China Gate Restaurant Polson MT

Sabra Hoffman

The only redeeming part of this experience was a kind waitress and host. The meals came out in about 3 minutes, and the vegetables on both meals were raw (giant pile of celery) or from a can (warm but not sautéed). The chicken in both seemed “off” — funny taste/appearance, and both dishes were flavorless. Mine was in a strange white gooey sauce. We only ate a couple bites before politely requesting to speak to a manager. The manager came to our table and did not listen to our calmly stated concerns; she immediately began pointing and raising her voice to tell us that they only use fresh vegetables, no canned (obviously this was not true). She the proceeded to loudly insist that we should not have ordered the two meals, that we should have only ordered one if it is too much for us. She refused to so much as discount the meals. We did not eat or take our meals, paid for our ticket, and left with me in tears. Especially with my husband sick to his stomach within a few minutes and only a couple bites of chicken, I am thankful we ate no more. It was the single worst restaurant experience I have ever had, which is sad because the other staff was so kind. Unfortunately I will not be returning or recommending this restaurant to anyone. UPDATE: My husband got food poisoning — still sick three days later. It was definitely the chicken that made him ill. We should have just walked out but felt morally uncomfortable about that option. At this point I highly regret paying for such a pricey, atrocious meal.

Tyler Williams

The food was terrible, bland, and awful. Vegetables were hardly cooked and obviously looked like they were not fresh. I asked to speak to the owner to see if we could just not eat our food and possibly have it discounted and she was extremely rude to myself and my wife and started ranting about how we shouldn’t have ordered what we did and everything was fresh. I didn’t want to argue so I paid and left. Would never recommend this place. I will say the service staff was very nice however.

Echo Cortana

Was fast, it was $15 for each box of rice..yeah $30 for two lil boxes of rice and meat. So: the BBQ pork in my "china gate fried rice" tasted like it was cold before or like It was reheated a couple times in a microwave or something you know what I mean? Oh, also I got the shrimp's on the side bc my Mom is allergic and so I ate some of them out of one of 'the on the side' containers - sadly the morning after I did I was vomiting bile from both ends all day and night. Pepto and whole milk were the only thing to help. I didn't eat anything else after I ate the shrimps which is why I'm going to assume it was then. Hurray for food poisoning. . With that being said I'll probably find a new place to get my mom's birthday dinners from.