/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5732826
>go to panda express
>see bacon chunks
this is where you should've noped out of there

i'd rather go to the store and pick up a few ingredients to make something simple and tasty... unless food is actually prepared fresh, it doesn't quite taste that good most of the time

What the fuck Panda Express?
You can put shit like this on the menu, yet you take away my eggplant and tofu?

So glad we have some decent alternatives in the area.

>>5732845
You seriously don't see how they'd make more money with orange chicken with bacon than tofu or eggplant?
This isn't some high class place we're talking about

>>5732845
my ex was a vegan. she said literally nothing there is vegan/vegetarian. all the sides use chicken stock.

>>5732860
Looks like I found a new go-to fast food place.

>>5732860
And that's probably why it tasted so good.

I had no idea that Panda Express attracted any vegans in the first place.

>>5732826
>be at panda
>cashier asks if id like to try orange chicken with bacon as sample
>sure
>forgets about my sample
>go home and eat my plate of food without crying over nothing

>>5732902
didn't get offered a sample.

>>5732826
>be me

piss right the fuck off you insufferable nit-whit.

>>5732826
>>5732826

you dumb nigger the food is out in the god damn open how could you not see what was going into your take home box.

>>5732913
You could have just asked.

One of the few nice things about Panda is that they'll let you sample every single item on their menu if you wanted to.

>>5732826
>be me
>go to panda express

Those were your first two mistakes.

>>5732826
>order a pizza
>ask for a small garlic bread
>notice the menu says 4 pieces for 3.99
>get pizza
>1 slice of garlic bread

Time and time again Pizza Hut has failed.

Pizza hut
First time they forgit my cheese sticks
Second forgot cheese sticks and said theyd send some and never did
Third time send out those shitty wedges and forgot my soda and said theyd send it and never did
4th time they took 2 hours and kept giving me the run around on the phone and I finally got it but it was all cold and guy asked for a tip. I threw the pizza at his car and screamed at the reigional manager for 20 minutes they tried giving me a gift card but I hung up on them. I hope that place burns down.

>>5732826
>be me

>>>/reddit/

>>5732924
>call me a nigger
>didn't read post

top kek

>>5732826
That's a pretty normal price for average Asian food. Got to get the lunch special

>>5732826
>panda express
>average asian food

Just how bad are the below average Chinese joints where you live? In my experience Panda Express is usually on par with or worse than a typical all you can eat Chinese buffet, which are awful.

>>5732854
after taking that out they now have no vegetarian options.

>>5732980
there is only average and bad asian food.

>>5732989
They didn't have any vegetarian options to begin with.

Even the steamed vegetables are made with chicken stock.

>>5732832
>noped out of there
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>5732826
>go to panda express
>turn 360 degrees and walk away

>>5732832
>go to panda express
This is where the both of you should have noped out of there.

WaWa. Quality has tanked

>>5733468
huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Panera (I'm noticing a common theme here).

Not only do they overcharge for what you generally get (and if you ever pay what they're asking for the pasta bowls you're a complete retard), but they continually fuck up my orders. Either it's really hasty and lazy sandwich construction, or they give you completely wrong items. On more than one occasion, I have ordered, for example, a salad, and been given a pasta dish instead. The mistakes are of this nature. I'm often ordering for a group of people so I need to get the correct item and I ask for them to make it for me. They almost always ask me to pay for the correct item AND the one they made because they couldn't get their shit straight. Fuck that. Panera used to be good for fast food but success has ruined them.

>Talking shit about panda express

>>5733622
>going to panera to order an over priced salad
fuck ass nigga

>>5732826
>place you are "done with"
every chain restaurant, diner, steakhouse, burger joint, Italian-American restaurant, Americanized Chinese joint, cheap sushi, slice joint pizza, subs, fusion cuisine and New American.

Not that I dislike any of it, but I never need to eat any of that shit again. Boring boring boring.

So I had the white rice the other day from panda express and it was absolutely disgusting. In fact it always tastes shitty like that. Can I get a second confirmation so I know its not just me?

>>5733649
>being the definition of hipster

>>5733643
>I'm often ordering for a group of people
Learn to read, faggot. It's not my fault someone else wants to waste his money.

>>5733622
>They almost always ask me to pay for the correct item AND the one they made

And you don't explode at their manager every single time?

What are you doing, man?

