Panda Hut

Great food. I heard it used to be a bit sketchy but it seems fine now. Their sweet and sour chicken is amazing, real white meat chicken not the stringy crap you often get in Chinese. They even offered me free egg rolls the last time I was there because I «looked hungry.»

Ordered on Sunday night. Got lo mein, Kung Pao chicken, and wonton soup. Was half way through the lo mein before discovering small green beetles in the noodles and one large green beetle. After biting into one and subsequently vomiting and then researching, they appeared to be vegetable or potato beetles. Pictures posted above!
Obviously won’t be ordering again, and only writing this to warn others. I’ve been sick since eating the food over 30 hours ago and will likely contact the local health departments. Disappointing since I’ve ordered from here many times before. All I can wonder is how many more bugs I must have eaten. Clean it up! As a fellow cook, I am concerned and considerably disgusted.

Aweful food. If this is what people call good then they have no taste in quality. I ordered delivery and the actual ordering was easy with the website but the entrees I ordered were nothing more than bland. I ordered the beef and scallops and there were two yes two pieces of scallops. Then I also ordered beef pan fried noodle and what I was expecting was a lo mein noodle lightly tossed in a pan to make it slightly crispy but edible. These noodles were thrown into a deep fryer and looked like shoestring potatoes and when I tried to eat them they were super chewy and had to spit it out. The crab Rangoon was good but how do you mess that up?

I am going to go out on a limb and give this place 4 stars. I work in the area, and this is one of the best lunch deals in town. For the low, low prices of $ 5.60 (that’s including tax), you can get a generous entrée, rice (fried or plain) and your choice of a side –either a soda, a soup or an egg roll. Carryout and delivery are the only two options. The food is made fresh to order and is piping hot. I’ve started a tradition in my office of ordering from them every Christmas Eve for those of us suckers who work that day — it’s a fun tradition and they always throw in lots of extras for us. This place is the real deal, if for no other reason than straight up value.

The food is really good and always shows up hot. Plan on about a hours wait and hopefully you don’t get the creepy delivery guy who looks inside your house when you open the door. Overall a very good place when your in the mood for some Chinese!

Your typical fast food Chinese-​American joint. It reminds me of those New York Chinese take-​out places… but this is in suburbia, of course. The food here is made-​to-​order and has a semi-​vast range of entrees on their menu (with some faded, back-​lit pictures above the cashier… makes it even more ‘authentic’). You have your fried rice, lo mein, rice noodles (vermicelli, not ho-​fun, flat thick rice noodles), egg noodles, and your other dishes served with rice.
I tend to not get the typical Beef Broccoli, Moo shu, etc when I go to these fast food places as that stuff is not really ‘Chinese’ in my opinion. So I went ahead and got the Yang Chow Fried Rice. (They spell it Young Chow, btw.) For those that don’t know, this is sort of your ‘house’ fried rice except it’s better, a sort of comfort food in my family. haha! It’s fried rice with BBQ pork (cha-​siu), shrimp, chicken, eggs, etc. They make it okay here. Nothing too spectacular and no extra flavoring. For those that like their chinese food a little more salty… you probably would need to add a little soy sauce. However, I am not the type to add soy sauce onto my Chinese food before tasting, so I thought it was okay after I added a little chili garlic sauce I had at home for some kick. yummo!
Overall…it is what it is. Chinese take-​out/​fast-​food. It’s either good or horrible. What more can it be?

I used to like this place, but just went in there today and ordered sweet & sour chicken for lunch. While I was waiting for my order, I looked around and realized how dirty the place is… ugh, it was so bad that I was starting to lose my appetite.
But that’s okay, because when I got my lunch back to my office, they had forgotten to put the sweet & sour sauce on the sweet & sour chicken! I called them to tell them of their error, and the guy tells me «OK, I get your number and give you 5% off next time.» Really, 5%? As if there would be a next time! Never again. I’ll go to Great Taste on North Ave. instead.

This place is great! When we are in the mood for «Chinese food» — this is the only place we call. Prices are reasonable and portions are HUGE! Highly recommend.

SOLID CHINESE THAT DELIVERS IS IN YOUR FUTURE. LUCKY NUMBERS 414−266−9999 (Panda Hut’s phone number, clever!)
ORDERED: Cashew Chicken — $ 8.25, Crab Rangoon — $ 3.75, Shrimp Lo Mein — $ 7.95
TASTED: The rangoons were better than ones I’ve had in Chicago’s Chinatown. Eight came in our order with the red cough syrup sauce that’s pure sugar. My Shrimp Lo Mein was shrimpy on the shrimp but tasted good. My girlfriend’s Cashew Chicken was really good and had generous amounts of cashews.
END TIPS: There’s a minimum delivery charge and their range is four square miles from the restaurant. They use 100% vegetable oil with no animal fat. Delivery was quoted at fifty minutes but food arrived in twenty. Open until 10 PM Monday through Saturday.

I’m Chinese and I’m pretty opinionated about my food. For an Americanized Chinese take-​out place, this restaurant has pretty authentic flavors. As my folks would say, they have a lot of «wok-​hai» which means wok power or fire power. In order to do Chinese food properly, you need to have a really hot fire/​stove. Even my mom says the flavors at this place is pretty decent.
I usually order the moo-​shu pork. My husband loves their General Tso’s and Sesame Chicken. The curry chicken with onion has good flavor even though the sauce is a little thin. The double sauteed sliced pork is tasty and spicy, though it’s probably better at a real Szechuan place (and avoid it if you’re afraid of oiliness). The Dragon and Phoenix is fun if you want variety but the shrimp is a little scarce at times.
But the thing that keeps me coming back to this place is that it has really good, high quality fluffy rice… the kind that you could refrigerate a few days and it would not be a brittle-​y mess! Even the more authentic places in town has really cheap, bad rice. Why oh why?