Haven't been to a panda since I was a teenager and was shocked my husband suggested it for dinner, but I immediately said hell yeah! It's just as good as I remember and we were kind of wary to go since the ratings were so poor but they didn't diss the quality but closing early. It was around 6pm when we went and they were open and lively. There was a decent crowd dining in and people came for online pick up as well. We got bowls of original and hot orange chicken. Both so so good. And the guy who assisted us was very lively and offered a sample to try the new spicy/hot orange chicken but I can't handle too spicy and we bonded over that. The cashier was also very nice and bubbly. We'll be back! My camera didn't eat so no pics, sorry :) read more

Wow, appallingly bad reviews here at this Panda Express. I was out shopping in Lake St. Louis and ran in for a quick meal. I got the Beijing Beef with Fried Rice, Cream Cheese Wontons, and a Diet Coke. It was actually pretty good. The young girl at the counter was pleasant. I'm sure I'll be back! read more

Panda Express - Beijing Beef - Chinese Near Me - Lake Saint Louis, Missouri

Pro: food from the drive through is quick. Cons: small portions, overcooked at times and the customer service at the drive through was/is severely lacking (to the point of rude). This is not a one-off review. To my detriment, I've been here a handful of times and this has been my experience each and every time. What can I say, I must be a sadist. read more

Went to go through drive thru and they closed 15 minutes early. Rushed to get there and was turned away. Super frustrating

Closed before 9 pm on 6/29 because workers wanted to close early. Very poor service. Gave a lame excuse about technical difficulties

Mehhhhh. Food and atmosphere gets a 3 at best. Service was PHENOMENAL!! Very much missing real Chinese in Wentzville so I won't be a regular, but the kind service made up a lot for the mediocre foodies. read more

I don't know what's the problem in this area, but it seems like the whole fast food scene is horrible. But this one takes the cake. They are slow, they never have what you want (teriyaki chicken is our go to), and the service is horrible. The bathrooms are not clean, and I don't know how they stay in business. We were out running some errands, and stopped here. We ordered the teriyaki chicken bowl with super greens, oranges chicken with lo mein, but they were out of teriyaki chicken. So we got their beef and vegetables. The orange chicken was old, and the give us 3 pieces of beef. We looked for more and only found 3. I do not recommend at all. read more

Stopped by this one in lake St. Louis when we regularly go to Wentzville. We did not go in and used the drive theu. Order double serving of orange chicken and rice. The serving were skeet ( unless other locations just hook it up) and looked older like the sauce had absorbed into the meat. I was starving and started to scarf it down. After a few bites I bit into a bone. Not a tiny bone either it was a pretty big one with the marrow inside still. Kinda ruins ur meal. Emailed corporate weeks ago and a generic email back and attacked pics to that and never a reply. Sent a follow up email back after 2 weeks and no reply and have yet to hear back. read more

Panda Express - Orange chicken - Chinese Near Me - Lake Saint Louis, Missouri

Decided to give this location a try for the 7th time and yet again I was disappointed. Went on 5/10 around 3:30pm. The food was cold and tasted as if it had set under a heat lamp all day. The Orange Chicken was soggy and the Chow Mein was cold and dry. It was even discolored. Possibly overcooked or set there to long and shouldn't have been served. I understand places are understaffed at the moment, but as paying customers we are not looking for bad quality food, especially if we are dedicated to wait in line since the lobby is close. If we are committed to waiting, then the food quality definitely should be a lot better. I don't plan to go back to this location. read more

Panda Express - Chinese Near Me - Lake Saint Louis, Missouri

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Lobby remains closed and after work (6:20 pm) traffic was heavy in the drive thru. Line moved pretty slow, it took us over thirty minutes to get to the window. They were making fresh orange chicken so we agreed to wait a little longer. Workers were friendly (maybe just understaffed like many other businesses) and did the best they could to get us fresh food! The food was good too. read more

Panda Express - Orange chicken bowl with fried rice - Chinese Near Me - Lake Saint Louis, Missouri

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Ordered food and it was so poorly prepared or maybe just very old. The broccoli looked like it was rotten it was so fried so I returned the order. The manager had to make a phone call to get approval from the owner and they do not return tax paid. I have a video of the manager explaining they only return the list price of the meal they do not return the tax you paid. This place is a fraud, scam business that serves crap food. Highly recommend the health department take a look as well. Horrible location for panda. Contacted corporate. They did nothing. This company is literally defrauding their customers and stealing taxes paid when items are returned. They should be investigated. Total garbage company and horrible location. Eat at your own risk read more

