Panda Express

Soggy always. Never have fresh vegetables unless you request them then they give them to a person that didn’t even order them. Way too many wasted lunch hours here waiting for «fast food»… at least they smile when they make you wait for garbage

We don’t «expect» much at a Panda Express. «It is what it is»…and I am not a picky eater, so sometimes when you are hungry and rushed it seems like a good enough option. But! I had lunch there yesterday and my complaints are these:
There was only one table available and we had to clean it ourselves… despite the fact there seemed to be plenty of employees on hand. The fountain machine was acting really crazy. It is «leaking» and there are handwritten signs on it about what is «out». The diet cola (my choice) was weirdly aerated (it took forever to get the massive foam to calm down). Geez, get some maintenance for that machine! Finally, small matter, but we had to «request» our fortune cookies and the employee seemed a little put out that I asked for them. Come on, lady, there is zero ambience while eating at a Panda Express, so the cookie can indeed be the only «fun» thing there! The food was ok. Whoever is in charge of this location should be reading these reviews, accepting the feedback and making a better effort.

This place will NOT be earning my business again. I got there and tried to get in the side door. It was locked. I figured «maybe it’s an emergency exit», nope. When I went inside it was marked «during business hours this door must remain unlocked.» That’s a fire egress code violation, yall can get fined a lot of money for that.
When I went to get my food, I noticed that everything was almost gone. This was at 8:30 and they close at 10:30. That’s unacceptable. For a place that doesn’t serve your food fresh, they should have everything full, ready to go at all times. Even the sauces were empty. They literally scraped the bottom of the container to give me the sauce that came with my teriyaki chicken. It looked like tar. It was gross.
I ordered half chow mein and half fried rice. They filled the container full of chow mein and gave me maybe a quarter cup of fried rice. That’s just annoying.
I eventually sat down with my food and went to start eating my teriyaki chicken and noticed that when they cut it they didn’t cut it completely. it wasn’t in individual strips, they were still connected a little bit. I managed to break it apart and took a bite and it was just gristle and connective tissue. There was no meat at all in this big bite of chicken that i took. That ended up being like half my portion of chicken was just gristle and fat. In addition, the orange chicken I got was not very well sauced and soggy. Not crispy at all like it’s supposed to be.
But what really did it for me was the horrible condition their bathroom was in. The floor was literally flooded. I’m talking like a half inch of water on the floor. And instead of cleaning it up like a responsible employee would, they just decided to throw in a wet floor sign. Nothing makes me angrier than such a blatant disregard for your patrons’ safety. Imagine somebody in a wheelchair trying to transfer from their wheelchair to the toilet on the slippery floor. That’s a lawsuit. Regardless of whether or not you had the wet floor sign up.
I noticed when I went to order that there were like three employees just hanging out in the back area doing nothing. They could have been doing literally anything else. They could have been refilling the food, or mopping the floor in the bathroom, or literally anything else. I think the employees here are lazy and management is probably poor as well for not getting on top of their lazy employees. I will not be returning.

What a fkin shit is this. Never come again anymore. Fkfkfkfkfkfkfkfkfkdkfkkfkfkfkkckfkfkfkfkkfkfkckfkckkfkfkfkfkfkkffkkfkfkfkfkkfjfkfkfkkfkfkfkkfkfkfkkfkfkfkfkfkkfkf

Good, dependable, fast Chinese food. If you’re expecting notable service or any other silly extravagances you’re a moron. It is what it is. Hot and delicious. You can almost always count on a Panda Express anywhere to taste the same as the next. Very consistent. The only ‘beef’ I have with this location is that twice when I’ve visited at the piqué of lunch hour they had NO BROWN RICE AVAILABLE. Come on now, management, there’s no excuse for that.

I just watched a server ignore a man in line. She kept helping people behind him. When he complained and asked for a manager, turns out she was the manager. Oh well… she told him to not come back. Even though he called her a lot of names, I can understand him being upset. This has turned me off completely on this restaurant.

All Panda Express restaurants are very similar in taste. The chefs all cook following the same recipe with the same ingredients, so the end product varies little. Since I know what to expect taste-​wise, the thing I tend to look for when visiting Panda is portion size. Some staff tends to skimp on scoops, while some are overly generous. My experiences at this location have been generally favorable with a typically average to larger size portions. In my opinion there is nothing worse than paying an $ 1.25 extra for only four shrimp. I do however tend to try to ingratiate myself with the server in a feeble attempt to increase my «haul». I don’t know if it ever really works but I’m sure it cant hurt. The restaurant is clean, the service fast and efficient, and the parking lot is in perpetual disarray (due to its compact size).
Also, for those of you that don’t know or are feeling adventurous, Panda supposedly has a few secret menu items. $ 1000 gets you real panda meat as an entrée and for $ 10,000 you can kill the panda yourself! Do not underestimate them though. They might appear to be calm and docile creatures but they are still bears.

