The food is really good and fresh every-time I come here. The staff is exceptional and will correct things if needed. read more

Who can eat a big chunk of onion, I have more onions than shrimp. Food taste awesome but less big chunks of onion, thank you read more

Panda Express - Food is amazing, but who is able to eat a big chunk of onion, I have more big pcs of onion that actually shrimp. - Chinese Near Me - Mankato, Minnesota

Rice is bland. Meat is too sweet. the ratio of meat to broccoli w/ beef n broccoli is 1 to 6

They seem to be too busy with drive through orders to have someone dedicated to help dine in customers.

Chicken is harder then hell this is the third time might have to search for some one new to go to -sweet fire chicken it all was very dried out and not fresh read more

my husband and I drove up to the drive through to order and my husband said "I want a plate with 2 orange chx." And the girl who took our order(trinity D) says "what do you want on your plate" in a rude tone, and my husband repeats himself and she said the same thing so I assumed she was trying to ask if he wanted rice or noodles so he said noodles. She then said very rude "anything else" and as we ordered every single thing she repeated that same thing about 4 times. We then went up to the window to get our food and the order was wrong, which is completely fine, but when we told her it was just supposed to be noodles instead of rice she said "well that's going to be five minutes" and we were like "thats ok" and she says "are you ok with that" and we said "yeah" again, and then she told us to pull around the front and wait for it. So we waited five minutes and then my husband went inside to see what the hold up was since all we needed fixed in the order was a cup of noodles instead of rice, 20 minutes went by and he came back outside upset and said they were ignoring him so he couldn't even talk to someone (at this point we still didn't get our food and we had paid for it already) so he got back in the car and we went back through the drive thru and sat there for awhile and nobody came to the window. Eventually another car was behind us so they had to come up to the window so then the girl said "they just tried to bring your order out but you weren't there" which never happened because we could see through the drive through to the parking lot. We were polite the whole time, just right off the bat when we ordered the girl was rude and When corrected on a mistake it was the biggest deal in the world apparently. read more

Beef was too sweet saw them carrying 100 bags of sugar inside for what? Rive wasn't too bad but i can make ts at the crib to be really honest. read more

WORST PANDA IN AMERICA. Me and my partner travel the country for work and trust me when I say we have had panda in almost EVERY place we stayed. If I could give a negative star I would. The orange chicken tasted weird almost like it's been left out. They only gave us SPOONS to eat our chicken and noddles. The cream cheese ragoons was the best tasting thing there and they were also crap. At this point they just need to throw the whole restaurant away. read more

Panda Express - Chinese Near Me - Mankato, Minnesota

Bianca and Jaylah were amazing. They took my order and completed it quickly even though it was during the Friday night dinner rush. Thank you for doing an excellent job! read more

Panda used to be pretty good but has lost all of its touch except the orange chicken. The fried rice isn't fried rice. It's veggies and eggs thrown in with white rice and it's either under cooked or overcooked. It tastes horrible. I'd like to see the company come back and make sure their employees know how to actually cook their food the right way. read more

Got here 45 Minutes after opening & they still didn't even have half the food items ready to go. Had to wait about 20 minutes to receive my order as they had to cook it as I was sitting there. Place was clean but as they had just opened less than a hour ago that was to be expected. The management here really need to get things in order as this will be the last time I ever visit this location. read more

This place is amazing! Great food- well cooked and fresh!! Had the teriyaki chicken and vegetables and loved every bite!

Absolutely the worst Panda Express in America. They should remove the "Express" part of the name and just call it Panda. Or maybe Leisurely Panda. Or Incompetent Panda. I've never seen such slow service at a "Fast food" restaurant. Most Pandas are so fast by the time you pull up to the window to pay for your food it's already on the plate and they're handing you the bag. This panda you will sit in the drive through for a minimum of 30 minutes. read more

At least an hour before the stated dine in time they lock the doors and only have the drive through open.

They said the fried rice was cool to order and would take around seven minutes to be ready. I got my food 20 minutes after I ordered.

