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    Panda Garden Buffet

    3.0 (36 reviews)
    ModerateChinese
    Closed 11:00 am - 2:30 pm, 4:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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    Summer H.

    Panda Garden is your standard Chinese buffet, with plenty to choose from. If you go eat at busy meal times, you'll have the best experience in terms of food freshness and service. Flavors are good and staff are prompt and courteous. But if you go a little later, most foods are over-cooked and dried out from sitting in the warmers too long. Also, they will often replenish by mixing the fresh food with the old.

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    2 years ago

    One of the best Chinese restaurants I've ever been too! Very good food very nice staff never have been to such a better buffet.

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    2 years ago

    As restaurants go their better than most. clean hot good tasting food. very good service

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    2 years ago

    The food was very good and there was plenty of it. And the sauce was good and not flooding the container!!!!!!

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    8 years ago

    Good food, good atomsphere. The employees are friendly & are the too make sure you have an excellent eating experience!!!

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    10 years ago

    Probably the best in town. Usually pretty fresh. Decent prices. Friendly staff.

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    11 years ago

    very good food there with only ten bucks at most. The waitress are nice and very helpful chinese girls. I like the salmon the best

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    13 years ago

    Very friendly. Large portion of Sesame Chicken. They weren't very busy at all. Overall good experience.

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    15 years ago

    in a small town like newton ,people dont have too many choices,the waiting line is always long at noon.but the food is great :)

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    Ask the Community - Panda Garden Buffet

    Can someone tell me how big this restaurant big? do you think they can have 250 people? and how's the food?

    They can seat approximately 70 people in the front area, 35 people in the middle area, and another 35 -40 in the separated area that is great for larger groups.

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    This was the first time here for my mom and I. Although they had signs up saying that due to being…read moreshort staffed, please order at the register, they must have been slow enough that a server did come to our table to take our order. We had several questions about the menu and she knew each item and was able to explain the ones we asked about. We were in a noodle mood and stuck with the basics. We started with an order of pork potstickers. They were pretty good and my mom really liked the dipping sauce they came with. It was good, but I prefer straight soy sauce - which the server brought us. We ordered Chicken Lo Mein, Pan-Fried Thick Rice Noodles with beef, and Pan-Fried Vermicelli with pork. Each dish had a good amount of meat which was great since each of the meats were the most tender pieces I have ever had from a Chinese/Tai/Asian place in Ames. Even the white meat chicken was so tender and not dry at all. Every piece of meat was so soft and flavorful! We cant' wait to go back and try some more adventurous dishes.

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