Cheap and quick. When you have a half hour for lunch you go with simple. I’ve had enough Subway to last me awhile so I wanted different and staying at Target and grabbing food can be blah, and they gyro place in Mall 205 is nothing special. So in walking distance is a salad place, sushi (that doesn’t open til after 11) and Panda Express. Plus one of the McMenamin’s places.
Panda Express it was. I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve been to one. I think the number is three. Twice in Texas, once here. It’s not a place I ever go out of my way for. Portland is known for quite a bit of great food. From what everyone says, Chinese is not one of them, or at least East Coast Chinese food. Shandong over in Hollywood is pretty good, but it’s different.
I ate simple and quick and will admit the mixed veggies were steamed and crunchy. Lots of broccoli, carrots and green beans. My mushroom chicken lacked much chicken and my beef dish was tough on the beef. You’d think that me being there early, the food being fresh (at least I hope so), that it might be a bit better… oh well.
The counter person was friendly! That’s all.

Look, Panda is Panda. It’s as authentic a Chinese meal as Taco Bell is old-​style Mexican. So there’s that. This location features one particular staff member that adds a twist to the standard Pandafare, though.
She SCREAMS at people. There were six people in the place. Quiet as quiet gets. Except when she «talked». She wasn’t mean. Just incredibly loud, enough that the few other patrons in there were clearly noticing it, too. She smiled. Then she yelled at you. Then she smiled again.
It was odd.

This place is SEVERELY overpriced, and for quality comparable to a supermarket deli steam table. The new thai chicken dish that they push so hard tastes like NOTHING. Seriously, it’s amazing that they invented a sauce that can actually remove the chicken flavor from chicken. Anybody who likes this stuff must be willing to eat pretty much whatever! This is about as close to chinese as Taco Bell is to authentic mexican food (which is at least dirt cheap)… in fact, now that I think about it, supermarkets actually do chinese better. I’d rather go home and heat up a can of soup in the microwave than eat here again.

Its panda express… its not amazing but it sure does help kick a hangover! I went to the new location which does not have a Unilocal listing but they all are the same. Greasy, super salty, and often times, sitting out for a while.

VERY clean place, and the employees are very attentive.

Two stars is generous. I’m amazed at how they can take as many ingredients as they do and they can make dishes with no flavor.
Today’s entrees were Black pepper chicken and Beijing beef. While the chicken had good pepper flavor the veggies were lost.
The beef was not good at all. Such small pieces and they are fried to complete oblivion.
Save your money for the vast choices that abound here in P Town.

Best food for the price around

I don’t care what anyone says. I love Panda Express! the food is really really good. Not the most authentic, but if you’re in a hurry and you feel like Chinese, give it a try.

Ugh. Can I give something negative stars? Nothing is good about this place (which is sad, because I have been to the original Panda Inn in Glendale, and it is pretty dang good). My dad is in town, and he wanted to go here so he and his wife could get something that «they would know that they liked». I hadn’t been to one of these places in years, and I generally avoid fast food (except for Popeye’s and the occasional Burgerville), but I agreed to go anyway. I especially avoid bad Chinese food, because it is so prevalent, and bad Chinese is REALLY bad. Well, this is one such place.
Anyway, we went, it sucked. The service was, of course, fast, but the food was nasty. The broccoli beef was tasteless (somehow they have a magical sauce that can cover up even the light, natural flavors of beef and broccoli, and make them taste like nothingness). The chow mien was gross. The «mandarin chicken» was the usual lowest-​common-​denominator: sweet + salty + chicken. I was hungry, and it was paid for, so I ate it. I hated myself all afternoon for doing so, though.
All of the fortune cookies are depressingly cheerful (and all carry the corporate Panda name below the fortune). Everyone knows that their fortune is not going to be all good, and usually, when you go out to Chinese, at least one person at the table gets the ambiguous fortune, such as «Use caution when commuting to work tomorrow», or the ever alarming «Enjoy your life to the fullest» (the second one always seems like it should have an ellipses at the end). Here, it seems, everyone is destined to be rich, famous, or at least well loved. I call BS.
Next time my dad comes to town and wants to go to Panda, I will either
a) go somewhere else nearby and get food, like a 3-​week old sandwich from the cooler at the am/​pm;
b) forage through the nearest dumpster for the least rotten non-​panda food morsel I can find; or
c) go hungry.
Any self respecting human should avoid this place at all costs.