I had not been to PE in a long while and was somewhat reluctant, but given I wasn't driving, PE it was. Ordered a 2 item lunch and the portions were DECENT!!! Well, my lunch was delicious and I couldn't finish it all. Nice and quick alternative. read more

Arrived at 7pm on Sunday 6/17 and they were out of many entrees. No drive thru, since An employee's car blocked the drive thru. I asked why and was told they were going to close early since they were short handed. No sweet and sour sauce for my egg rolls. The entire place was very dirty. Trash and food under and on most tables. Chunks of food (that was likely several day's old) was on the window ledge where we are. The drink station has soda splashed everywhere including the sticky floor. The windows were covered with a day's worth of smears and fingerprints. Both restrooms were filthy, and my wife said the women's restroom was out of paper towels so she couldn't wash her hands. Summary: if you can't staff this place with competent employees, take a wrecking ball to it. Absolutely awful dining experience. read more

This place has really gone to hell. The tables are never clean. The food isn't as good at is used to be. The Cho main was my favorite thing and now it's just awful. I tried the orange chicken as well and it was cold. this blonde girl with tattoos was being very rude. I would not recommend this place. read more

I might as well have stayed home and made dinner. absolute absurd wait times in the drive through. poor service.

Done giving this place a chance. Expect McDonald's type service often times my sauces or sides are left out. Just about every time I go they are out of the main items, such as noodles and orange chicken. Skip this place and check out China star down the road for some GOOD food and service which you will not find here. read more

they never have anything! make the food... niggas hungry bra. hell wrong w yall. 2nd time they had no food... got all the nasty shit no good stuff. read more

I came in to get my online order- first no one even knew it was there and while I was waiting, the girl working was super rude to pretty much everyone that came up to her to pay for their food or ask for something. All of the food was gross and the portions were awfully small. The girl also wasn't very nice to the rest of the staff, I felt bad for every one that she had to talk to. I'd rather not come back here. read more

Ordered a side of lo mein with my orange chicken but got a side of onions and very little noodle. read more

Panda Express - Supposed to be lo mein - Chinese Near Me - Mankato, Minnesota

Mankato Minnesota Panda Express is by far the worst. It's hardly ever open and when they are they treat their customers like crap. They literally turned away my money because I couldn't go threw the drive threw. Awful service, don't ever go to this location. read more

This location used to be great but the new staff seem to be too lazy to work. I understand that fast food business well but if you do not want to cook the food or even fill the ice machine, go work somewhere else. We waited for 20 minutes for our food which never even came to our vehicle through the drive through, I had to get down and wait 10 more minutes inside because they didn't even START my order yet! Anyway, they are not busy but they never have any food ready. This place should be replaced with a jack in the box or papa johns! read more

Shockingly awful restaurant. I gave them a second chance after a previous terrible experience. This evening they left me outside waiting for the rest of my drive through order for 30 minutes. Then when I finally went in to see what was going on, the staff had the audacity to be rude to me because they had no clue what was going on & because I didn't know what part of my order I was waiting on. I will NEVER step foot there again. Beyond ridiculous. Plenty of other restaurants to choose from. And I'll be going to them instead. read more

Men's room was out of order. Ice machine was out of ice. And one employee took up the only large booth for their break so my family was forced to cram into a table for 4 people. read more

The serving sizes are the smallest of any Panda I've been to. Ordered the Beijing beef and literally got 1 piece of beef. Lot of broccoli stems. The Orange chicken dish had maybe 5 pieces. They always forget sauce for the Teriyaki chicken. Gave this location a few tries and it's the same every time. Won't be back. read more

I don't typically leave reviews but this one is pretty deserving. I ordered through the drive-thru this afternoon around 1:30. When I placed my order, the girl who took it wasn't bad. She seemed pretty polite. When I ordered my fountain drinks she told me that there was no ice, I told her that was fine (I have purposely ordered drinks with no ice before, they're still usually pretty cold. Nope. This was lukewarm, like it had been sitting in a warm car all day). I ordered a kids meal with a bottle of apple juice to which she told me there would be an upcharge, again, didn't mind. When I got up to the window, the girl who had taken my order was immediately rude. I noticed on the receipt after I paid that she had gotten my order wrong, so when she handed me my food, I asked her about it. She said "Yeah that's what you ordered". Instead of apologizing and correcting the problem, she proceeded to become argumentative with me that I had ordered something other than what I know I did. I order the same thing every time, trust me, it definitely wasn't on my end. Then she basically demanded the wrong order back (which I wasn't planning on keeping anyways), slammed the window, then came back a few seconds later with the right order and gave me an overly-sweet sounding but obviously sarcastic "thank you!" Before once again slamming the window. In my opinion, if she's going to be working at a drive-thru window she should have better customer service skills. That alone makes me not want to return. I also noticed I was charged full price for the bottle of juice, so I was jipped out of the fountain drink that was supposed to come with the kids meal, but whatever. Anyways, now onto the actual food. My orange chicken was way too crispy and hard, tasted old. The noodles were dry. Again, pop was warm and gross, and the cream cheese rangoons were old and tasted like they had been cooked in old oil. Altogether this place was pretty awful. This is the first time I have tried Mankato's location and it will be the last. I won't be returning. Sioux Falls' is much better. If I want Panda Express from now on I will be going there instead, even if it is further of a drive for me. read more

