The Great Wall Restaurant

Worst customer service I have ever experienced. They were so unprofessional. The food was horrible and the meat looked like it had been sitting out for a week. When we complained they wouldn’t let us speak to a manager. The waitress only came over once to give us our drinks. Would not recommend this restaurant to anyone I know ever.

We were out shopping with our kids and it was just time to eat something within close proximity. Boy, we should have gone somewhere else. Most of the food looked questionable at best but the crapola part of it was you pay before you get seated. As we were nearing the end of our meal, we started finding hairs in everyone’s food. We notified the waitress and she said «ew, that is disgusting, thank you for letting us know.» OK well, we were almost done. We decided to finish off with fruit. Big mistake. My kids piled on fruit and the well known rubbery jell-​o. When they got back to the table we found bugs in the jello and fruit. We again let the waitress know showing her and she freaked out. She said she would do something for us. We waited, and waited. No one came. We got up to leave and the waitress said sorry and thanks for coming in. I asked if we could speak to the manager to see about some kind of compensation. The gal told me the manager wasn’t there and had a broken phone so they couldn’t do anything for us. We’ll we will never go back I will tell anyone I can how horribly our experience was. NEVER EAT HERE!!!

I usually frequent the other establishment on a regular basis, and since we were in the area we decided to try this place. My impression was they were short of at least 1 to 2 staff and table like they were doing. Their best to take care of customers and clear tables at the same time.
Our interaction with the waitress was a bit awkward and not quite the interaction I was expecting. Friendly and courteous on the whole, but asking of the drinks and the check seemed awkward.
Food was decent and hot, but that’s much desired.
I had a pretty good decent experience. not bad but not excellent.

Sorry to say this is the worst Chinese buffet I’ve ever been to. They didn’t even do the stir fry right… I mean come on all you have to do is fry the meat and veggies and put some sauce right? Not one item was good except the store bought pumpkin pie that I had for dessert. I won’t be back ever!

My mother in law was desperate for a Chinese restaurant that could deliver lunch to our office. She called a few places and finally found Great Wall. I cringed a little when I looked at the lunch menu option… It seemed rather cheap and there weren’t many options.
While placing the order of 5 lunch specials plus eggs rolls my MIL had to repeat herself several times and the woman taking her order was very rude! It took a good hour before our food finally arrived and they didn’t even get it right. We didn’t receive one of the sweet and sour pork with fried rice that we ordered but instead we got some kind of shrimp fish. All of the chicken was dark meat and the «fried rice» was like steamed rice with a little egg and green onion. Nobody at the table had much good to say about their order.
I was NOT surprised when I looked them up on Unilocal and saw other reviews while I picked over my mandarin chicken. I am giving them 2 stars because the food did arrive HOT and I did not get food poisoning. We will not be ordering Chinese take out from here again!

We’ve had Meridian great wall of China delivery before and love it! This time I called it in for a to go order. Apparently they have the same number for both restaurants on their main website, so it took me to The restaurant that is not close to me. I put in my order, they told me 30 minute wait and it would be ready. I showed up at the one close to me and of course they didn’t have my order because I was at the wrong one. They were very polite and called the other restaurant to cancel my order but the other restaurant said that they did not even have an order under my name! I’m so glad the Meridian Great Wall of China took care of me and they rushed my to go order! Great customer service!

I have driven by this place for years. After our favorite Chinese buffet that was located on Fairview Avenue closed, we had to look for a new place. This is about as good as it gets in Meridian. The place was very clean, very accommodating and had a HUGE spread for their buffet. There was sushi, much to my wife’s delight. There was one part of the buffet dedicated to a Mongolian style grill. A fresh salad bar. And of course two steam tables full of yummy Chinese style food. The prices were moderate, the server was on top of everything, including refilling our drinks and clearing plates. I would recommend this place, and we will definitely be going back soon.

This place blows dead dogs. And probably cooks and serves them. Buffett is terrible, the staff is nice but not very efficient, the food is crap. Was recomnended by a friend because of the low prices, 10 $ a head. I want my friggen money back! And a new friend! Just because something is cheap does not make it good to eat. Screw this place, go to Quick Wok and enjoy a decent meal for a comparable price. Fags.

First of all their add says they have a sushi bar. This is an out and right lie. Serving sushi and having it in the buffet is not that same thing. SECOND they have gotten lazy and no longer provide the same quality the did. They actually serve their customers poop. I mean this literally. They no longer clean their shrimp. If you see a shrimp with a black line down the back it has not been cleaned. That black line is its poop shoot and the black is poop. And they are knowingly feeding it to you. So next time you go to Great Wall know you will be eating shrimp poop.

It’s a buffet with Mongolian stir fry. I like this place, so many bad reviews I don’t see why? What were you expecting from a all you can eat buffet? Food is good and service is really good for a buffet.

This review is solely based on the delivery service. I have ordered food to be delivered on several occasions and I have always found it to be hot, fresh, and delicious. They are so flexible with custom orders and the drivers have all been very courteous.

