Happy Panda — Restaurant in Lexington

First time I've ordered from here (via Door Dash). Delivery was very quick (about 25 minutes and it was left, as requested, outside by my place of business - it's in mid 30s outside today). I ordered wonton soup, an egg roll and the "signature" chicken wraps.

Considering the food was delivered, and considering it was sitting outside, in the cold, I was shocked when the wonton soup was scalding, and I mean, SCALDING hot. I can appreciate when the food is warm, but I actually have blisters throughout my mouth from the soup. I didn't even close my mouth, I let the soup pour out of my mouth instead of trying to swallow it. So, I count that as strikes one and two.

Strike three goes toward the "Signature" chicken and lettuce wraps. I've had wraps from other places and I suppose I had gotten spoiled. This dish came in two containers; one for the 1/4 head of lettuce, and one for the chicken filling. As for the chicken filling, it was comprised of dry, ground chicken bits. There was no sauce and the flavor was just kind of the flavor of charred chicken nuggets.

At this point, the egg roll really doesn't matter. I'd asked for a mustard packet and a sweet and sour sauce packet. I only got the sweet one...it could've maybe been edible, but without extra sauce, it was your run of the mill deep fried (and very small) egg roll.

I never review places. I know that folks work hard and negative reviews matter. But my mouth is going to be hurting for days and i just couldn't let that go...

I spent the week down in Lexington and ate here four of the five days... for lunch (1130-ish timeframe)... Monday - Lunch Take out menu of Gen Tso chicken... was good a crispy; Tuesday - ordered House Mai Fun... had good flavor and was a good portion... the Manager suggested getting their take out from the buffet... which looked good. Thursday - got the two-main buffet of Gen Tso and Beef & Mushroom... those were good, crispy Gen Tso and flavorful Beef and Mushroom... over a generous portion of steamed rice. Friday, repeated the two-main buffet with a Pineapple Chicken (good) and Teriyaki Chicken (that was honestly only okay). Overall, I appreciated how quick their service was for both the take out and buffet line... in and out in less than 5 minutes... lovely Hostess that provided good recommendations... I would eat here again, well priced... recommend the Buffet as take out... 2 Cups+/- portion of steamed rice and generous Cup+ of each Entre'... with an Egg...

Humph..... Trying to decide on my thoughts for this restaurant. I do like the overall look of the inside of the restaurant.. I would have never thought it was going to look that way on the inside . The inside the core is very nice. Now about the food that I purchased. I ordered the lunch special which was the sesame chicken My 2 sides were an egg roll and white rice. The sesame Chicken is decent I guess. I'm more use to sesame chicken having a little more sauce on it. It was a little dry but definitely edible. The white rice was plain as normally is. The egg roll was pretty decent as well. I will go back and try it again to see if this review changes and update...