Panda Express

[cincodemayo1]

Anyone ever been to one of their stand alone locations? I've only had Panda in mall food courts...

I'll be going in a few minutes. Any suggestions?

[LisaAZ]

I eat Panda Express a lot. One of the few options near where I work. I used to be limited to the Orange Chicken, but they have a new eggplant/tofu in a garlic sauce that is really yummy. I'd eat it even if I didn't have too.

[antrobin]

Panda Express also owns a small chain of stand-alone "sit down" restaraunts called Panda Inn. Just a few locations in California, I believe. Anyway, I used to frequent the Panda Inn at Horton Plaza in San Diego, and I can confidently state that while neither aunthentic nor excellent, it's pretty good for chain food, and definitely better than PF Chang's.

[cincodemayo1]

Didn't see the black pepper chicken when I was there, but ther BBQ pork was quite tasty. So was the chow mein. I had chicken but they didn't put any sauce on it, so it wasn't so great. Neither was the spring roll. Wish they had a salad option. Overall: B-.

[calabasas_trafalgar]

Black pepper chicken, bbq pork and chow mein!

[JK Grence the Cosmic Jester]

The food is one hundred percent identical to the food in the malls. I'll get the occasional crave for their Orange Flavored Chicken (which tastes absolutely nothing like oranges).

As a side note, the only place I have found that does standalone restaurants better than food court locations is Chick-Fil-A. I have never seen a friendlier staff than at standalone Chick-Fil-A locations, and the food is better too.

Then there was the time I saw a Sonic in a food court. Something about that just did not compute.

[zGustibus]

That is only true on the west coast. The mall Panda Express on the East Coast don't hold a candle to the stand alone ones in L.A.

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!

[Kari]

Orange chicken and crab ragoons.