Panda One on Oracle has become our Christmas Eve tradition, and honestly, I can't imagine doing it any other way. There's something about it that reminds me so much of New England-style Chinese food, which is hard to come by out here and brings back a lot of memories for us. We each ordered the dinner plates that come with rice and two sides. Our go-to side is always the boneless spare ribs -- we all agree they're the best. For mains, we ordered General Tso's chicken (we asked for mild, but next time I'd probably go medium for a little more kick), orange chicken (total crowd favorite), and chicken and broccoli, which was simple and really well done. Everything was hot, fresh, and exactly what we wanted on Christmas Eve. It's comfort food for our family, and we'll definitely keep coming back year after year. read more

Panda One - General Tso's dinner special - Chinese Near Me - Tucson, Arizona

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It's a classic American Chinese foods and serving typical fried rice, lo mein n chow mein plus all other liked Kung Po chicken dishes!!! I've ordered a chicken broccoli fried rice with egg rolls... lunch specials... tasty and good enough delicious... Services was great and right on... the environment looks a little older style Chinese restaurant.... read more

Panda One - Chinese Near Me - Tucson, Arizona

Panda One is my favorite Asian cuisine restaurant here in Tucson. It is EXACTLY like what I grew up with back in Boston! Tonight, I ordered at 9:28 PM, and then found out that they close at 9:30. Spending over 20 years in the restaurant industry, I know now what I did. Our food was made and delivered in less than 20 minutes. Everything was delicious, even their spit! Lol. I'm very sorry, and thank you very much! read more

I had an early dinner here two days ago. I had Scallops in Garlic Sauce with Vegetable Fried Rice, a spring roll and a chicken wing ($15.95 for all of it). The place looks pretty shabby on the exterior and not much better inside, but service was friendly and professional. The main dish came with many small bay scallops, not the larger sea scallops. All of the food was OK but nothing special. I wouldn't go out of my way to eat here, but it's fine if you're in the neighborhood. read more

Ordered delivery yesterday. Food arrived hot and was very very good. I will definitely order from you again. I highly recommend this place. read more

Don't be fooled by the look of the restaurant, it's one of the best Chinese food restaurants I've found in Tucson. The prices are very friendly too! Highly recommend!! read more

Panda One - Szechuan chicken (extra sipicy) - Chinese Near Me - Tucson, Arizona

Very good always a nice for a group to go to And very friendly will go again Thank you your service read more

Delicious pork fried rice. They do not do it like this anymore!! And the fried fish tarter sauce. Splendi!

Going to write this quick and hot just like the food and service ; For years i been scared to try this place not going to lie , It looks scary and since we being honest just sketchy but gosh damnit this place is good as hell , Im a biiiig fried rice guy and this fried rice was good , hot , and well portioned , paid 10$ for a box of house fried rice and i want more ! Super good , everything was fresh. I been not liking shrimp to much lately but this shrimp was really good . The pork was nice and a little crispy , chicken cuts were big and juicy . Service was fast and friendly I would so go back and will do soon . I am to try some pork dumplings next , read more

Panda One - Side of building where homeless pee - Chinese Near Me - Tucson, Arizona

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I really Hate to do this review with only two stars because I've ordered from Panda One Delivery many many times. The delivery service is excellent. This past Sunday I received the worst delivery order of my business with Panda One. It was a Tofu dish with extra vegetables. My favorite and they always do a good job. The Tofu was either old or over cooked. It was like trying to chew rubber. Very small amount of vegetables, which I ordered extra. No pineapple in the mixture of sweet and sour sauce. So Disappointing!! I don't understand what happened to their cooking skills? I would suggest a new cook because all the dishes in the past were so Delicious. . I will order again in hopes it improves like it was before. read more

I always get great service from here and today was no different. Excellent delivery time, a lot of food and friendly customer service. The orders are always correct, so this restaurant is my favorite asian food place! Mary 9/17/24 read more

Food was great. Outside and location was sketchy but inside, everything was clean, staff friendly and food delicious!! Don't pass this one up some of the best Chinese I have found in Tucson. read more

Great food- large portions and very friendly owners and staff. Highly recommended! The bad reviews have to be from the competitors because every person I've told about this little gem loved it read more

