Sunday visit with our son and our KU/Lawrence go-to for “Chinese/Oriental” food was CLOSED. Looking at all the available options, this place had about as many reviews as the others. It’s usually a roll of the dice when trying to make an informed decision based on reviews. To be clear, we never review POSH dining spots - not our lane. So when it’s asking for atmosphere, this place looks as any other restaurant you are expecting serving this type of food - traditionally a take-out/delivery cuisine. But now what we all want to know - what about the food?? Good portions for the $ spent. Freshly cooked made it across from West Lawrence to son’s school apartment and it was as awesome as it looked, HOT & FRESH. Looking back, almost all the NEGATIVE reviews for this spot were 5 years old or older so don’t let them deter you from giving this place a visit. And your to go order comes inside a nicely designed marketing carry sack!! Happy eating!

I've ordered from here before and it's always been great but my delivery order tonight was definitely off. Sesame chicken was a weird color and tasted more like honey mustard. Crab rangoons were just plain cream cheese. This is very odd from my normal experience from this place. Not sure if they are having a supply issue or changed recipes. It was edible just not exactly normal. Staff is always nice though.

We always have a great lunch here. There is a large selection of main courses, both spicy and mild. We ate at 11:30 and all the food was hot and fresh. All of the dishes we had were very good. Although wait staff changes, the waitress/cashier there today was fantastic. She was quick, efficient, polite and kept all the tables cleared. This is one of the few Asian buffets I've eaten at that has an intentional, clear view of the kitchen. The fact that they show what most restaurants want to hide speaks well about them. We have always had a good experience and will be returning. I recommended everyone tries for themselves.

Great atmosphere, Polite, Friendly,Courteous staff. Clean wholesome place to eat! Would certainly recommend 👌 Your servant Ricky Jenkins Eved =Slave to the Kingdom of YAH seeker of the Derech ha Tsar/Narrow Way

I was hesitant on how to rate my experience. I’ve been eating here for as long as it’s been open. I eat Chinese only a couple times of year and I normally only order from this restaurant. I ordered vegetable spring rolls which were delicious. For my entree I ordered beef chowmein and it comes with a side of white or fried rice. The portions have shrunk down and are served in Tupperware. The rice comes in the traditional white box. I miss the days of all of it being served that way. The staff was nice and gave me 3 soy sauce packets, which you need to ask for otherwise you get 1 packet. Support local.

Here for work. Rough day was looking for a nice hot meal. I got burnt spring rolls, a super flat bottle of Sprite, and my combination platter has only two shrimp but tons of pork and beef then there was friedrice. Some people may find this to be ok. I, on the other hand, actually enjoy fried rice. I am highly disappointed as all the reviews I read gave me the impression that this was a great food choice. I wouldn't recommend it.

Outstanding customer service. We were greeted warmly, were not rushed, and felt invited. Justin was the cashier on duty and whatever his salary is needs to be increased. He was polite, friendly and went out of his way to give us great service. Highly recommend this location!!

Went in with my twin 9 year old daughters, husband, and 2 year old son. My kids had never eaten at Panda Express before so we asked if our daughters could sample a piece of orange chicken to make sure they liked it before getting them a whole bowl of it. We were told “sorry we don’t do free samples anymore”. Which okay fine. We sit down to eat, the literal next person after us, an older woman asks for a sample and they immediately let her sample whatever she wanted. Like what happened to no samples when my 9 year old daughters wanted to try? So insanely rude. Never coming here again.

You get a lot of food for the price, it's a good deal. Really like the cream cheese ragoons and the sweetfire chicken!

Hi, I have always been a huge fan of Panda Express until the day before yesterday when I ordered my regular in drive through and when I got back home while eating I found a big paper clip in their chicken entrees. That was a big scare and I am sure I will not be going back there anymore. Very disappointing as this was one of my favorite go to places that I visited regularly.

Decent food for a good price but I imagine dining in is better then the takeout. There was so much sauce in my amazing chicken that it leaked into the takeout bag and a little in my car on the drive. Good chicken though and a large portion with still crispy veggies, so that was nice. The fried pork wantons had barely any stuffing inside but they weren't greasy at all either so 50/50 if I'd get those again in the future. Good chicken eggroll!

We absolutely love this place. I would give him a 10 if I could.. Always friendly, food is always good. Even when he gets busy and we have to wait a little longer, we do, he is basically a man or two man show.. We don't care.. if I had to compare to Panda House, we like Budda Belly just a little more.. always fresh... Never disappointed..

Great place to eat if you like bland, old, and disappointing food. I reluctantly came to give Hyvee Chinese a second chance… the previous time I ordered sesame chicken and it was raw. This time around nothing raw… but it was so gross. I think Panda Express or the buffet at Great Wall in Elkhorn is a much better deal, at the very least, significantly less disappointing. Whoever throughly enjoys Chinese food from Hyvee may suffer from mental health issues or are used to nasty food. Never again.

