Great Wall Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Dumont

Very bad! The food was just very bad. The boneless spare ribs were these large chunks of meat that have a bad taste and are very difficult to chew. The sweet & sour chicken also had a bad taste. And the sesame chicken equally bad. The sweet sauce on both of the chickens had a bad taste. Either the 3 meats were leftovers reheated, or the meat company selling meats to this restaurant is giving them bad food. If that is the case, they need to find a new meat source provider. On top of that, the rice was dry and overcooked, possibly leftover from a day or 2 and reheated. I honestly havent tasted chinese white rice this bad before. Rice is suppossed to be fluffy and light, so simple. This was just really bad food in all types.

The hostess barely spoke to us and was rude in her tone of voice. She looked grumpy which is not good if you are in the food service industry. Prices were on the expensive side. No fortune cookies, despite eating inside and ordering a lot of food.

On the good side, they have lots of tables and the dining room is clean. Just no edible food here and from the attitude of the employees, they dont...

Read the reviews but gave this place a chance and was very disappointed. I ordered the "Happy Family", but it wasn't happy at all. Yes it was full of seafood, but most of the seafood was imitation crab and some other strange looking thing. The crab was definitely fake and the beef was mealy and seemed like it was frozen and refrozen then tenderized to the point of no return. The pork and chicken were a decent consistency, but also tasted weird. The shrimp was overcooked and at this point, I was afraid to eat it. Nothing tasted fresh, not even the vegetables. Lacked flavor and just tasted "off". I threw it all away. The Hot and Sour soup was sweet and very thick. Threw it away as well. My husband had the General Tso's Chicken and it was mushy. The fried rice had no flavor. We will never order from here again. Anyone that likes this food has no palate. Avoid food poisoning and eat somewhere else. Total waste of money. One good thing, the delivery person was great, so the one star is for him. NOTE: Notice the response from the restaurant only mentioned the imitation crab. Clueless....

Oct, 2019: I had to change my review from 1 star to 4 stars. I tried a bunch of other Chinese restaurants, and didn't like any of them, so I have returned to The Great Wall, and am loving it! I guess the episodes I had below were just flukes. I'm still cautious (thus the 4 versus 5 stars), but I can't eat Chinese anywhere else! I love the food here!

July, 2019: I used to love the food here, but I had two very scary occurrences. Last night, there was a piece of metal in my food, about 1 1/4" x 1/8". I thought it was a shrimp shell, but when I pulled it out of my mouth, it was thick, shiny metal, like from a heavy duty brillo pad. The other time, my food tasted like it had some kind of chemical cleaning fluid in it. I reported the chemical event to the restaurant, and they were nice about it, but when the metal event happened, I reported it to the health dept. Even though I like the food, I'm scared to eat there again. I dread trying to find another Chinese take-out...