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    Happy Panda

    3.5 (101 reviews)
    InexpensiveChinese
    Open 10:30 am - 8:30 pm

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    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    Point point
    Mark L.

    Solid point point Chinese food in Oxnard. I'll go here when I want something more authentic that Panda Express. And of course cheaper too. Here's some of my fav dishes here: - chow mein is great!! - orange chicken is good. Probably more traditional style than Panda Express...but we know Panda Express is not Chinese haha. - my wife loves the soups. She's tried the egg flower soup and sweet and sour soup. - dim sum dishes are great!! Love that there's an option for dim sum Only thing about this place is that dim sum is made fresh, which means you have to wait. Waiting can be a little long so if you are looking for truly fast Chinese food, avoid ordering dim sum. The point point section is good enough. But again, great alternative to Panda Express. I'll be coming back here.

    Shrimp
    Rex C.

    I was just here for Dimsum, I was driving around looking for a place to eat and boom I found this place. Maybe maybe this is the only place in ventura that sells dimsum... in LA 4 piece is around 4.50 to 6 but here it's 7.50 . I ordered pork shumai and shrimp dumpling ... so the shrimp have 2 small shrimp and some kind of filler. It's an okay place if your desperate..service is good.. food is good.. Im not going to lower the star cause of the price and quality of the dumpling cause I was craving for it.

    Always a beauty to see these baby dumplings!
    Crystal L.

    Just picked up an order of noodz and I made orange chicken, white rice, and gyoza at home. The noodz taste a bit different. The color is different than what I've seen on reviews. However, the BEST noodles!

    BBQ Pork Fried Rice
    Bethanny L.

    Made an online order for pickup on Grubhub, order was ready upon arrival. Food was very hot and tasty. The portion of the BBQ Pork Fried Rice was enough for two, and for only $10!

    Hair, pubes, lashes? ! Disgusting

    Place use to be decent, it was my go to now the past 3 times food is gross! Hair in the chow main, charged me extra $5.99 for old uncooked pork. I don't mind paying for good food, I asked the lady at front that I'd like a refund and she said no "you get what you get" never again! Don't recommend at all !!

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    Felipe E.

    If you want good food to eat. I highly recommend this place. Also they offer takeout or delivery. I was here yesterday and had to come back again.

    False lunch special

    I grew up in LA so I definitely expected better Chinese fast food. This place has a lunch special advertised on their front window but it's only served when they decide, nickel & dime for everything & wait time for the dim sum is 50 minutes! Won't ever come back to this place. I'll stick to China Kitchen in Ventura for good Chinese.

    Happy Panda has Dim Sum now !!!!  They added more things to menu too ,give them a try :)

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    12 years ago

    Solid place to eat, better than the chain Chinese fast food. I come once a week for the BBQ pork.

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    16 years ago

    Food is only OK, but the Hot & Sour and Egg Flour soups are AMAZING!!

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    11 years ago

    After these new owners took over this place i got to say is the best Chinese food place in town

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    10 years ago

    The chow mein is I'm a vegetarian so they gave a full box of noodles ... THANK YOU! I will be coming back!

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    15 years ago

    i used to come here all the time when i was preggo.. its really good to be a fast Chinese restaurant ..

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    11 years ago

    it's good for a fast food restaurant, that's if you're in a hurry n hungry n like Chinese Food!

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    10 years ago

    I walked in here like a hungry starving bear and walked out like a Happy Panda.