After a bad experience a couple of months ago, I decide to give it another try. Got to the window, given my soda, no ice because the ice machine was broken. If I'd known that, I wouldn't have ordered. I get home with my lukewarm beverage, and find my rangoon burned beyond being even close to edible. The orange chicken was crunchy. White rice tasted like it had been boiled in old oil. Pepper chicken was horrific. Celery and onions tasted like old oil. I couldn't eat more than a bite of any of it. This was at 11:30am. They'd only been open for a half hour. Things should be fresh at that point, you'd think. Such a shame. When the Mankato site first opened, it was amazing. It was my go to. I won't be back. read more

This really deserves no star at all I am beyond upset. I love Panda Express. But this one in Mankato is aweful. Let me repeat. AWEFUL. I was on my lunch break today and the place had maybe like 3 customers inside and one other in the drive thru. I waited almost 10 mins just to order because they said they need a minute. Then I finally order and they said, "it'll be a 15 min wait". WHAT ur telling me u made me wait in this line just to get told to wait longer. I didn't have that kind of time and usually at panda they tell you when they said they need some time on some of the entrees. And they even sassed back at me saying "how was I supposed to know what u wanted". It's not about that. It's about telling someone before you even order that u don't have this item available. Common courtesy especially to someone in a rush. Never going here again. I am extremely disappointed in the service here and please if ur the management reading this! For the love of me, please do way better. A fast food joint should not be this bad. Especially when there aren't many customers read more

Good food, but the wait times are absurd. You should not have to wait 30 minutes just to order food in the drive through! Do yourself a favor and either order ahead online or just eat somewhere else. read more

Worst Panda Express location I've ever been to. It's rather new, so it could just be growing pains, but the staff are inexperienced and the drive thru is horrible. I ended up waiting for the truck ahead of me for what seemed like 10 minutes, and then when I came up they already had my food bagged up and ready to go. Except, I could tell they prepared my food while serving the truck, and it was cold and lackluster. I mean come on, really? The food wasn't even that good - I'd suggest going to Leean Chin if you're looking for some kind of chain-Chinese food. China Star is much better. read more

The food was good, but the employees treated us like crap. They werent using proper sanitary procedures. More than half didnt wear masks, I saw them touch the food and their face, and they didnt sound like they knew what they were doing at all. It is also a good thing I checked the food because they forgot to add one of my sides. When going back through they requested to see the bag and had 3 people look through to make sure we didnt have the rice. They also did not have gloves on while going through everything. This whole last process took about 10 minutes. Ive worked in multiple fast food restaurants myself, I know this is not acceptable. My overall statement, I probably wont be returning to this one. read more

I don't get it. How can people honestly give Panda express in Mankato only two stars? I'm giving five not because they are stupendous and out of this world, but for fast food they offer good selections. Steamed rice not fried. Too sweet at times, but a lot of good flavors. So, I got to say I look forward to getting panda express. They have really great staff, too. read more

The wait times are completely ridiculous! They never have everything-if it's not an entree they are out of then they don't have bottled soda and when they are out of bottled soda their fountain machine is out of order. Throw the whole Mankato, MN location away please!!!!! read more

So it's the kids favorite and I don't mind the food for essentially pre-made Chinese food. But what gets us every time is the poor service and extremely unkept dining area. It's like nobody on the staff seems to care. I'll go to other Panda Express restaurants but the one in Mankato I will find an alternative. read more

Shit customer service.. the chick taking my order interrupted and would not listen and made mistakes that I had to correct at the window with someone else even thou I had to repeat myself multiple times. read more

I used to love Panda Express. If I could give this zero stars I would. I recently went there and I didn't notice a piece of chicken was undercooked and I ended up with food poisoning and e-coli!! I had to go to the ER for fluids and meds. I will NEVER EVER go to panda express ever again. Watch out people. They told me the wait time was 5 minutes for it to cook and I got all my food within 2.5 minutes. Yes I should of asked about it but I trusted that it would be ok. I'm very saddened that this happened to me cuz I really loved the Beijing beef. But I will not RECCOMEND this place to anyone unless you are willing to risk getting sick like I did. It's like a Russian roulette. Seriously. Cook your food fully and stop rushing to get the food out food safety is extremely important!!! Ok my rant is over goodbye forever panda Express!!! read more

Got our order wrong and the bowls were 95% side and 5% orange chicken. One bowl wasn't even filled halfway