Golden Time Restaurant is an Asian and Chinese restaurant at 649 Main Street in Palmerston North Central, with takeaway and online ordering through its own website. The menu runs from dumplings, spring rolls and hot and sour noodles to hot pots, whole fish and wok dishes. The dumplings come pan-fried or boiled, with pork and cabbage or pork and chive fillings, and in batches of 10 or 20.
The fish dishes include a hot pot of whole blue cod or basa fillet in a spicy soup, whole blue cod with pickled chilli and hand-pulled noodles, and a whole fish in sweet and sour sauce. Other dishes include duck blood with beef omasum and squid, scallops in black bean sauce, king prawns with vegetables, braised beef brisket with bean curd, and a shredded pork in garlic sauce. Vegetable dishes and baked corn with salted egg yolk are also on the menu. The menu marks gluten-free, vegetarian, sugar-free and dairy-free dishes. Our pick in Palmerston North Central for a hot pot or whole fish.