Panda Express

Got the two meat plate with orange chicken, beef and broccoli, and fried rice. Gave me entirely too much rice, decent amount of chicken, and hardly any beef and a bunch of broccoli. Very stingy on meat in my the beef and broccoli, feel ripped off. Rice didn’t seem very fresh at all. Chicken was good. Wanted to get an eggroll or spring roll but they said wouldn’t have any ready for 10 minutes. Eaten at other Pandas before and had better experiences. Definitely not coming back to this one though.

The last several visits have been consistently good! My kids love Panda for a «fast food» option.
The ladies who work here are hands down awesome. Like «go out of your way to be nice and awesome» AWESOME. So, thank you for that Panda!
I come back here and love to say «hi» to the staff. Yes, I’m here that often. Ha!

Picked up dinner today. Restaurant is clean, staff was courteous, the server actually let me sample quite a few different dishes. In the end I picked the teriyaki chicken, which was tasty. I bought the family meal and had to wait for more of particular dish, well while waiting the server gave me rice and chicken in a small bowl for my wait. I thought that was nice gesture.

A word to the cautious. I was here at closing time tonight; I was just travelling through, never been before. All was quiet. One of the dishes I ordered was «warm-​ish»; the other was tending towards cold. Both contained meat. My problem: those dishes should have been =hot= in order to be safe. The restaurant was violating one of the major rules of the food service industry:
NEVER LET MEAT DISHES SIT AROUND FOR HOURS ON STEAM TABLES AT TEMPERATURES THAT BACTERIA ENJOY.
That is, don’t do it if you value your gastrointestinal tract.
Perhaps there had been a lot of turnover earlier in the evening, and those pans were actually fresh. On the other hand, perhaps there were =additional= things not being done carefully with the cooking. Hard to know.

Love the food. I always get the orange chicken. I usually get the pot stickers as well, though I do wish they were steamed instead.
Anyway, you probably already know about the delicious food. I just wish this location had a drive thru.

Love their honey walnut shrimp. I usually use the drive thru at this store. It is quick and easy to get a filling and healthy lunch. I like the fact that I can get steamed vegetables instead of rice, fried rice, or noodles. It’s the options I like. The beverages are a bit limited and pricey. Overall for Chinese food, I like Panda Express better than any of the local Chinese buffets in the area. The food is always fresh and the steamed vegie option is wonderful.

Fast food Chinese sounds like a great idea. Panda Express was fast, and the food was okay tasting. Definitely more about the fast part than the taste of the food.
I’m not sure if that is how Panda Express markets itself but it is «express» and the whole experience is a more fast food than sit down or buffet. I had only been to one other Panda Express and it was several years ago, and I never went back, so I don’t remember having been impressed. I love Asian/​Chinese food, so it seems a natural that I’d try Panda Express again when I felt like some noodles or sesame chicken.
Immediately I was reminded of the Chinese restaurants that you find at the mall and even though they were busy cooking the food in sight, the food tasted exactly like the food at every mall food court Chinese concession. That’s not necessarily bad but it means it’s neither unique nor special. I would have wondered if it hadn’t come from the same bag of frozen Chinese food.
The décor resembles a Mexican restaurant more than Asian or Chinese. It almost seemed as if it was a Mexican restaurant in a prior incarnation. So Panda Express is not much on atmosphere. It’s a bit too bright I think, but then that lends more of a fast food than a sit down ambiance to the restaurant. After going through the line with your tray, there’s the beverage dispenser at the end just like at most fast food places.
I stopped on my way to the movies so I appreciated the convenient parking outside and the speed in pointing at what you want to eat. In similar circumstances, I’d likely consider stopping here again, but unlike my many fellow diners (many with small children so it seems as if it is popular with families), who seemed to have made a special trip for Panda Express Chinese food, I’d likely go elsewhere instead.

Great food, very clean, cheap and all the samples you can handle. Most of the food is ready to go. Some items can be a little steam table aged.