To the best of our knowledge, this midtown restaurant is the only place in Nashville serving authentic Chinese food—and only then on weekends from 11 a.m-2:30 p.m. Several years ago, owners Annie and Yun Feng Yeh started adding authentic fare to their Saturday-Sunday buffet to accommodate fellow Taiwanese and Chinese immigrants yearning for a taste of home. And so, in addition to a usual Chinese menu designed to please less adventurous American palates, about half of the steam-table offerings hold goodies one might request from a dim sum cart or order from a Chinatown restaurant. As far as we know, Golden Coast is the only restaurant in town to serve congee, a thick gruel of rice and water that serves as a base for other ingredients such as fish, eggs, chicken and sometimes peanuts. Though the congee pot is refilled repeatedly, it is almost always gone for good long before the rest of the buffet shuts down. Other dishes worth sampling from the buffet include the steamed shrimp dumplings, the terrific seaweed with bacon and edamame, the steamed fish with ginger and soy sauce, the pork feet in an intense brown sauce, and the hacked chicken (boiled with ginger and onion, cut in thick slices and served cold).
Several years ago, owners Annie and Yun Feng Yeh started adding authentic fare to their Saturday-Sunday buffet to accommodate fellow Taiwanese and Chinese immigrants yearning for a taste of home. And so, in addition to a usual Chinese menu designed to please less adventurous American palates, about half of the steam-table offerings hold goodies one might request from a dim sum cart or order from a Chinatown restaurant. Though the congee pot is refilled repeatedly, it is almost always gone for good long before the rest of the buffet shuts down. Other dishes worth sampling from the buffet include the steamed shrimp dumplings, the terrific seaweed with bacon and edamame, the steamed fish with ginger and soy sauce, the pork feet in an intense brown sauce, and the hacked chicken (boiled with ginger and onion, cut in thick slices and served cold).
Features: Lunch, Dinner, Free Parking, Parking Lot Available, Reservations Accepted
Price: $$
Payment Type: All Major Credit Cards, cash
Parking: Free, Lot Available
Reservations: Accepted
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