Panda Express

Passing thru en route to Phoenix. Turned out to be a perfect stop: light, healthy and delicious Chinese (chow mien was awesome), but the best part was hearing the communication between employees to each other as well as to the customers: respectful, appreciative, friendly. Great stop — We’ll definitely be back!

There was only 5 small pieces of meat on my meal, the chow mein was 20% noodles and 80% cabbage, and fried rice with corn instead of eggs? Really? I like this chain, but this specific one is horrible!

Nice variety of choices of Chinese food. Service is quick. My only complaint is the seating arrangement layout at this restaurant. Pretty to look at but not very functional. There is also drive-​thru for those taking it home.

Waited 18 minutes in the driver thru and they still got it wrong. Wow. Extremely poor service.

This morning I was in El Centro and was craving some Panda. I love panda, its one of my favorite fast food chains. My whole family loves it, but today was just not a good one. I went to Panda Express and pulled through to the drive through where the woman on the other end proceeds to tell me we don’t open until 10:00am. OK. Fine. Its 9:56 am, I’ll wait I say. Then she tells me we don’t and won’t have anything really made by 10:00am so I don’t know if you want to wait. Now forgive me, but what restaurant doesn’t have their shop together enough to have their food ready to be served at opening time? Just not a well organized shop if you ask me. Please get your acts together Panda. We are hungry at 10:00 not 10:30:)

Dirty tables, bad service, my food was flavorless and fried rice was cold! Pretty bad experience first time going there, haven’t visited since they first opened.

I am usually pretty satisfied with the service I receive from this place, but today not so much! We place our order via drive thru, get to the window pay and the guy hands me the bag containing our food, supposedly. Maybe it’s my fault for not looking inside and verifying our order is correct. But why should I, I should trust the people to have my order correct. Get all the way home to find out I’m missing something. My wife calls to speak to someone, but they are too busy to speak to her and ask if they can call us back. What kind of customer service is that! So you’ll gladly accept my money, but you won’t help me when you make a mistake? And you think by giving me an extra egg roll will make things better? Haha… no!

I’ve been to this location a few times since it opened, both inside and drive-​thru. It’s pretty small inside, but nicely decorated. The Orange Chicken was comparable to any other Panda Express I’ve been to, and the drive thru was a great idea. I *love* the China Mist passion fruit iced tea on a hot day. No complaints here!

The lines have gone down since the grand opening. Have been here a couple of times and probably wont go back. I knew that I wouldnt be getting restraunt quality chinese food from here but I feel the staff could make some adjustments to make the food better (i.e the rice was really dry), and more llke the San Diego and Yuma locations. This is a new place so maybe they just need time to get it together.

Panda express, who does not love Chinese food that has been evolved into American fast food standards the food is usually ready and they just paw what you want into a box. The lines usually move pretty fast if you find you find yourself at a busy hour due to everything being ready, prices are decent and they are generous with portions.
The food is usually pretty good most of the time and the staff is fast and moving you down the line and on your way out the door or to your table. Parking on the other hand can be a pain because the lot is tiny I usually park way in the back but I don’t mind walking IMO.

I’m happy that Panda Express finally made its way to the Imperial Valley. Its nice to be able to satisfy my mushroom chicken craving without having to go out of town. With that being said, I think this location has a little bit of tweaking to do to get things exactly right. With chain locations, you expect there to be a certain level of consistency: one menu item here should taste exactly the same as it would in a San Diego or Yuma location. That hasn’t quite been the case, but I have faith that with time, they’ll nail it. I still eat here once a week, at minimum.

I had an order or orange chicken and it HONESTLY tasted like sink water !! So did my husband’s! ! Super gross !