Terrible food and terrible service. I ordered two plates of double orange chicken, one with fried rice and one with chow mien. All the orange chicken tasted like burnt charcoal. I called twice and no answer. I called the next day and he said he'd replace it. I get lots of attitude from the girl at the window and attitude from the manager. In the replacement order the chow mien looks like they chopped it up with scissors into tiny little pieces. read more

Food was stale, old, spoiled and not at all freshly cooked. Father got teriyaki bowl with chow mein, he got sick and had diarrhea directly after eating it. We have given this establishment a couple different tries over many months. I convinced my Dad to give it another try this evening and it was horrible. In his words it was garbage. I guess a true testament is very rarely see a lot of people in the drive through or dining inside. read more

Just ate the most incredible, exquisite, sublime, life altering orange chicken and now all I can do is pray next time I visit it has the same taste. I feel as if I've climaxed. This moment is in comparison to the first time I smoked nicotine. read more

Big Sis and I went August 28 after her doctor appointment on Mexico Road. She broke her shoulder July 12, cannot drive for eight weeks, so I was the DD. Coming back from said appointment, we had lunch, although I'm not quite sure this was a direct route back to her house but she selected it, so that's where we went. I haven't been to a Panda Express since April 2013. The menu's different. Go figure. And I needed a lesson. What is a bowl. What is a plate. What is a super plate. You pick your vessel first. Then you select what you want on it. Dang, these fast-food joints aren't so fast food anymore. It's like the Taco Bell menu. You used to get a burrito and a taco. DONE! Now, all these places have soooooo many choices, I need an hour to figure out what I want -- while standing in line. We let a number of people pass us in the line, because of my befuddleness. You go down a cafeteria-style line, tell the servers what you want, and they create the meal you've ordered. I'm sure most people know how this works. Don't mock me. This is new to me. At the end of the line, your food is ready on a tray, and you pay. You may opt to add a beverage. I got a broccoli beef bowl. For the side, I got vegetables. Diet Coke for beverage. Big Sis got a mushroom chicken bowl. I can't remember her side. Iced tea was her beverage. The line servers were incredibly gracious and patient, and served up plentiful food -- large servings, IMO. The woman at the register was lovely. We got our desired beverages, snagged a booth. My broccoli beef bowl with vegetables was absolutely incredibly wonderful tasting!! Holy cow!! I put a packet of soy sauce on the whole shebang. It was delightful. And I took some soy sauce packets home. The broccoli was tender-crisp, the beef was in little tender flavorful strips. The additional vegetables worked incredibly well with this dish. I went back to the cashier to get to-go vessels. And then went again for bags. She was so gracious and lovely. I got two meals. Big Sis did, too. read more

Drive thru took over 30minutes. Either poor management or bad employees...idk but there was zero sense of urgency in the kitchen and no one including the manager seemed to care to try to improve the work flow. Seems to be a constant issue at this Panda read more

I dined in and she forgot my shrimp. Told me she was going to bring it to my table but halfway through my food still no shrimp. Finished my food still no shrimp. Asked about it and she said she forgot. I understand if it's busy then it's OKAY we are all humans we forget things but HONESTLY there was only 2 people inside like how can you not remember 1 ORDER? Whatever I got over it, was about to write a long bad review but she gave me extra shrimp so 3 stars go to you. TIPS: GO DRIVE THRU IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR SHRIMP FORGOTTEN. read more

"Not good" hardly describes my disappointment. Dine-in not offered at this time. The girl taking the order was talking so fast that I was unable to understand her. I politely said so, but she made no effort to speak more clearly. I ordered two soft drinks and three orders of the cheese Rangoon. The Coke and Dr. Pepper had carbonation but no flavor. The cheese Rangoon were all over cooked to the point of unappetizing (I'm being nice, here) and one of them had literally no cheese at all. Two of us but only one fortune cookie. Ummm... ? I would have gone back to complain but the line of 12-plus cars was a no-go. read more

Panda Express - The entire order looked like this. Unpalatable but a hungry teenager was in the car with me and he was starving. - Chinese Near Me - Lake Saint Louis, Missouri

