Great Wall Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Madison

The quality of the food is not consistent -- some nights moderately tasty, some nights absolutely foul. It's a 50/50 type of deal.

It's fairly typical "Chinese" fare, and when the better cooks are working, the food is acceptable. It seems as though the food quality suffers on their busier nights... possibly because untrained people are used to prepare the food when they're struggling to keep up with orders.

It's the only local place in the Madison/North Madison area for Chinese food, so if that's what you're looking for, this is it. I recommend staying away from dishes containing shrimp, because it is usually way overcooked. The pork and chicken dishes are usually a safer bet. Beef tends to be stringy and chewy here. If you want your food to be spicy, stress it with the strongest language possible, or else you will get your dish...

Update It had been several years since I had been here, so I figured I would give it another try. What a mistake. The only reason this place must still be in business with so many other local and delicious Chinese restaurants is the mere fact that it's convenient to north Madison. Nasty, miserable owners, sub par food that is way over priced for what you get. Do yourself a favor and drive the extra 15 minutes for good Chinese food.

Typical Chinese takeout. Don't expect anything spectacular here. General tso chicken was meh. Their pork fried rice was good and their boneless spare ribs were very decent. This is a cash only business and they dont offer an atm inside as most of the other cash only businesses do, so come prepared...

Worst of the worst Chinese food ever. 1st the people are very rude, I got asked "What you want??" And then she threw a pen at me to sign my c.c. slip. Get home and my beef lomein was BURNT all to hell and back. What a was of time and $. I drive by the Rt 81 Chinese food because they always have rotten meat, smells rancid. Now here they burn it. The cooks were to busy on their phones. Oh well guess I try and drive even further for...