Great Wall Chop Suey

The Great Wall Chop Suey Centre sits at the south end of Church Street, the central Gainsborough thoroughfare that runs from the Trinity Street junction down past the Old Hall conservation area and the parish church. The shop is one of the town's long-established Chinese takeaways, in business through several decades of central-Gainsborough retail change. The menu is built around the British-Chinese chop-suey and chow-mein tradition that the shop's name flags up — sweet-and-sour, satay, beef in black bean, curry-sauce dishes and the usual set-meal boxes — and trades primarily as a phone-order collection operation rather than the eat-in dining-room format. Local press reviews in the Gainsborough Standard have been a mixed bag over the years, with the friendly front-of-house generally praised but the cooking flagged as inconsistent at peak — a fair reflection of a small operation with a tight kitchen brigade. A central-Gainsborough unit with the kind of generational customer base that supports a town-centre Chinese for the long term.