Panda One - a plate of rice and vegetables - Chinese Near Me - Tucson, Arizona

So this used to be a fast casual Japanese restaurant but I can't remember the name. Now it's an Americanized Chinese place that serves some Japanese dishes like sushi and 1 Thai entree( pad thai hand written on the menu). The decor is not exactly inviting. But it's better than some other restaurants. Very dated appearance with unusual touches like window coverings with odd phrases and very stereotypical bamboo plant and lucky cat figurine. The staff were all Chinese when I went so it might be family run. The service was reasonable although not that attentive even though it was empty. They seem to do decent take out business. First there was a bowl of fried crispy noodles with sweet and sour "plum" sauce. However these were the worst Chinese fried noodles I have ever had and I only ate one. I tried the pu pu platter since this is something I ate back in the 70's and 80's as a kid. It was much better from my childhood. This version was not served in the kitschy wooden server with flaming crystals and skewers. It was also not as tasty and somewhat disappointing. The beef skewers were new to me, as well as fried shrimp. I had the Happy Family for my entree and it was actually pretty good but not enough to offset the other food. My son was with me and had beef with oyster sauce and he liked it. Overall I don't recommend this place as it is. The food was not the worst I have had but there are many better Chinese restaurants. Even Panda Express and Pei Mei would be better options for most. I hope they work a bit more on improvement. Perhaps the menu should be simpler with less options. Chinese food is always welcome but I would prefer a higher quality. read more

Great food! Clean place and service was very nice! Plenty of food for anyone! Definitely making two meals out of mine. Will be back! read more

Panda One - 24. Chicken Fried Rice 34. Beef Lo Mein 6. Crab Rangoon - Chinese Near Me - Tucson, Arizona

The food is always good and the business very professional. We always take the order to go and the order is always correct and fresh.

Nice little restaurant with friendly staff. I had the dinner portion which came with a lot of food for a great price. Also ordered a WonTon Soup that was so delicious!! Will definitely be stopping here again in the future! read more

Panda One - 13. Wonton Soup - Chinese Near Me - Tucson, Arizona

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I feel sorry for the folks that have given less than four stars. All I can say is their experience is an exception not the rule. This food is fantastic. I have been craving egg foo yong like I used to get back in Boston and have never found anything even close until this place. It is perfect! And I was shocked when I ordered the shrimp egg foo yong and they were very large pieces of shrimp in the patty. I have had three or four other items and they were all equally as good. I've been in Tucson for 10 years and this is my favorite spot so far. read more

Miss fried shrimp. Ordered General Taos, a fairly mainstream well-known dish on most menus. In this case it becomes popcorn chicken with fried rice. Not much more. Wife ordered teriyaki chix. Chicken is dry (old even) not flavorful. If you've eaten enough of either of these two they shouldn't be too hard to screw up. This is plain just not caring, believing that their clients (guests should be how we're viewed) won't know what basic Chinese food looks or tastes like. Frozen dinners are more accurate. read more

Great food!!! Best potstickers in town so far!!!! Pork and snow peas is also very good!!!

Amazing food. Thinking of going to Panda Express? Don't. Go to Panda One. Very high quality and my family will come back here any day!! We ordered the Sesame Chicken and Orange Chicken and split between two adults and one kid. Great serving size as well! read more

Great food. Low prices. Staff is friendly and engaging. Definitely a spot to come to again and again. read more

Panda One - Dinner specials. Szechuan chicken and house lo mein meals. You get two sides with each meal. Delicious food, great service. Low prices. - Chinese Near Me - Tucson, Arizona

Good food at a great price. The menu has so many options it's hard to pick. Panda one has existed there for a long time for a reason.

If I could give this place a below ZERO I would. The place is super dirty. The counter is disgusting as is the floor under it. This is the grossest part of my visit there. I ordered the Orange Chicken dinner special and the Kung Pao dinner special. I drove cross town with those two dinners. I served my family a plate and started to eat my portion as I took a fork full of fried rice I found an acrylic nail in my mouth!! I could have died, I've been sick for two days trying to forget the horrific experience. This means they're not wearing gloves which is super unsanitary. Do not eat here. The health department may be interested in checking this place, I'm sure it keep them busy read more

10/10 there food is delicious! great service and nice people. definitely better than panda express there food has really nice flavor

Ordered chicken Lo mein from here, worst thing I've ever tasted! Also the quantity is very less for what we pay! Chicken was smelly, guess it was rotten! I wonder why people sell these kind of expired and rotten stuff and that too super pricey! DO NOT ORDER FROM HERE! read more

Panda One - This is what is the quantity they give ! The size comparable to a jar.. It was like a kids meal lol - Chinese Near Me - Tucson, Arizona

Chow mein.... ONLY VEGETABLES in WATERS NO FLAVOR SAUCE. Save yourself and go somewhere else. everything was disappointing. when you order Kung pow shrimp you expect some sauce but it was drier than the sahara desert. Its honestly frustrating to be paying and wasting all of this food. just sad sad food. read more

Just discovered this place as we don't get to that part of town very often. Loved it! Moo Shu is my standard of comparison and this was the best I've had in many years! My wife had egg foo yung which as also excellent. Service was great! We will be back. read more

Crab Rangoon is good. Placed an order for delivery.... but dipping sauce for Rangoon's was straight sugar and so was the Phad Thai sauce. No peanuts at all besides the ones sprinkled on top. Shrimp were few and chewy read more