>>5733743
if they fuck up they pay, if you just dont like it you pay

>>5732963
>lying on the internet

>>5733666
>calling anyone tired of food courts and strip mall restaurants "hipster".

I sure hope you can do better than this.

>>5733649
can I get your autograph

>>5733772
You'd have to ask politely in person, and know which gold record I produced. The few a year I encounter under those circumstances get my worthless fucking autograph. But I won't lie; I'm pleased as fuck that they ask for it.

>eating memefood

Maybe if you werent so LOL BACON XDDDD you'd have saved $9.42

>>5732826
Actually tried this on accident, some douche working there put in the bacon orange chicken instead of the regular. Didn't notice until we were home, country living so home=an hour away, so I said fuck it and tried it.

Tasted like shit.

Aside from it being dry as fuck, the liquid smoke on the bacon made the whole damn thing taste like it was smothered in BBQ sauce.

>>5732926
Nephew did this, kept asking for sample after sample till they started denying him. He then asked for a cup for water, they gave it to him, he went to get water, drank and said "ahh, what a good lunch" and walked out.

>generic local Asian restaurant
>"authentic"
>always crowded all the time
>order most popular dish
>mediocre meat in cloying sauce
>rush home to restroom
>agony
>in tears
>later invited to go again
>fine
>this time get what friends get
>order comes
>visible chunks of cigarette ash in food
>order comes again "fixed"
>mediocre meat in water sauce
>restroom
>in tears
>have to skip plans for night
>going with another group
>no, anon you have to order *this*! I get it every time
>mediocre, watery food
>agonizing, watery shit
>check Urbanspoon
>82%
>So authentic! By far best food in town! I've been eating here for 16 years! Wow!

>>5732952
>>5732963
Pizza hut are shit, twice they've forgotten sauce or something else on a delivery. Never using those fuckers again

>>5734044

How's life in des moines?

>>5732826
>go to Asian whatever food place
> order Pork curry rice thing
>give me a dish with cup of rice, a chicken schnitzel and a piece of pork covered in curry sauce to reveal it was just a pile of bones

The pork literally would have been 10% meat, 80% none, 10% fat.
What's fucked up is if you explain it to the inept Asian lady at the counter she won't understand what your complaint is even about

How does panda express stay in business when there are chinese restaurants literally everywhere? I can almost understand sbarro's since a lot of the country don't have good italian food, but there's literally nowhere that doesn't have a perfectly fine chinese restaurant or 10.

You could have gone to any asian restaurant and gotten better food, freshly cooked, for less. You deserved what you got faggot.

>>5734631
It has a drive through, and it's different/trashier than most Chinese places. It stays open for the same reasons Taco Bell stays open.

>>5732826
That orange chicken with bacon clearly needs some american cheese melted over it

>>5734506
I've never had any problems with them but i've never gotten take away from them, i think they might not even have it in my country.
I've just eaten their pizza buffe and it's delicious.

>>5734652

ranch dressing is what it really needs

>>5732826
Panda express is easily the worst fucking fast food joint I've ever experienced.

Btw I'm a girl

>>5733860
>memefood

I want this forced "memefood" meme and both of its users to die painfully, choking on a strip of bacon.

I can't wait for them to invent Mac and Cheese Fried Rice. I could use a good vomit

>Be on Ketosis
>Oh, Panda has dishes that are just meat and veggies right? Under 20 carbs sounds easy.
>A cup of chopped broccoli has 3.4 carbs, and meat has 0. Sauces and spices might contain a few.
>Check Menu
>All I can eat is mixed vegetables
>Beef broccoli has 22 carbs

Turns out everything they cooking is drenched in that disgusting syrup glaze shit. Every meat dish had 3-4x more sugar then their fortune cookies, 15+ grams easily.

>>5732950
The first on being himself?

>>5735018
Those two whole carbs over your limit will surely fuck up your entire diet.

>>5735018
>doing keto

>>5733903
Your nephew sounds like a exhausting person

>>5732921
>be me
>laugh at faggots getting mad when people say ">be me"
kek lel XXDD

>>5733598
Go out instead of cooking orange chicken yourself. This is where all you three should have noped out there.

>>5734044
>>visible chunks of cigarette ash in food
black pepper retard

>>5734631
Panda express is sadly cleaner than most of the Chinese/Vietnamese restaurants available. Especially at that price range, if you go to most local Chinese places and spend less than $8 for a meal you're pretty much guaranteed to get food poisoning.

