/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19876260]

I will never understand the hate for this establishment, the food is always fresh, portions are good, and the food is consistent. For me it's the string bean chicken

[Anonymous No.19876265]

ill karate chop your ass in half

[Anonymous No.19876266]

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[Anonymous No.19876267]

>>19876260
>For me it's the string bean chicken
>for me it's chicken thighs smothered in salt and sugar.
Hey, you do you. And it's not a muh authenticity shit thing, but PE is objectively gross.

[Anonymous No.19876268]

>>19876260
I just hate that they make you get a mountain of shitty bland fried rice or shitty bland noodles. Could eat beijing beef all day.

[Anonymous No.19876269]

>>19876260
Who hates panda express? The youtube videos of the Chinese grandmas and grandpas eating it show that they like it, the only ones that hate it are asian 2nd gen just playing it up for the cameras for street cred.

[Anonymous No.19876274]

>>19876267
Their broccoli beef is good too.

[Anonymous No.19876275]

I lived in NYC and it blew my mind that my small agency ordered this shit instead of authentic chinese. Probably cause it was cheaper. Cheap fucks.

[Anonymous No.19876280]

>>19876260
>portions are good
not anymore plus the price went up

[Anonymous No.19876281]

>>19876268
Ask for vegetables instead

[Anonymous No.19876284]

>>19876260
I can't do rice, genuinely autistic and the texture weirds me out. I've had better Chinese, sure, but Panda Express is the only place I can slap down $20 and get $20 worth of just meat.

[Anonymous No.19876311]

>>19876268
You can order it all of cart

[Anonymous No.19876327]

>>19876260
It's not bad it's just that where I live there's no shortage of better chinese/teriyaki. Love my general tso/pork teriyaki/gyoza combo. Also comes with a salad but I usually save it for later.

[Anonymous No.19877210]

The app is worth it, has saved me plenty

[Anonymous No.19877661]

>panda express is chinese food for people in the surburbs or ghetto black people

[Anonymous No.19878004]

>>19876260
>food is always fresh, portions are good, and the food is consistent
I have eaten here 3 different times, 3 different locations:
1. Rice was uncooked and crunchy
2. Rice was uncooked and crunchy, chicken was dry and bland
3. Didn't have any shit I wanted, whole thing was terrible

You are right - they are consistently terrible. I much rather go to my local chinese or korean takeout. They are consistently good. How do you even fuck up rice when you have a rice cooker in the back? It boggles the mind.

[Anonymous No.19878017]

>>19876269
I do, because I get consistently shit food from them. They take my money and give me shit food, that is all the reason I need to hate them. And it wasn't because of Lawry's Americans either, or just a one off bad place. ALL of them were bad for me. I have zero good experiences from PE. ZERO. And I have been very generous in giving them multiple tries.

[Anonymous No.19878024]

It's mediocre at best but half the time the rice is only half fried. If just as soon go to literally any other Asian food place

[Anonymous No.19878039]

it’s a very nice food to eat when you’re hungover and want to smash some greasy food

[Anonymous No.19878046]

It's not absolutely horrible, but I have a Chinese place nearby that does everything Panda Express does but better and cheaper, and the owner is based and asks if I want a free beer with my food if I dine inside.

[Anonymous No.19878138]

>>19876280
Price went up everywhere, though. It's still a good deal for a plate compared to similar options. It's also enough portion to last at least 2 meals if you dont compulsively pain-eat like a fatass like me. Also if you go right before close they'll give you like an extra pound of food for no reason.

[Anonymous No.19878202]

>>19876311
>all of cart

[Anonymous No.19878203]

>>19876327
That looks so good right now. I’m getting Chinese tonight

[Anonymous No.19878238]

>>19876260
>the food is always fresh
This is not a shred of truth in this statement. The food is prepared in massive batches meant to sit for hours under a heat lamp. I eat there a lot because there's no better chinese options near me and I would say its 30/70 chance I get food that has any freshness.
>portions are good
This is false as well, they have skimped down on meat portions so much sometimes I wonder if I order the broccoli beef one day it will just be a giant plate of broccoli and nothing else. As well as going from serving hot made in house sweet and sour sauce to pre portioning it in plastic cups to now just a shitty ketchup package shipped from god knows where and they will only give you a couple of them and half the time they are out because somehow sugar, water and red food dye are rare resources now.
>the food is consistent
Yeah consistently mediocre, everything has one taste, overwhelming sweetness or blandness. It's butchered takeout chinese worse than mcdonalds butchered the hamburger. Fuck Panda and fuck you for making this shit thread.

[Anonymous No.19879544]

>>19876260
It's genuinely better than most Chinese sit down restaurants

[Anonymous No.19879660]

Most of the Chinese restaurants around me charge about $8 to $9 for a full plate of really good food, plus soup or egg roll. Panda express charges the same or more for less food that doesn't taste as good. Don't hate Panda Express, just think its the McDonald's of Chinese food.

[Anonymous No.19880204]

>>19876311
anon....

[Anonymous No.19880238]

>>19876260
>I will never understand the hate for this establishment, the food is always fresh, portions are good, and the food is consistent. For me it's the string bean chicken
ehh, it's low tier, but so are a lot of authentic family chinese takeouts. The only thing I don't make better at home is probably mushroom egg foo young.