Really liked the steamed pork Dumplings and good amount of general tso chicken in the order. Came with fried rice and a fortune cookie. Will definitely order again and try the lo mein options!

Atmosphere and food are on par with any other Chinese takeout place but they seem to refuse to specialize orders. I have ordered food for pickup several times and every time I make sure to specify that I want extra spicy food and every time the food has been so bland that adding black pepper makes it hotter- and this is while ordering a supposedly ‘spicy’ dish. If you want some middle-of-the-road Chinese food then you might be satisfied with this restaurant but if you want something more flavorful and seasoned I would try someplace else.

Ordered the orange chicken with white rice for lunch, along with a side order of 10 fried Dumplings. Holy potatoes- the food was hot, flavorful and the portions were huge! I ended up eating this for lunch 3 days in a row, which was awesome!

I purchased the triple delight meal. The chicken is not good. Seemed watery and just not appetizing. The beef is very good! The shrimp was good. The meal was the perfect amount for one person. I didn’t finish all of the rice and threw away all of the chicken and most of the mushrooms. The egg roll that came with the meal was delicious and we also ordered fried dumplings that were very good as well. The rice was alright so I think I may have to try their noodles and see if they are better. If I return I will have to be in the mood for broccoli beef because of the entire meal that was the best part.

Ordered twice, both times I ordered pickup for ~20 minutes later, food was made quick and ready to be picked up in 5 minutes (Could be a bonus, but 15 minutes before designated pickup time means cold food), asked for half lo mein and half fried rice. Got full fried rice and it was old, crunchy, and dry. I called 4 times to see if I could work something out and head baco, but none of the calls were answered. The food wasn't separated on the plate and looked rushed. I work fast food, and I understand if it's at a rush period, but no one was there. It's funny how they call it gourmet. I wish I had good things to say but this happened twice. Only redeeming factor was the taste of the sauce with the chicken, and the nice napkins.

IF I COULD GIVE ZERO STARS I SERIOUSLY WOULD!!!!!! I don’t know if they were prejudiced or racist or what but I have never had this at a panda before!! I eat at panda all the time and spent thousands of dollars here. The past two times I have not had a good experience. Customer service is EVERYTHING!! The first experience with the lady employee: I was there as a dasher picking up DoorDash orders as it’s what I do part time at night. She was rude, and she had no customer service skills and you can clearly tell she hated her job. I asked her while waiting for my dash order if they had shrimp. She said no. I get that. I thought that it was because they were cooking it. Then I decided after I dashed to get food for myself from there and came back. I told her I wanted to order and she’s like for yourself? Just condescending like, as if I can’t eat or afford it there. Then I asked about the shrimp again and she said “ no we have none I told you that.” In my head I was thinking well I didn’t know it was all night, I’m sorry jeez.” Side note: (I called a different location and asked if they had shrimp and the man was kind and explained they are all out and the shipment won’t be here til the following day…etc) A few days later I go back to give them a chance again. ( I LOVE PANDA!!!) this gentleman was just as rude. I got a three entree plate again. I got double orange chicken and honey walnut shrimp with noddles. I specifically asked him if I can get one serving of orange chicken on the plate, honey walnut shrimp and then in the other container I wanted the other portion of orange chicken. That was COMPLETELY NOT A THING!!!! He used the side box for my walnut shrimp and below is the picture. Everytime I’ve gone to panda, they always try to give the customer what they can because a 3 entree plate alone is over $13 bucks. This time he not only disregarded my request, he filled it without “filling it” I asked him can you please put a little more in there and he rebutted it by saying “‘no, you only get six shrimp pieces.” Even if this is true (which I have been given more every other time, it’s an entree side and it’s also extra money to get it because it’s premium) he was rude about it. I could have been okay with that if I didn’t feel like I didn’t matter and they didn’t want to make anymore food so they can go home since it was 830pm. All I know is I love panda, I love reviewing my honest opinion about a lot of places and this one just makes me so sad. I don’t know if I will ever go back to this location and given the reviews and people I know, I will spread the word for others to be on the look out. I will pay hundreds of dollars for mediocre food if I felt like whoever was servicing me cared!!!!!!!!

First time ive been here, i came a little after lunch time, the lady at the door was on her phone and shooed me to the dining room instead of saying hi or literally anything. The entire buffet was empty, and i mean empty (which i understand) but when I asked another employee if they were planning to refill anything she was so annoyed "yea, can't you see it's coming?" While the other half of the staff was on the other side of the restaurant eating themselves... She put my receipt on my table before I even got any food! I absolutely won't come back again.

Awful. The cream cheese in the crab ragoon isn't c ream cheese! Disgusting. The pork Egg Rolls were missing the pork. And the fried dumplings were far from fried. I didn't get any sweet and sour for the crab ragoon, no fish auce for the dumplings and I asked for extra hot muxtard for the egg rolls and received NONE! I ordered a shredded beef dish. That is absolutely not what I received. Bottom line...you spend $50 bucks on to go food for 2 people, I would expect it should be better than this. So disappointed.