IF YOU WANT WHITE MEAT CHICKEN HERE, YOU CAN ONLY CHOOSE FROM 2 DISHES.
Before I decided to write my review, I looked through the others. There is a very mixed bag of reviews. It seems that either people loved this place or hated it. it is very very hard for me to imagine anyone liking it here. Please read on to find out why.
I have been here once before back when it 1^st opened. I remember it well. My wife and I came in and sat down. Our experience with Chinese places has taught us to always ask if they serve white meat chicken.
White meat is not traditional in China. Dark meat is cheaper, and can be more flavorful than white meat unless a cook knows what they are doing.
After I wrote my review, the owner, or manager, emailed me and promised that they did indeed have white meat chicken. I trusted him and took down my review.
I have meant to return, but just could not bring myself to do it. The outside looks bad. I dont recall what was here before, but it looks like an A & W, or something else like this.
They have attempted to turn it into Chinese, but wanted to keep an American feel to it as well. This way, they can also appeal to Americans.
They failed on both counts.
Today, I decided to return to give them one last chance to redeem themselves. We asked the server if they had white meat chicken. She said yes, but then after I ordered, this changed.
She said that there was only 2 dishes that came with white meat chicken. I wanted the Generals, but this was not one of them. I told her that the manager promised they had white meat chicken. She went to ask and came back and said no.
I read through the menu and found an item that said right in the menu that it was chicken breast. It was not one of the 2 that she said was white meat chicken.
I thought to myself, doesn’t Chicken Breast = white meat chicken?
I pointed it out to the waitress. She seemed surprised. I dont think she knew her menu at all. In fact, after eating here, my guess is that none of these people know the 1^st thing about Chinese cooking.
Whoever started this place probably just thought that starting a restaurant sounded like a good easy way to make a buck. I can just see Robert Irvine shaking his heard is disbelief at The Great Wall.
This place seems to survive by offering a buffet. So Im guessing they dont get a lot of people that actually order off the menu.
When my order came out, it was the oddest looking Chinese dish I have ever seen. What I got was about 20 small pieces of chicken that had tales on them. They looked like Hush Puppies or a really odd version of popcorn chicken.
The chicken had a tempura batter, which had been dropped in the fryer wet. This is why they seemed to have tales. The chicken and batter had no flavor.
The pile of Chicken was served with a large bowl of some sort of sauce with cut jalapenos floating in them. Something else I have never seen before. Uh, excuse me Mr owner, arent jalapenos Mexican?
So we have a Chinese/​American/​Mexican restaurant. Thats an interesting mix indeed.
The sauce… well, I cant describe the flavor because it had very little of it. it was temperature hot. In fact it was very hot (Temperature) like all the other food. But the heat was the only positive thing I can say about any of it.
The thing that really floored me was this pile of White meat chicken could be combined with any sauce and veggies to make up any dish.
Do you want to hear the reason the waitress gave me that none of the other chicken dishes come as White Meat? Wait for it…
She said its because all the rest of the Chicken dishes are pre-​made with dark meat. I was afraid to ask any more questions, but I can only imagine all these items on the menu in plastic bags because they have been made way ahead of time.
When you order them, they pour the ingredients from the bag, warm them up in the microwave, or on the flattop and serve them.
I ordered hot tea. It had very little flavor to it. My 11 year old, that loves hot tea, commented that it tasted like hot water. My sentiments exactly! It tested the same at the end of the meal, so it had plenty of time to steep.
I kept looking at the inside of my chicken, The light was odd, so it was hard to say for sure, but Im pretty sure that the Chicken was undercooked. Not raw, but still pink.
One last thing I just have to point out. My wife had Egg Fu Young. When it came out, I thought I had been transported to a breakfast place. The Egg Fu Young here looks like pancakes. The flavor was ok.
Due to all the bad things here, I will just give this place an overall rating. On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give it a –3.
I would be very surprised in they are in business in another 6 months.
Dont waste your time here. Of all restaurants I have reviewed, this is one of the worst.
Go to PF Changs, Ling and Lois down the street, or even Panda Express.

Very great friendly service. Good employees, good food, good times. Every time I eat at The Great Wall, I have a good time. I tip well every single time and I enjoy the friendly service. The entry is a bit confusing, but otherwise it’s great!

We have been eating here for close to 4 years. We are always seated quickly and given our drinks. The containers of food are usually full. The staff is polite. We only eat certain things, and those are things that we like and they taste wonderful. This is one of our favorite places to go for date night.
My only complaint surrounds one time that we went and we did not leave a tip. The waitress asked us outright if they had done anything wrong. I felt very awkward explaining that the service had been great and that we rarely leave tips. I felt that she was rude I guess…

Worst Chinese I’ve had in many years, unfortunately. The meat was an impossible combination of both too greasy and too dry and desiccated. Made me sick to my stomach upon leaving and left me disquieted the rest of the night. I had some general Tso’s chicken and some crab rangoons from the buffet.

I just ate at Great Wall, first time as we are newer residents to Boise. Food was fresh, and well prepared.
Chicken wings, yes the chicken wings are really good. Not as massive on the selections of other area Chinese fusion type buffets, but each item was good.

We ordered this for delivery and the guy brought the wrong order. After we chased him down and swapped for the right box it went downhill from there. They sent several wrong items and one giant bucket of sauce for both the sweet and sour chicken and the mandarin chicken. The portions were large but we didn’t even bother to save the leftovers. They were very helpful when we called to complain and refunded half the purchase to our card. Even at 50% off I don’t think it was worth it.

Been here once and that was it. Tried it since it was the new place. The wife and I still surprised that they are still around and the parking lot is full. Can’t see why. There’s nothing special and it’s racked with disorganization throughout. Skip it. Cook your own.

Lunched with Dad here again today. We ate here once before and couldn’t figure out why there were so many cars in the parking lot. A coupon got us to try it again.
We found that:
— the fried shrimp were overly greasy
— the egg foo young patties were extremely thin and flavorless
— the peel & eat shrimp were small and overcooked
When we have all-​you-​can-​eat Chinese on the mind, we’d much rather eat at City Buffet or China Grand.

Where are the Chinese in Eagle? One might think with the amount of cars in the parking lot that this place would be good. If you want tater tots they have them. If you want Chinese keep looking.
Is this place related to place on Overland. At least in rating!