China Village — Restaurant in Gray

I'll preface this by saying I've been going since high school and have always enjoyed the food everytime and any other time I've gone in the past I wouldn't consider anything other than 4 stars. It has been a while since I've been there and I guess times have changed. Food was as I've come to expect, no complaints. Service was ok. We were informed that dinner combos and most plated meals or combinations including children's plates were not available. Obviously the majority of all the food in the combinations were being cooked for order ala cart. ( I usually get a dinner combo with rice/ribs/fingers/teriyaki) I was still able to order all this but not as the combination. I know times are tough everywhere with staffing, rising food/labor and business costs and not to mention inflation. I get it we have to pay more now a days and there's no way around that. I am having trouble understanding the practice of not offering the majority of your menu options or substitutions but yet the food is available and made. In my mind it seems like an easy eay to increase a party of 5's bill from around $100-120 to $170 before the tip. I hope it's not a common trend in the future unless that really is what they have to do to stay afloat these days. Sad to experience as I've stated I've always loved eating there...

What a perfectly wonderful WASTE of $55 in Chinese takeout!!

Let me first say that our food was piping hot when we got home, so it’s not like it was sitting for a long time. That said, the first thing we noticed was that the fried dumplings were soggy! So soggy. Yuck. They looked and tasted like they were fried in a fryalator, not pan fried like the good stuff. And they had little to no flavor. As for the crab rangoons, almost no crab! They’re called CRAB rangoons. Not cream cheese pockets. Also, maybe add some onion or something for a little flavor other than straight up cream cheese. Grrrr. The house fried rice looked very promising when we opened the container. Lots of veggies and shrimp and pork and..... some other mystery meat. We thought “okay maybe this will make up for the other stuff.” We both took a bite and my hubby and I looked at each other with total disappointment. It had a really really weird flavor! I make better fried rice at home! My hubby had boneless ribs and said they also had no flavor - he was dipping them in the duck sauce just to get something other than dried flavorless pork.

First time ever that we didn’t save the leftovers. Booooo. Never...

I never write reviews, but if I can save one person from wasting 90.00 on horrible food I will. We were visiting from out of town and thought Chinese would be a safe meal after hours on the road. We were wrong! We ordered eggs rolls, sweet and sour chicken, fried rice, beef and broccoli and won ton soup. The won ton soup was unrecognizable. It had all kinds of vegetables in it and the won tons were difficult to find and not good. The soup itself was flavorless. The sweet and sour chicken was at best fair and didn't come with any sweet and sour sauce. The beef and broccoli had ZERO taste. I have never had this dish with no taste to it. To say it was bad is being nice. The fried rice was edible at best. Despite asking for soy sauce,we got none in the bag and the duck sauce (which I read was home made) was bland Overall the portion size was good, but alot of terrible food is not necessarily a strong point. The thing is the food doesnt taste bad....it doesn't taste like anything. Hate to give a bad review as its someone's business, but paying 90.00 for this quality of food...