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668 N. 44th St. Phoenix, AZ 85008

602-286-9888

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Phoenix New Times
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BEST DIM SUM
Award Winner 2006

Cuisine(s): Chinese

Hours: Daily 11am-10pm

Price: $$, $$$

Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa, American Express, cash
Attire: casual

Features: Smoking, Takeout, Private Party, Catering, Banquet Facilities, Wheelchair Accessible

Serving: Dinner, Lunch

Entertainment: Live Entertainment
Alcohol: Full bar

Reservations: Not Accepted

Parking: Lot Available

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Golden Buddha offers one of the more impressive Cantonese/Mandarin menus in town, but we love it best for its dim sum, the Chinese brunch served with tea that features endless small plates of everything from shrimp dumplings and barbecued pork buns to deep-fried sesame balls and fried chicken feet. Everything is super-fresh and appetizing, and the service from the roving dim sum carts filled with goodies is especially friendly and helpful. Go and go often, but don't be surprised if you end up looking like the fat "Golden Buddha" (actually the revered mendicant Bu-Dai) posted at the entrance.

2006 | BEST DIM SUM

Pain, suffering, and punishment. That's the theology most of the world's major religions sell. Well, later for that cheese! We've decided to worship that corpulent, jolly "buddha" with a small "b" known as Jin Foo, Bu Dai, or Hotei. This smiling, big-eared mendicant with a belly like Homer Simpson's greets visitors to the Chinese Cultural Center's Golden Buddha restaurant, where we like to pay homage by snarfing loads of dim sum, the best in the Valley by far. As you sit, servers race around... More »
2005 | BEST DIM SUM

Why is the Buddha's belly so fat and his smile so wide Too many Twinkies and six-packs of Old Milwaukee Wrong again, pork bun breath! Actually, the "golden Buddha" statue in the lobby of the Chinese Cultural Center's Golden Buddha restaurant is Bu-Dai (Hotei in Japanese), the corpulent, smiling mendicant revered for his good humor and generosity. Chances are the Phoenix version has been packing on the pounds by eating dim sum to his heart's delight at his namesake, the new eatery at CCC,... More »

Dim Sum Days

By Stephen Lemons | Thu, August 18, 2005

The only deity I've ever had a personal affinity for is that corpulent, jolly "buddha" with a small "b" known as Jin Foo, Bu Dai, or Hotei, depending on whom you ask. Personally, Gautama Buddha, he of the Bodhi tree fame, always struck me as a bit... More »

Main Menu

Appetizer

$5.50

Pot-Stickers
seasoned ground pork sirloin and chopped vegetables wrapped in a thin layer of dough and deep fried

$5.50

Steamed Dumplings
seasoned ground pork sirloin and chopped vegetables wrapped in a thin layer of dough and steamed

$2.75

Fried Wonton

$2.75

Egg Roll
delicately shredded pork and chinese vegetables deep fried

$2.75

A Vegetables Roll

Soup

$4.50

Sizzling Rice Soup

$2.25

Hot and Sour Soup

$2.25

Egg Drop Soup

$2.25

Wonton Soup

$4.50

A Vegetables Soup

Seafood

$11.95

Mu Shu Shrimp
fancy flavored egg with shrimp and skin mushrooms, served with thin chinese pancake

$12.95

Happy Family
a symbol for family togetherness, mixed with meat poultry and seafood as well as vegetables sauteed

$12.95

Scallops with Szechuan Sauce
fresh scallops with chopped scallion garlic in hot sauce. shredded bamboo shoots and green peppers

$12.95

Scallops with Chinese Vegetables

$11.45

Sweet and Sour Shrimp
fried shrimp with sweet and sour sauce. mandarin style

Desserts

$5.95

Glazed Bananas
served two to four persons

$5.95

Glazed Apples
served two to four persons

$6.95

Glazed Sweet Potato

Vegetables

$7.95

Sauteed Balck Mushroom with Bamboo Shoots and Snow Peas

$7.95

Buddha Delight Mandarin Style

$7.95

Snow Peas with Black Mushrooms and Water Chestnuts

$9.95

Black Mushrooms with Bean Curd

$7.95

Broccoli with Oyster Sauce

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Golden Buddha Restaurant

668 N. 44th St. Phoenix, AZ 85008

602-286-9888

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2006 | BEST DIM SUM

2005 | BEST DIM SUM

Dim Sum Days

By Stephen Lemons | Thu, August 18, 2005

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