Panda Express? (fast Panda?)

[ghostsinthemachine]

WTF does that mean? Everybody knows it takes all day to cook a panda!

Just came from there for the first time and I gotta tell ya it was pretty sucky. Chow Mein, all noodles, no flavor. The entree portions are teeny and the prices high. I can go to my regular place for less, get way better food, not hear classic rock (yeah, that again) and leave full... yet there is a line around the corner at PandaE. And I am still hungry as a Duran Duran song.

A line full of take out orders, all talking or texting in the line waiting for the counter people to move the line along.

And the take out orders come in styrofoam (not rare in the to go category) and the eat in plates were paper (Which is nice)....

Is it the candy entrees (Walnut shrimps and orange chicken seem to be the main order) that keep people coming back? Cuz I probably won't.......(They don't have soup!)

[Angry Dragon]

1. You should have gone to Kung Fu Panda

[Major Nikon]

2. I like Panda Express more than most Americanized Chinese food

I like their option of substituting steamed vegetables for fried rice or noodles, and they have several entree options which aren't swimming in sauce like most Americanized Chinese restaurants. Their entry sizes are small compared to other places, but neither are they 3,000 calories which is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. They have a number of things I won't touch, like the two entrees you mentioned along with their spring and egg rolls, but they have enough good choices that can pretty much always get something that's fresh off the wok. I don't go there all that often, but I almost never go to other Americanized Chinese restaurants.

[LiberalElite]

3. If you think the food is sucky

what difference does it make anyway that the portions are teeny?

[ghostsinthemachine]

4. Well mostly because I paid $8.50

And didn't want to be hungry after I ate there..

[LiberalElite]

5. Ok. Gotta say that does make sense. nt

[jrandom421]

6. The original restauant was called Panda Inn

Then they created the fast food equivalent and called it Panda Express.

[ghostsinthemachine]

7. Oh yeah that info is plastered all over the restaurant

along with four freaking televisions, one playing Panda-centric programming, the others on sports channels. That and the classic rock playing far too loudly and you've got the Short Attention span eatery for the new millennium.

[madinmaryland]

8. The McDonalds of Chinese food.