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    With the cyclospora in mind, Chinese food seems like the safest bet. This place feels like a hole…read morein the wall type of restaurant. There were a couple couples that look like they're on dates. Service is really good here. And we ordered all the food we wanted to try. It seems like they tried to limit the chances of the cyclospora parasite since no one has a definite source yet (Mongolian beef usually has raw green onions but they subbed wok fired yellow onions). But some stuff they kept the cilantro and green onions (bc they were cold dishes) The pan fried dumpling would have been good if it didn't have so much Ginger.. I'm not too into Ginger but the dumpling was nice because it had the juice inside of it and the texture was nice The refreshing woodear is a cold dish that has a chewy/crunchy texture. The soy sauce/vinegar flavor makes it refreshing when the other foods get heavy. Spicy beef slices were not that bad, but I prefer more of the spicy szechuan flavor (numbing/tingly feeling). The cilantro and green onions also provided good flavor The beef and onion pancake reminded me of mushu beef, it had the same wrap, hoision sauce flavor with meat and veggies-green onions. It also had good amount of meat Hunan beef was ok but wife enjoyed it. Wife's cooking prepared me for the peppers...is it a jalapeno or a green pepper...Russian roulette if you can't handle spicy. The Mongolian beef had reg onions instead of the green onions. Lots of onions..but I can't be mad bc the onions had the wok fire flavor, which I enjoy and not many places do it. The spicy eggplant with hot garlic sauce had lots of woodears, the eggplant was a little more on the sweet side, and the eggplant had a little bit of a crispyness to it. The salt and pepper shrimp almost reminded me of fried cake batter. It had some sweetness to it so it confused me cuz I was expecting something savory. At the end of the meal we had our fortune cookie, which seemed like it was more of an ad than a fortune.. sneaky Fortune Cookie company. Overall this place was pretty good and worth trying, especially since they have great service

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    Our server, Eric, made the whole night. His recommendations were spot on, and he checked on us…read moreconstantly without ever hovering. Service like that is rare. The food was just as good. We ordered the honey walnut shrimp, shumai, pork dumplings, soup dumplings, and Szechuan wontons, and every single dish was phenomenal. We cleaned our plates completely. The only thing we took home was the leftover sauce from the Szechuan wontons, and we're not mad about it. We'll definitely be back. Ask for Eric if you can!

    My go-to has always been Lee's in mid town, but moved to the East end so placed an order to go on a…read moreWednesday at about 4pm. 2 mid priced dinners plus an order of bbq pork rice. I hate to leave a bad review because I know restaurants are struggling like all of us, but with the price of everything these days, this almost $80 meal for 2 was going to be a treat. Choose wisely where you spend your hard earned $ these days. The soup choice was incorrect, the paper wrap chicken was ok but the 2 fried shrimp and egg rolls were bar b doll sized! Included fried rice had nothing but brown color. Our 3 flavor chow mein was greasy but dry?, gummy and mostly flavorless, lacked any discernible vegetables and had just a small amount of meat. Craziest of all, the sweet and sour chicken came as 2 flavorless sliced, battered and fried chicken cutlets and a container of a small amount of basically raw veggies in what tasted like a cornstarch slurry with ketchup and a bit of pineapple juice added. My Sis called the restaurant and they offered to comp an item with next order, but with the amount of restaurants in Ventura that go above and beyond on a consistent basis, there won't be one. We both have spent some time in food service so this almost double hurt knowing that we would've been a lot happier with a big order of Panda Express!!

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    4.5(396 reviews)
    2.4 miPort Hueneme
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    Was driving by on our way to some other restaurant when my partner insisted we pull in. From the…read moreparking lot we could see only one table with a two people, but a large, happy looking, family was exiting with arm fulls of to go bags so we decided to chance it, my partner especially excited for hot pot. We let the group pass us and entered the restaurant. We were promptly seated at a corner table and given menus. It did take a bit for the server to come back to take our order, but we did realize we came in 1/2 hour before closing, so we eased off a bit. My partner order the hot pot and was very happy with his choice. The server came back with a hot plate and instructed us how to cook the meat. I was a bit apprehensive about having to cook my own food, but the fragrant smell as it cooked changed my mind. The broth was flavorful and the veg and meat were tender as they soaked up the soupy goodness. I also ordered the boa buns and the pillowy texture, mixed with the soft pork and crunchy cucumber and carrots made my belly sing. We slurped up our food and cleared out as quickly as we could. I hate being that person that lingers at closing time. What I do regret is that I did not take more time at their counter as we exited because it was full of snacks and curios that I love. Next time for sure!

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