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The first step into the restaurant it was busy and clean. They took my order right away. I got a plate which includes choice of rice or chow mein or both and two entrées. I got my order to go. I chose both rice and chow mein; first I had a girl but once I stepped forward some guy took over and I told him what I wanted. He made me feel so rushed. Like they wouldn't even give me time to look at all the choices. It's not like I had anyone else after me. Gosh. Anyways I ended up adding on an order of egg rolls too. My total came out to $11 if you round up. I got home and open it up. They gave me two bites of rice and some noodles. I know I'm not a big eater but what the hell. Half a piece of an already small piece of chicken and four pieces of some Shanghai steak thing. If I wanted a kids size dinner I would of order a damn happy meal. For sure never recommending this location to anyone or returning. read more

Panda Express - Worst servings ever - Chinese Near Me - Lake Saint Louis, Missouri

I wanna know who put the damn rubber in their chicken. When I take bits and pieces out of that so called chicken I thought their was pebbles in the damn chicken. The sauce is pretty good not going to lie but something up with the cookies too. There harder than the damn moldy concrete outside of my house. I had a theory that the chocolate chips were rabbit pellets but lucky I tested them and their chocolate. Anyway Merry Christmas! read more

I recently gave this location another try and it's bad beyond belief. The orange chicken barely had flavor or sauce. It tasted like it was rubbery and dry. The fried rice was undercooked so portions of it were like chewing on pebbles. After I ate it, I was incredibly sick a few hours later. It was bad 5 years ago and now has only gotten worse. It seems limited to this location, so I'd advise you to try a different Panda. read more

This restaurant is a hit or miss every-single-time. More recently it has consistently delivered misses. 9/10 times there is a 5-10 minute wait for AT LEAST one of the entrees. 50/50 chance you will receive lackluster food and/or small serving sizes. Today, I received a total of 5 pieces of what looked like popcorn chicken in my plate of "sweet fire chicken breast." In addition, everything was mushy including the vegetables, beef, and chow mein. I will not be back again. I'm tired of taking a gamble with this restaurant. read more

Panda Express - "Sweet fire chicken breast, broccoli beef, and chow mein." - Chinese Near Me - Lake Saint Louis, Missouri

2 total cars in the drive thru and it took 25 minutes to make it to the window. Might need to rethink this place as being fast food. I also had order Beijing beef and shrimp. Ended up with orange chicken and looks like a half eaten portion of noodles. #qualitycheck read more

Panda Express - Chinese Near Me - Lake Saint Louis, Missouri

Here's the deal: Panda is ok when "in a pinch" for some Chinese-like food. Some of it is pretty good, although the sauces are likely from a bottle. But I've always found the occasional issue with freshness, especially with mushrooms and sometimes other veggies. Here I got the Mushroom Chicken and the Pacific Chili Shrimp with Chow Mein. Typically they will give you plenty of whatever side you order, but each "entree" is about one spoonful and looks like a paltry amount. As a matter of fact, the plates or takeout containers are designed to have a main dish in the center and two smaller sides; Panda does this backwards and puts the side in the "entree" position and the tiny entrees in the "sides". It's kind of ridiculous. And cheap. Most people avoid the issues (unknowingly) simply by getting the default dish, Orange Chicken, which, while actually chicken, over-breaded and over-sweetened, has zero orange flavor. While they are good at building new locations, having a decent dining room, and being fairly consistent in dishes from location to location, they are lackluster in food quality and value. read more

Panda Express - Pacific Chili Shrimp, Mushroom Chicken and Chow Mein. Notice the mushrooms! This is what mushrooms look like when they're not fresh! - Chinese Near Me - Lake Saint Louis, Missouri

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This store is disorganized. When you place an order for pickup at a designated time, you consistently have to wait an additional 15 minutes+ because the manager prioritizes customers in line who have yet to order over those who have already paid and whose money they already have. Not the best strategy to encourage repeat business. read more

I just worked a 13 hour day all I wanted to do was relax and eat my meal I picked up at Panda Express. I order a plate. Chow menu, chicken green bean and orange chicken. I should have said HOLD the long hair in my food. Actually 2 long hairs. Well than went to the trash real quick. Disgusting read more

The service this panda delivers is pretty good, but they need to improve on having different foods ready for their customers. EVERY TIME I go to the Lake Saint Louis store they never have my first option available. Then I try something else. STILL NOT AVAILABLE. Finally I just settle for Broccoli Beef and Orange Chicken plate. Tonight (4/15/19) and I get orange Chicken and broccoli. Maybe this place should call Wendy's because, WHERES THE BEEF?? I've been disappointed too many times by this Panda. I won't be going back anytime soon. read more

