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Mark Pi's China Gate

Mark Pi's China Gate

32730 Walker Road, Avon Lake, 44012, United States Of America

Thai • Pizza • Chinese • Seafood


"The woman at the front desk, I’m assuming to be the owner. Is very rude. In short I’m warning you the bad reviews are not rumors they are truthful facts! I sometimes read the bad reviews and think they may be false but they are not when it comes to this place!!! You can read the story of what happened if you’d like but I would not order from here unless you want to deal with a very rude person for a very simple order.I first found this place through a Doordash order and saw it seemed nice and my mother really likes Chinese. The first time my mom put in an order she asked for extra bean sprouts, shrimp, and an egg in her shrimp fried rice she made sure to repeat that she wanted extra shrimp and bean sprouts as it is difficult to find them at some places and she really enjoys them. When I went to pick up the order the woman laughed at me and told me how my mother repeated the order multiple times and how she gave her a headache then goes just kidding as if that makes saying my mother gives her a headache is ok. At this time I just shrugged it off but when I got home the food didn’t have the extra bean sprouts and there were maybe 4 shrimp in the whole thing total. The second time we ordered, maybe 3 days later, my mother made sure to kindly repeat that she wanted extra shrimp and bean sprouts as it was missing the first time and once again when I went to pick it up the lady told me how my mother was a nuisance and gave her a headache then said just kidding again. Well guess what? We get home and one the food tasted old and it was missing the extra bean sprouts and shrimp again as it had like 3 shrimp in the whole thing!! So my mother calls them to kindly explain to the owner the she may want to ensure the the chefs are making the food fresh and adding what was ordered and the lady tells my mother “$15 does not make me any richer or poorer you can take you order somewhere else you are giving me a headache!” So my mom replies “Ma’am I’m not trying to be rude I just noticed that it wasn’t as fresh as the first time and it was missing what we ordered so I thought I should let you know” and the lady replies again “You are giving me a headache do not order from here again!” and hangs up.Back to what I was originally saying about how I found this place through door dash she was rude then too but I had ignored it at the time. I went to pick up the order and the owner was taking an order over phone and a young lady was standing next to her doing nothing so I asked the young lady if my order was ready and she replied that she would go check. As she begins to walk away the owner stops her and says no you will take this order and makes her take three orders over the phone while she (the owner) walks away and vanishes into the back somewhere. 20 minutes later she returns and asks what I want despite the fact that she knew why I was there and stopped the young lady from checking on the order for me. And yes, after this I had to wait another 15 minutes for the order to be finished."

Mark Pi's China Gate

Mark Pi's China Gate

2502 Maple Ave #1834, 43701, Zanesville, US, United States

Cafés • Asian • Chinese • Chicken


"Ordered Doordash delivery. Dasher was good , no worries. However, food received was plain awful. The Ma La string beans use to be good tasting, long, whole string beans, now they're cut up looking like green beans, over cooked soggy, over sauced, lack of spice and not good flavor. Ate a couple pieces and was very disappointed in the lack of quality. Almost as if it was leftover from a lunch buffet that they revived for dinner to save on food cost! Definitely not fresh looking or tasting! Went in trash. The shrimp pork lomein as well as the pork lomein were lifeless. Soggy, over sauced, no spring and no firmness to the noodles. Another recycle after lunch leftovers? So much sauce, so dark, yet flavorless. All I could taste was the overbearing sauce! Hardly any shrimp to my granddaughter's meal. She loves shrimp (it was small, flavorless and lacking in her meal) lomein but couldn't eat this from Mark Pi's. Both lomein meals, in the trash. I refuse to eat things that tastes terrible, no matter how much I've spent. It's not worth having an upset stomach. Quality went down, yet prices went up. This use to be a decent place to have chinese-American food. No longer. What a disappointment. Doordash food order totaled $57.30 (not including tip and fees), for 2 lomeins, string beans and an egg drop soup! Worth it if it was delicious. It was clearly NOT!!! In the trash where it belongs. Granddaughter ate about half of the egg drop soup, to be polite, (few bites of her lomein and didn't want it anymore either) and said she didn't want the rest of her soup, and if I could make some of my homemade egg drop soup for her instead. Sort of defeats the purpose of ordering take out, lol. She has to have dinner, so I ended up preparing a delicious homemade Japanese-Hawaiian meal for her, which she happily ate all of. Mark Pis take out order went to the garbage. They need to remember to take more pride in their cooking like they have in years past. Profit should not take over quality! Do they have different cooks??? Bad cooks bring bad meals, which brings bad taste to their customers. The inconsistency is unsatisfactory. Bring back the old quality values! We will never ordering take out here again. Will no longer dine in either. No more disappointments and waste of money. The lack of quality is not worth it. Our palates deserve better and no one should settle eating something just because of the cost. I'll go to Columbus for good, authentically prepared Asian food. Or better yet, cook at home! Hope your experience will be a good one, at least better than my own. Bon appetit and Godspeed everyone."