Taste of China — Restaurant in Belleville

Taste of China Chinese Restaurant (take out) - 573 Belleville Ave., Belleville, NJ Review

It is sad to say, that in this time of restaurants, especially local ones, having such a hard time due to the Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic, one would think a restaurant, Especially a small local Chinese restaurant like Taste of China at 573 Belleville Ave., Belleville, NJ , would do all they could to keep and at least make a customer happy, Especially a loyal and frequent one.

We ordered a few take out/to go meals in Oct. 2020 and 2 had scouring/brillo pad metal pieces mixed in the meals! When we brought this very upsetting, disturbing and disgusting concern to the owners/managers, after their many back and forth arguments with their cooks/coworkers in Chinese, they came back to us and acted oblivious. Not even an apology!  They very reluctantly offered to remake the meals but they Insisted on us returning the Contaminated meals to them (or what was left of them). As we have been regular patrons of this restaurant, we obliged.

To add insult to injury, a week later when we tried to order from them again, they rudely attempted to explain, in very poor broken English, that because we did not want metal scouring pad pieces in our food, they would not sell to us anymore and hung up on us!

As there are Much better, Cleaner, Friendlier and Appreciative local Chinese restaurants around Belleville, Bloomfield, Nutley and Montclair, NJ, we can No longer, in good conscience, recommend Taste of China at 573 Belleville Ave., ...

When I walked in, the workers were eating and watching tv in the front, at the help desk. I didn't have a problem.. work must have been slow that day. What I didn't like was that the woman continued to eat while taking my order. Okay... I asked for shrimp and broccoli with plain fried rice. Ten dollars they tried to charge me which didn't include a soda and I walked in around lunch time so I'm assuming they don't offer a lunch special. I asked the woman to cancel the order because I hadn't eaten there before and I wasn't sure the food would be...

Just got my food from them. Order was correct but the delivery guy had the nerve to say "delivery guys aren't supposed to come upstairs." Seriously?! What kind of delivery guys do these people have. If you're not supposed to come upstairs then how about you call me. 4 floors isn't a lot when there is an elevator. This dude had the audacity to say that after he got his tip from me. This will be the last time I order from them.

P.s. if your delivery guy is an older Chinese man, don't tip him. Tell him...