>>5735367
Back to reddit faggot

>>5732826

Fuck panda express and anyone who eats that over priced garbage

>>5733903
lmao you have a tight nephew

>>5734631
white people are scared of places that are too ethnic

I have a related story with panda express with that abomination
>be at panda express because hungry as fuck
>go in ask for orange chicken with brown rice
sorry sir we are out of orange chicken for now just wait a few minutes
>fuck it try it with the god awful bacon because that's all they have
>ask for brown rice
sorry sir we are out of brown rice
>get white rice instead
>decide to get crab rangoon because why not
>we have 1 more but will have some ready in a couple minutes and we'll bring it to your table
>pay for my shit and try the bacon orange chicken
>fucking gross it gave the orange chicken a smoky flavor and doesnt go well with the orange sauce
>the worker comes up to me with the crab rangoon
>gave me an extra one
>still ate my orange chicken because i was that hungry
>never going to get orange chicken with bacon there again

>>5732826
I'm done with most local Italian take out places around here besides one that doesn't have the best food but I can trust them to make a good pizza and fried calamari every time I order.

>order from one place later in the afternoon
>just a large pizza and some fried calamari
>takes forever but I brushed it off cause they were busy that night
>get it and all of the food is so salty I can't eat it. It's like someone dumped an entire salt shaker on my food.
>get a free order next time
>try next time, not a busy time
>same shit happens and I never go back again

Than it happened with somewhere else and not only that but the food was total shit altogether.

>place order. pizza, calamari, some garlic knots
>took quite a while at a pretty dead time, not a good sign already I'm thinking.
>finally get it and when I get home the pizza dough is like cardboard and has no flavor, toppings were equally as terrible and overall tastes like salt and really shitty canned sauce.
>the calamari is a just a giant glob of oil and overly salty batter. so much of it not even everyone in the house could finish if they did eat it.
>it was literally a glob, it was like someone took a giant handful of tiny squid chunks sloppily mixed with whatever the batter was and tossed it into a deep frier altogether.
>the garlic knots were tiny and over cooked and absolutely smothered in some oil and butter garlic mixture.
>I take one bite and it's tastes like nothing but char and salt.
>don't even bother to complain, just only go to the place I always have now.

Italian places that do take out are slipping around here and I'm not even picky. How do you consistently make food that is so terrible and/or salty that it is almost inedible?

>>5734531
god damn, the chinese and tex-mex in dsm are horrid. nice town if you want to eat pork and butter cows all the time.

>>5732832
>be me
>bacon

He is clearly a redditor so bacon = epic for the win

>be typical office wageslave
>lunch is the only time i can feel a shred of happiness
>only get 30 minutes
>frequent a local chinese place
>always get the lunch special for takeout
>find out that the lunch special is supposed to come with a soup
>never get a soup, but they still charge me full price
>they only do one type of meat that tastes like actual meat and it's chicken
>their beef dishes taste like grainy liver
>decide to give the beef dishes one more chance
>order my go to dish but with beef instead of chicken
>happily eating away
>this isn't so bad
>have that moment where the dish goes from great to revolting
>remove the sticky sauce coating from one of the fried pieces of beef
>taste it without the sauce
>grainy liver taste and texture
>in the trash it goes
>felt like shit all day

> This place makes a dish I don't like so I'm done with them and won't eat the stuff they make that I do like.

>>5736428
I'm more upset about the fact that they've removed so many good dishes over the years to make room for abominations like this.

>go to quizno's
>order italian sub
>meat is paper thin, try some on its own and it barely has any flavour
>eat a quarter of it, then put all of the meat from the other half on the remaining quarter
>mfw it cost more than a comparable subway sandwich
>throw the rest away
>years later
>coworker wants quizno's so we go there for lunch
>order snack sized chicken caesar flatbread sandwich
>transparent chicken cold cut with pink tomato and iceberg lettuce

Why do the people at my work love this place? Why is it so shitty?

>>5734647
>It stays open for the same reasons Taco Bell stays open.
...because it's cheap and easily accessible to stoners?

>>5736701
I don't think I've ever seen much in the way of stoners there.

It's mostly soccer moms, hipsters, and a strangely large amount of middle aged Mexican gardeners.