Panda Express - Broccoli and WHERE'S THE BEEF? - Chinese Near Me - Lake Saint Louis, Missouri

If you're looking for fairly quick Asian food, most likely actually prepared by a pimply kid named Trevor, then this is good place to go in a pinch. On one particular visit I waited about 15 minutes in the drive through line for an order of their popular Orange Chicken. After I received my order and drove away I noticed that they didn't give me any utensils. I drove back to the restaurant and noticed the sign on the door said the lobby was closed. I banged on the door and then another window, but if anyone heard me they just ignored me. I personally can't eat rice and sauced chicken with my hands, so I decided to drive to another fast food restaurant to grab some utensils since the line at Panda Express was super long. I ended up going to 3 more fast food places because every one of them was drive through only (I'm assuming because of Covid and/or a labor shortage). Twenty minutes later a nice man at Dierbergs gave me a fork. As usual, the chicken needed more sauce, but at that point I was starving so 5 packets of soy sauce filled the void. The one positive part of this experience was that the plastic container kept the food pretty warm during the debacle. read more

Although they were super busy, their customer service was phenomenal! The employees were very nice while working under pressure.

Once again we went to this restaurant and the dining room was closed, this time "repairs ". We got in the drive thru and waited and waited as it very slowly moved forward. They were " out of the chicken teriyaki " and when we got home found our bowls 2/3 full and the soy sauce that we requested not in the bag. This is by far the poorest run Panda Express that we have ever been to. read more

New fav......sweetfire chicken with fried rice mmmmmm. There is nothing like tasty Chinese food after a long day shopping. read more

Panda Express - Chinese Near Me - Lake Saint Louis, Missouri

This is an absolute joke. I ordered it on DoorDash to be picked up and now their vestibule is closed and you have to wait in the mile long drive-through to pick up your online order. I would have been better off having it delivered by DoorDash. I will never go to panda express in Lake St. Louis ever again. Not to mention when I banged on the door a team member answered the door but they would not give me my order and told me I had to wait in the drive-through line. This is a joke. read more

I can't recall the last time I've been here and the food isn't cold or skimped. Friendly workers, but cold & underwhelming portion sizes

Nah, I went here, because I had a couple bad experiences at the wentzville location. I used ro love Panama express. This is just as bad. The broccoli was hard, like almost raw. There were about 2 pieces of slimy beef. The rice was hard also, but plenty of that. I think I've given up on them. read more

This location has been terrible since before COVID happened. The past months at this location have been horrendous and down right awful. When you go you have to go through the drive thru since the inside isn't open. When you go through the drive through lines take forever and they never have orange chicken or teriyaki chicken and today they didn't have fried rice. How do they not have any of their main foods at 4-5 pm? This place is god awful. read more

Kung Pow Chicken w/ Chow Mien - awesome! Hit the spot. Service - terrible! I was never once greeted. Was able to walk the entire bar to see what they had, with multiple employees looking at me, before someone walked over and said "what can I get you". Felt like I was more of a burden for being there when literally there was one other table of two people inside. Likely won't revisit this location anytime soon. read more

They gave me 8 pieces of orange chicken in my bowl and proceeded to tell me the normal amount was 5 pieces. For orange chicken one serving size is 18 pieces. They are just lazy and didn't want to make more chicken !! last time coming here read more

Absolutely terrible. Paid $8 for each bowl and each literally had 3 tiny tiny pieces of chicken in them. Bullshit. We waited 25 minutes in the drive thru because the lobby is STILL closed, all for them to be out of orange chicken, beef and broccoli and it would be a 20 minute wait for fried rice. Gave us one silverware and one broken fortune cookie for 2 people. Panda Express is terrible and is not worth the money or the time. I would have gave it a 0 star if I could have. read more

This place doesn't take your order till they give the person if front of you there food to booster their number for speed. Which causes the line to back up into the enter and exit lanes with no access in or out at times. It's like bumper cars out their. Someone from corporate needs to sit in the parking lot next door and watch this circus. And of course they give me my food without sauce like some careless workers. Shouldn't have to ask for sauce when ordering teriyaki chicken, I ask for 3 sauces and the idiots give me soy sauce... Smh get it together read more

stop telling customers 15-20 minutes only for them to have to wait over an hour... got here at 6:49 pm and was told it would be 20 minutes and it is now 7:49pm. we would've left if we hadn't already paid. just be honest with customers. read more