Panda Express

I don’t know what’s worse The service at Buffalo wild wings or the food at Pandora if I had a choice I would shut down both places you’re better off going to Walmart and get a couple Ramen noodles

Panda Express what more can you say. It’s always a great place to catch fresh cheap hot lunches.

I ate here on Sunday night, 4÷24÷16. It was awful. Not even close to tasting fresh. The honey walnut shrimp, which they charge $ 1.25 extra for had no taste. It was like it just sat in cooking oil too long. The string bean chicken breast had very soggy string beans. I have eaten at the Winter Garden location as well as the one by the Millinum Mall. Both of those locations have consistently good food!

This is regarding an online order I placed on April 1, 2016 with Panda Express in Clermont.
I haven’t eaten at a Panda Express since the one in the local Mall closed. First, let me say the food was really good and customer service like I haven’t seen in a very long while. When I arrived to pick up my order, only 5 minutes past the pick up time, I was met by an apologetic manager with a large cup in hand for a complimentary drink while I waited. A few minutes later she returned asking if I preferred extra meat or vegetables. I told her neither was necessary. Yet, she gave me an extra order of meat with my food order. When the order was done she went over the entire order with me and when we discovered 1 small thing missing, she left and came back with a free bag of cream cheese rangoon wontons. All and all a good experience on the eating end of things, prompting a good review and compliment from me on their website.
Where it went bad was on the online ordering process. Apparently, they run a funds’ verification on your bank account and the amount they verify depends on the number of people ordering. In my case — 3 people. They ran through a verification for $ 110.00. I had no idea that they actually debit the funds from your account and not just verify them to be available. My total order came to only $ 31.14, so a difference of nearly $ 80. When I finally discovered the $ 110.00 debit to my account, I emailed Panda to find out why this was still showing as $ 110 and not just the $ 31.14. However, I must say, it was no easy feat to find out any info on this whole verification process. Two days later they replied to me, explaining their process but not offering to fix anything, even though by their own explanation of how things worked, they by all rights should have already released my $ 80. It was now April 7, and my $ 80 in funds were still tied up. This time I contacted them and advised that if my money was not released today (the 7^th), I would take legal action. Later that day I had a voice mail providing me with an ID number and telling ME to call my bank and provide the ID number to release the funds. I believe them asking me to take care of this myself to be very insulting given their actions. By the time I called the bank later that day, my funds had already been released.
I will likely eat there again, but i will never again order online!

Not impressed. The fried rice had an occasional pea thrown in and no flavor. Had the chicken with green beans and the mushroom chicken. Neither had any flavor. Much better take out Chinese options in town

My daughter and I decided to try out the new Panda Express here in Clermont. My daughter had the mushroom chicken and lo mein (which the server insisted was chow mein); I had the walnut shrimp (came without any walnuts), lo mein and two veggie rolls. The food was barely warm, the lo mein tasted as though it’d been around too long which is puzzling considering the number of people in the place — you’d think the serving bowl would be turned over rather quickly — perhaps it’s because of the heating lamps? Anyway, the shrimp were pretty tasty although only lukewarm. The veggie rolls were greasy and barely lukewarm (probably kept warm with those heating lamps) — they actually made me queasy. Neither my daughter nor I liked our food, so we ended up dumping both platefuls in the trash and left.
We won’t be back.
I guess I should have known better — the only really good Chinese food in the area is found at #1 Wok on Hwy 50 in the little shopping center with Gold’s Gym and K-​Mart. Now there’s really good Chinese food! It’s always made to order but is ready in 10 – 15 minutes. And they’ll gladly change things for you (I don’t care for the baby corn in Chinese veggie dishes, so they don’t put them in. I appreciate that.) The only thing is that it’s a take-​out place, although they do have 1 small table which seats 2 people (really just a place to wait while your order is being prepared). Nothing is ever greasy. It’s always right out of the wok — fresh and hot! Try it! I’m sure you’ll be happy.