Absolutely Horrible food!! Today I stopped in for lunch an ordered the shrimp fried rice, and what I found made me loose my appetite not only one or two but every large shrimp (about 6 of them) were very much unclean and literally filled with the black line we all know is shrimp feces. My entire order of shrimp was disgusting. Then things got worse when I went to return the food and get my money back, the cashier lady (Asian lady on sun afternoon @ 2:30pm) could not care less and immediately took offense, gave me attitude and never apologized. To be honest I don't know why this place is still open, no one was in there and the food is not even that great, also old dishes were left on the tables from what must have been that mornings customers. I will not be taking my business there again. Unclean, rude, nasty place..shrimp should ALWAYS be d-veined!! read more

Panda One - Panda one shrimp fried rice - Chinese Near Me - Tucson, Arizona

For the price and the taste, panda one is one of the best places to get food. The lunch special is unbeatable and the staff is always friendly. Food tastes great every time. read more

I ordered the "sweet and sour chicken" while my SO ordered the kung poa chicken. They delivered the sweet and sour in such a weird way. Like the chicken looked like pieces of ginger and then they gave me a huge container of not great sweet and sour. It didn't really taste bad, it was just so weird... Everything tasted like pretty okay. Nothing special but good for how cheap all the food was. read more

Panda One - Chinese Near Me - Tucson, Arizona

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i was with my sons at 10:05 pm to buy something to eat. she called to hear what we wanted to eat and then she didn't call again, imagine that you won't believe it. i came to the windows, they give you food, and they closed the window and signaled with a hand sign as if no, i won't wait. you know what they did after that that girl and the Mexican guy who works there at Panda started making love and doing those things. then I got even more crazy and said that I will leave REVIEWS no matter what they do. yes, there are other people waiting the same and they passed just like me. I told them they were inside and won't work. if they serve us, I will never go to that panda again. read more

Very nice 'hole in the world' place..we had delicious lunch specials..hot & sour soup was great too..the best part was the girl serving with a smile the whole time!! read more

I've only been to Panda One the once, just the other day. I only went in because I have been jonesing for some sort of Asian food, for ever-so-long, and there we were, my son and my sister buying themselves burgers from Carl's Jr, me being told that no Chinese food places are going to be open this time of night, or, probably at all. And, I peer out the window and see the sign, "Open", point it out, "They're open!". My heart swelled with hope, desire, dreams of possibilities ... You know, the usual things the potential for good Asian cuisine bring out in one. Shortly thereafter, we were there, I was asked if I knew what I wanted by a lady who had manned the cash register, I asked for dumplings, she asked if I wanted steamed or fried. "Steamed." , I replied. Haha Okay, that's enough of that. The price was reasonable, especially considering that, when we got home, I found out their dumplings are about twice the size of most restaurants I have gotten them from. They also tasted fresher, healthier, more flavorful and came with a lovely sauce. That's all it took. One order of dumplings and I am hooked. read more

This place, as others have stated isn't exactly in the best area nor is there anything about the building that makes you say WOW...but..they are one of the only Chinese Food restaurants we have found here in AZ that has an ACTUAL PuPu platter with wings, and fingers and spare ribs pieces... It was so good. Reminded us of being back in Boston. The rice was fantastic along with real lol mein not made with those fat noodles so many places out here use. The flavors were great and even something as sime as the Chow Mein brought back a flood of memories about how Chinese food was supposed to taste. This is our new spot for all things Chinese food related. Now if they only had the brown gravy chow mein.... So Panda One keep it up, the food was fantastic.. read more

Extremely gross. Ordered from there and pad Thai was dry. The spring rolls we more like egg rolls and tasted like fish

Such a nice gal will wait on you, she is very sweet and kind. The food is okayish. I got really sick from the egg roll.... no clue why. I am allergic to some seafood so maybe it was contaminated. The vegies with chicken was okay. I was hoping for an inexpensive local Chinese eaterie. The sauce was lacking a bit, not that rich and tasty. The fried rice was had some nice vegies but was really dry. Not worth the risk for me to go back. read more

While I have been sick, I have been crazing Chinese food. Seriously craving. Eating it twice a day. It's total comfort food for me. I love me shrimp fried rice with a little sweet and sour sauce. Soooooo good. It being a Sunday, my favorite place was closed. So I drove down Oracle and found "Panda One." Strangely enough it's the same location where my favorite Chinese food take-out place once stood, Tokyo Rice Bowl. As it is, Panda One is something different. It's fairly generic inside and not particularly anything distinguishing about the decor or menu. I can't vouch for any lunch specials and all I had was a large shrimp fried rice to go. It was made up pretty quick and cost under $7.00. It wasn't the best shrimp fried rice- there was quite a few pieces of large shrimp but it did not grab me. I would consider going back again if I find a coupon or a good deal, but otherwise there seem to be other places in town I'd rather gravitate toward! read more

It's a hit and miss but lately it's been great the last few times I've been there it's been good and on point. Update went back yesterday had the general chicken extra spicy it was on point read more