Panda Express

The food is ordinary Panda Express fare, so it is good grub but nothing special. My favorite dish here is the black pepper chicken (lots of black pepper, along with onions and celery). This store is unusual in that it is in a standalone building rather than a food court. There’s lots of natural light, and some nice high tables with bar stools in addition to the regular tables. They have their own parking and a drive-​through.

Friendly, fast and amazing customer service. Dinner was great and the price was bearable.

I like Panda Express, and I like this one as well, but only when I go at the right time of day.
For whatever reason, probably location, this Panda Express is not frequented by too many people, which means that unless it is lunch time, the food will not be fresh.
It makes business sense not to cook new food if there are no new customers, but it also means the food is not as fresh as it should be.
So if you like Panda Express make sure you go during lunch time or dinner time. Any other time the selection will be paltry and will have been sitting there for a while.

No vegetarian entrée options and the price I am charged for the same thing changes every visit. Not impressed. There are non-​chain options in the area with much better options and service.

This location is TERRIBLE! Every time that I have gone in there the steam line was ¾ EMPTY, and the empty steam pans have dried residue in them YUK! There is a bunch of teenage kids running the place with no supervision and the owner obviously doesn’t care! DO NOT PATRONIZE THIS LOCATION, YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED.

I ordered walnut shrimp, but it would take 3 min to cook. After eating my meal 25 min later still no shrimp.

I have been to many other Panda Express restaurants in the past, and i usually really like them — the food is usually good, and the wait is usually short. I will never go back to this one though, if any of them.
We went inside this one, and there was no one waiting in line. We stood there waiting, and for some reason, the woman helping people suddenly took a man and started helping him in front of us. That was fine, we assumed we didn’t see him or something. But then, she started helping his entire family as well — all 7 of them. The man kept saying that she should help us first — he insisted that we were there first. But she kept saying that she had to help all of them together. Finally the man gave up and his entire family trooped in front of us to pick out their food.
Fine — whatever. We waited while she rang all of them up, trying to be patient. However, as soon as she finished with them, she went and picked up the phone, completely ignored us, and talked on it for a least 5 minutes. No one else in the restaurant would help us either — they were all on the drive-​in orders, and so we stood there waiting, to no avail. 10 minutes after we walked in, with supposedly no one in front of us in line, we finally threw up our hands and left.
I wouldn’t go back in that restaurant if you paid me. There is some weird mojo in there.

Things that would make Panda Express better:
1) Brown rice. I guess this doesn’t really make sense, since if you’re eating at PE, you are probably not the most health-​conscious person. But I like it better than white rice, so they should have it.
2) Smaller pieces of broccoli. Every time I get beef and broccoli, I am faced with the unfortunate choice of having to jam a whole tree into my mouth and chew it, or trying to cut said broccoli with a wobbly plastic knife. Neither is a good option.
3) Sturdier plates. Idk what it is with Panda and flimsy tableware, but those cardboard plates have almost collapsed all over me numerous times.
4) Egg drop soup. They don’t have it. WHAT.
All and all, Panda’s pretty damn good for fast-​food Chinese. The food is actually better than some non-​fast food Chinese I’ve had the misfortune of encountering. I just don’t want my food to end up all over me. On a completely irrelavent note, I was sitting here one day when a fellow customer walked up to me and told me that I had beautiful feet. So there’s that.

Makes u sleepy. The staff is nice and energetic, I think its because they didnt eat the food.

Panda is fast food, keep that in mind. Everything is rather Americanized. I like the food and the quality (such as freshness) has always been excellent on my visits to this particular Panda Express. The place is always clean and the staff has always been extremely friendly. I never have to wait and I usually get more food than I can eat for a fair price. I dig it.

When I want cheap Chinese food in Monterey, CA I hit up the Panda in Sand City. I go there because they are consistent with their food and I know what I am going to get.
I hit up the Panda off 36 and was severly dissapointed by my 2 item combo. Yeah it was cheap $ 7 for a huge iced tea and my meal but my to-​go container felt like it was carrying air. The portions were tiny and I remember them overflowing in the past. Also the food was overcooked and had been sitting around for a while.