If I crave chinese, I am always better off doing my own stir fry beef (filet) or chicken (white meat), or twice cooked pork, with a doctored up sauce that contains fresh ginger, fresh citrus, and far more flavor. I also want chili crisp on my fluffy steamed jasmine rice to serve. Frozen steam in bag brown rice is fine.I I am alright using frozen egg rolls, pork buns, or pork dumplings for the appetizer, or just marinating some cucumbers in ponzu or seasoned vinegar, splash of fish sauce or toasted sesame oil. Egg drop soup is easy mode and fun to make.

[Anonymous No.19880568]

>>19876311

[Anonymous No.19880759]

ive lived in places where all mom n pop asian takeout joints were actual garbage, to where even panda express was bette simply because big logistics can make up for bottom tier laborers. even a pf changs wouldve been a godsend in these hellholes.
but it sounds like you have yet to encounter a place operated by people that are remotely competent and give a shit

[Anonymous No.19880777]

>>19876260
Last time I went the were halved little baby chicklets in the orange chicken. Like, I know what's in my food, but a little fried baby chicken wing sticking out from the side of the nugget is a bit off putting.

[Anonymous No.19880780]

>>19876260
It's good but you have to find a franchise that actually cooks it well. My previous chinky gf here from PRC on a student visa loves it, but my new chinky gf who was adopted from PRC by a white lady as a toddler hates it because "the chicken is too hard." I personally like Panda Express, but I've had bad experiences with it too. It just depends on who's cooking it.

[Anonymous No.19881337]

>>19876311
Shipped straight from the All of Garden

[Anonymous No.19881434]

>>19876260
>the food is always fresh, portions are good, and the food is consistent.
My experience has been the exact opposite. The meat was overly tenderized and flavorless, the sauce full of sugar and the portions were too small. My local Chinese restaurant, run by actual Chinese people, can make much better food, in larger portions, for the same price.

[Anonymous No.19881487]

>>19876311
amazing post

[Anonymous No.19881566]

>>19876260
Everyone I've ever seen working there looks fucking miserable, even moreso than the wagies at any McDicks I've been to.

[Anonymous No.19882260]

>>19876260
i don't hate it but im not going to pretend is that good. if someone said they hated it id understand. like all fast food really.
mein-pepper steak-orange chicken

[Anonymous No.19883517]

>portions are good
not in california. and only fresh at the right time. sometimes it's just sitting there.

[Anonymous No.19884474]

>>19883517
But when you're there at the right time panda is 10/10

[Anonymous No.19884520]

>>19881566
man, when i put myself in their shoes, like just try to visualize myself behind that counter doing that, I do get really really sad

[Anonymous No.19884534]

>>19884474
Given that you wantonly toss out a score like that to signify you like a restaurant tells me you are a tastelet and also probably a re-tard. 10/10 is a score which should be reserved for a perfect dining experience. If Panda Express is at the top of your scale, well, kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.19884540]

>>19876260
Every time I go there I get triple teriyaki chicken and fried rice, and I usually end up throwing half of the rice away

[Anonymous No.19884743]

>>19876269
Stop getting all your knowledge of the outside world from youtube clickbait. It's really fucking cringe.

[Anonymous No.19884776]

>>19876260
Man at Panda Garden eats, shoots, and leaves

[Anonymous No.19885425]

>>19876260
Half of the world still thinks that Chinese food will literally kill you

[Anonymous No.19885442]

>>19878238
>it's trash
but
>I eat there a lot
>best Chinese in the area

[Anonymous No.19885447]

>>19876260
I went there recently and the brown rice was undercooked and hard I was already home when I found out so I ate it anyways :|

[Anonymous No.19885486]

>>19885442
Sorry guess I should have made it simpler for the ESL's in the room.
I like chinese food, I eat panda because it's chinese and there are no better options closer than 25 minutes away and most of the time I don't feel like driving that far. I don't eat it because I love it I eat it because there are no better options.

[Anonymous No.19885517]

>>19884534
Objectively speaking I can give it a generous 7/10 if you come at the perfect time when somehow everything has just come out the wok fresh and you get that one cute girl working who gives you bigger portions because you were nice to her.
If you get the white write and bejing beef with a few fresh wontons it's not too bad. But this happens maybe once in every 50 visits so it's not something you can count on. 99% of the time your experience will be a 3 or 4 out of 10 with lukewarm grease sogged rice that has been under the heatlamp for 2 hours and you get a fat and surly mexican lady who gives you exactly 6 pieces of meat and scowls at you if you ask for teriyaki sauce. It really isn't worth taking the chance when you can go almost anywhere else and have a better experience for less money.

[Anonymous No.19885523]

>>19885517
*white rice

[Anonymous No.19885753]

It’s fine.

People larp like their average Chinese restaurant is some master of cooking but it’s just cheap ingredients and gutter oil without a calorie count.

Panda Express prepares the food within eyesight with fresh ingredients and the ones here are busy enough no food is out more than 30 m. Always some deal as well. Midwits say the same shit about chipotle vs their local taqueria.

> muh abuelitas burritos are made from the soul though, totally not 4 day old chicken sitting in a nasty fridge

[Anonymous No.19885763]

>>19876260
I wont forgive them for not adding the short ribs as a permanent menu item

[Anonymous No.19886637]

>>19876260
>the food is always fresh
Not true at all unless you go during restock time (dinner time). Orange chicken is restocked the most frequent but even it can get really dry depending on customers
Portions/price are okay. It is consistent because it all comes precooked in freeze dried bags (beyond the staleness from sitting on steamer tray for hours).