>>5736711
>It's mostly soccer moms, hipsters, and a strangely large amount of middle aged Mexican gardeners.
AKA stoners

>OP starts a 'places you are "done with"' thread
>Whole thread is about Panda Express
>Asians, asains everywhere

>be me

Literally fuck off you moron.

>>5736813
>Soccer mom
>Stoner
I don't think so.

>>5736813
> Soccer mom
> stoner
I'd watch that movie

>>5736882

It was already a TV show

>>5736889
Orphan Black?

>>5736889
I was thinking more like Breaking Bad or American Beauty, except with a gender switch.

>>5736882

I was in the mood for Chinese food, and remembered this thread. Decided not to go to panda and went to some place called Jade China near my grandparents house. Got a 3 items meal for 6, and the flavor is so much better. Plus they packed the motherfucker up tight, any more food and the container would've overflowed.

>>5735175

It's a daily limit. So if I eat that and eat some onion later it could fuck me up pretty badly. Headaches and fatigue for days bro.

>>5735192
it worked, lost 8 pounds in two weeks with barely any exercise, and it's really hard for me to lose weight.

>Go to the Panda express near the college campus.
>Everythings under heatlamps all day long.
>A friend that works there tells me horror stories.
>Never go again for years.

Couple years later
>Girlfriend won't stop yelling about a panda express opening soon
>Flashbacks
>Tell her never ever
>We go anyways after whining
>We go in
>Open kitchen, dudes cooking "fresh" food in woks
Seems pretty cool
>Get the typical 'authentic' asian fare
>They slice the grilled Teriyaki Chicken on a cutting board before they serve it to you
>Pretty decent. 7.00 per meal

Panda Express sure isn't hell as bad as it used to be. I was told they used to just fucking cook everything in the mornings and leave it under heatlamps all goddamn day unless they ran out of it and how all their food gave you massive hemorrhaging diarrhea.

I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't the case anymore.

>>5736998

Could just be the location. I live next to a BK, and they starting selling those cinnabon cinnamon buns. Since I love those, I bought two. Tasted like frosted cardboard. Later on I went to a local gaming store next to a BK, my friend said was eating one, and said they were good. I went and gave it another try, it was fucking delicious. So I gave the one by my house the benefit of the doubt, and tried it again. Now I know better.

Odd thing is, that one charges only $0.60 for an extra patty, while the one by my house charges double that. So when I'd go over there I'd buy the $1.49 bacon cheeseburger and add two patties on it. MFW

>>5736998
fast food depends on the restaurant
if you go to one at a college
literally any college even the good ones
it will be shit
go to a wealthy neighborhood, and it will be acceptable

Place I'm done with:

/ck/

This board is so full of elitist, pseudo pretentious neckbeards that a person cant even say they went to panda express without being attacked.

Yes, fresh and homemade is better you cockholsters, but sometimes a person has to eat out. I am sick of somebody saying something like "went to Whataburger" and gets hit with hurr durr why didn't you make the burger fresh at home with some prime dry aged wagyu and lettuce grown hydroponically by a Buddhist monastery.

This board was fun at one point..

>>5733771
>being such a poorboi that he's never had good american cuisine

>>5733666
>which, in my mind, means anyone wealthier or better educated than me because i have a massive inferiority complex.
FTFY bro.

>>5736580
>saying based quiznos isn't as good as sewageway

Quiznos is amazing, however due to horrible corporate management the chain is dying a slow death and has largely disappeared all over the country

RIP Greek chicken flatbread and horseradish sauce

Panda express can be pretty good, but holy shit it's fucking terrible if the food is any older than 10 mins. GF fucking loves eating there. I'd rather order from local asian places. $20 at panda for tons of noodles and little protein vs $16 for huge thing of chicken and veggies with choice of rice/noodles.

So far though my favorite has to be the teriyaki chicken breast.

As for places I'm absolutely never going to again it would have to be taco bell. It's been like 7 years since I ate at one.

>>5737084
He can afford to be discerning about where he eats, and yet somehow he's poor? What color is the sky in your world?

>>5732826
> Go to local Italian restaurant chain (4 in town, no other cities though)
> Decide to try chicken piccata since I make it pretty often
> served with linguini drowned in alfredo sauce
> Taste the sauce, no salt, barely any lemon, tastes like lemon scented olive oil
> Take a bite, tastes like salted chicken, nothing else, finished maybe 1/8 of it before leaving.
> mfw the chicken was covered in egg instead of dredged in flour.

