Golden Rice Bowl Chinese

Golden Rice Bowl Chinese operates out of Reef Plaza at 3276 North State Road 7 in Lauderdale Lakes, a short distance from Fortune restaurant and Carl’s Seafood along the same corridor. According to its Yellow Pages listing, the restaurant has been in business for thirty-two years, which would put its opening in roughly 1994, making it one of the longer-tenured Chinese restaurants on this stretch of State Road 7, a corridor that carries a notable concentration of small, independently owned Chinese family restaurants alongside the city’s Caribbean kitchens.

The restaurant’s directory listing describes a menu built on authentic Chinese cooking with an emphasis on fresh ingredients, and quotes from its own profile page state that “the food is never greasy or oily and always has such flavor,” with the listing also noting customer feedback describing “good quality for the price.” Those specific phrases come directly from the business’s own Yellow Pages profile rather than from an independently sourced customer review, so they should be read as the restaurant’s self-description rather than third-party commentary, though the sentiment is consistent with the kind of family-style Chinese-American cooking, built around wok-fried dishes, combination plates and rice bowls, that dominates this category of restaurant across South Florida.

Golden Rice Bowl offers both dine-in and takeout service and accepts the standard range of major credit cards, according to its listing. Its hours run from 11 in the morning to 10 at night Monday through Friday, with a slightly later 11:30am opening on Saturdays, and no Sunday hours are listed, which is common among the smaller family-run Chinese restaurants along this part of State Road 7.

A search of Florida’s Division of Corporations records under the Golden Rice Bowl name found two entities, both listed as inactive: an older corporation with a decades-old document number and a more recent filing from 2018. Neither is currently listed as an active Florida corporation, which, as with several other small restaurants in this collection, more commonly reflects a lapsed state filing than an actual closure, particularly given that the restaurant continues to appear as an open, operating business in the directory listing used for this profile. Anyone with specific concerns about the business’s current legal status is best served by calling the restaurant directly or checking Sunbiz for the most current filing information before visiting.

Chinese family restaurants like Golden Rice Bowl have long been part of the retail fabric along North State Road 7, occupying strip plaza storefronts alongside the seafood counters, Caribbean takeout spots and bakeries that make up most of Lauderdale Lakes’ independent food scene, and a restaurant with three decades of history in one plaza represents a meaningful piece of that continuity.