parking.   The restaurant is open for lunch and dinner seven days a week, lunch starting at 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.  Dinner from 4:30 to 9:30  p.m.  On weekends the restaurant is open all day from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.  For reservations call 949 542-7162.