>>5736156
This is the real reason

>>5735192
Lost 70 pounds

Panda Express is so fucking good. I at least acknowledge it's no where near authentic Chinese. But pricey though

>>5733602
This so much, the food used to be edible, now it's so gross and full of disappointment

>>5737136
I don't ever order something I frequently make at hem from a restaurant. It is aLWAYS a disappointment. The exception is burger joints and tacos (It's pretty easy to tell the quality of taco you're going to get from any given place)

I had to quit Panda Express a few years ago, there's just too many chinese places with better food that give you a lot more bang for your buck. At the chinese place near me I can get a 2 item combo with half rice/half chow mien, 5 FRESH fried shrimp, 2-4 spring rolls and a drink for <$10, and it's enough to feed two people with leftovers for midnight snacks.

>>5736879
Your innocence is charming.

>>5732826
Fuck Panda Express.

They've raised their prices two or three times in the last year I've been there. They've become more expensive than the actual Chinese restaurants in the area. I wouldn't mind the price so much if it wasn't for the fact that I like orange chicken and that sweetfire makes my dick go diamonds. This girl I used to have an accounting class in worked at the one by my house, she'd always give me extra stuff and chat with me about her day, she's gone now though.

To make it all worse, whenever I go in, the food is either dry as fuck or poorly sauced. It's over 9 bucks for a three item combo. I just buy lunch specials at the places nearby now. It's 4-6 bucks and I get way more food. I used to love those guys, I couldn't go to the mall without stopping to get some of this shit but they've burned me.

>>5737344
Man, I found this Chinese place that used to be inside a local mall until the mall closed down. They got their own building in the same area.

$5.50 gets you a three item combo, and it's fucking loaded, you get enough food to make 2-3 meals from it. They know me there and when I come in they take bets on what I'm going to order because I only order one of three things. Their BBQ chicken is to fucking die for. Their rice is shit but their chow mein is god tier.

Sadly I moved away from them.

>>5735367
>be you
>be a massive faggot
>eat a bag of dicks for breakfast

>>5734044
>you keep going back
The definition of insanity, blah blah blah

>>5732826
>Move back home to Oregon because California is too goddamn expensive
>Used to a certain standard of mexican food
>Especially fish tacos
>Figure it's Oregon, it's the west coast, it can't be that different
>Go to a place called La Herradura because everyone goes there and can't stop talking about it
>Order a fish fucking taco
>IT'S FUCKING FISHSTICKS
>IN A TACO
>FISH STICKS
>NOT BASA NOT TILAPIA NOT COD
>FISH FUCKING STICKS

AAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>5736371
The good food in Des Moines is actually good, but there just aren't enough non-plebs here to support decent everyday places. Tsing Tso, Ablerdos and Tasty Tacos are all expensive and massively overrated.

>>5737412
Lol.
You're ruined forever nigga

>>5736813
>soccer mom
>smoking MARIHUANA
u wot

>>5736156
I'm sick of you tumblrinas painting anything bad as "White people ..."
Blah blah blah white people are raciss cuz of ferguson
Blah blah blah white people are the reason people die in africa

>>5737761

Kek'd

>>5737761
>implying whites aren't the worst, least-cool people, responsible for all the world's problems

>"Cookout" burgers opens store in town
>takes a month before excitement dies down enough so I don't have to wait in line for an hour
>buy enormous quantities of food for under $10
>start going twice a week
>notice my scale trying to hide itself whenever it sees me

realized that I was turning into a porkuswine without even trying.

>house sitting for mother
>no place to buy junk food within 10 miles
>nearest place is a gas station

>have amazon prime

/ck/ what is your favorite sour/tart/tangy candy?

>>5732963
le edge :)

>>5737761
tbh, an aversion to "ethnic" foods (especially if they're spicy) is an antique middle-class thing. Who are the people hanging on to an antique middle class prejudice? Middle class folks living in the less cosmopolitan parts of the country. That group IS overwhelmingly white.

So as annoying as that stereotype might be, depending on where you live it could be spot on.

>>5737427
DSM here, too. There are definitely some places that I think have some potential.

Panda Express where you can be served asian food by non-Asians

No thanks. You get more authentic asian food at a fucking McDonald's