I like it because it’s tasty food and there is quality control unlike other Chinese restaurants where you can see that the vegetables were way past their prime when they hit the pan and the meat is mystery brown stuff. I’ve tried every Chinese place in town and vowed never to return for lack of quality /​poor taste.
I know it’s a chain but it satisfies the desire for Chinese food for a good price. I do not care for their egg
Rolls, but it’s not super greasy.
I always get the General Tso’s chicken:)

I’ve just recently gotten hooked to Panda Express. At first, never cared much for them. Always thought they were the McDonald’s version of Chinese food with a much heftier price tag. With that being said, I never consider their food to be very authentic, in comparison to the local mom and pop Chinese establishments. It is good, but in my opinion it’s not as good as some of the other local family owned restaurants.
I am usually not someone who takes the time to write reviews (good or bad), but in my recent visit to Panda Express the experience was so upsetting, that I feel the need to let everyone know. I decided to go through the drive though. My order was for a bowl of honey walnut shrimp with a side order of lo mein. Looking forward to what I thought was going to be a real treat, quickly turned into disappointment. My entre should have been considered the lo mein, and the side should have been the honey walnut shrimp. I ended up with a huge mound of lo mein, and a small portion of shrimp. I would say that I could have easily had about 6 to 8 shrimps in my meal. To make things more interesting, they actually charge an extra $ 1.25 for the honey walnut shrimp entre. In other words, I paid extra to garnish my lo mein with a few shrimps. My lesson here is a simple one. Next time I go, I will go inside rather than drive through. I will clearly let the server know that I am paying for a real portion, not a garnishing of shrimp. Would I recommend eating there… Sure, the food is good. Unfortunately, you need to baby sit the kids that serve your food. If you do go through the drive through, make your portions clear when placing the order and physically check the order.

This place hasn’t been here long & the food is decent for fast food. However, today I had fairly rude customer service from two employees prompting this review. It was about 01:00 PM on a Sunday & there were three cars ahead of me in line. There was some conflict with the car ahead of me which involved multiple conversations & included the manager sticking his head out. By the time I got to the window it had been 20 minutes. The girl told me that my order would take 15 minutes to make & would I mind waiting. I asked why it hadn’t been started when I ordered at the machine 20 minutes prior. She told me that there was a problem with the guy ahead of me & that she was alone & had to deal with it. She asked me to pull around to the front & wait & I reminded her that I also needed chopsticks & plum sauce (which I also said at the speaker). Waited another 10 minutes when another girl came out, handed me the food, & started to wander away. I asked about the sauce & chopsticks & she told me the sauce was in the bag. She then rolled her eyes & went off to get the chopsticks. when she came back with the chopsticks she didn’t walk around the railed seating area like before but just leaned over it requiring me to get out of my car to get the chopsticks from her. I mentioned that there was no plum sauce in the bag, only soy, & she rolled her eyes again, looked very annoyed & headed back inside to get it. Fortunately this time she came to the car but still. I understand everyone has bad days but there is no reason for surly behavior & rudeness when the error could have easily been fixed if people just listened a bit more. In their defense there was an extra set of spring rolls in my bag but it doesn’t make up for the attitude & wasted time.

It was me and my husbands first time venturing into the new clermont panda, we drive to the winter garden village panda all the time so we know panda pretty well. We must say it was nicely clean, food was stocked, and had tons of employees on staff, yet there was a lot of loud chaos behind the counter too especially when we were eating our food (& it was not panda-​related) We understand it’s pretty new so it was slow, but standing at the counter for someone to acknowledge us to order our food was a little frustrating. After getting our food to the table, sadly both our orange chicken was cold. We will try again soon

Long line. Employee touching food without gloves. Cold orange chicken. Uncooked noodles. Not a good experience.

I would give this place a 3 — 3.5 overall… about average. I’m happy we have them as a new food option in our community though.
There was a line of cars wrapping around the drive thru so we ventured inside. I’m glad we did since it gave us an opportunity to take our time checking things out and sampling a couple of the meat options.
The orange chicken was pretty good. It was crispy on the outside and had a nice orange flavor, with a little kick. The Beijing Beef was just a tad spicier and had a slightly crispy outside coating which was good. I had the end of a batch of beef so it didn’t taste as fresh as I would’ve liked.
Unfortunately, we weren’t too fond of the chow mein. It was dry and a little bland to all 3 of us. Next time we will try the fried rice.
Overall opinion… Plenty of choices, inexpensive and good portions.

First night was a success with a limited menu. We got the big plate and split it between the two of us with an egg roll and order of veggie spring rolls. The side we split between fried rice and noodles. The special sesame chicken was good and steak was very tasty. The noodle were prepackaged cooked but not cooked all through which was the way they were served undone. The egg roll was not so good and tasted old in a newly open restaurant. The rice was good and saucy chicken was diced to order and sauced to order to my satisfaction. The service was fast for order and line went fast to checkout but the checkout was slow. The side shrimp was crunchie but did not makeup for no dumplings or Rangoon. The place is reasonably priced and portioned generous. A new chain in Clermont has taken root in the BJs parking lot.

It’s the best Chinese food you can get in Clermont if that’s worth anything. They have good Shanghai beef.