Panda Garden Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Thornton

Update: 3/22/2024 -- Ordered delivery which arrived way earlier than expected. Our orders were as fresh out the wok as they are in the restaurant. Perfect flavors, as usual.

Recently saw a cooking show where they talked about wok hei, which is the smoky flavor produced by a well-used wok. This is the clue I needed to discover why my Chinese concoctions are never as good as Panda's.

Old reviews: Chinese flavors and preparations exactly as expected, with attention to attractive presentation and freshest ingredients. We've enjoyed Panda Garden, either eat-in or take-out, at least 40 times.

We prefer their dine-in. Take out has been fine, but make the trip to their storefront to get their best work. Service is generally prompt, although timing can sometimes be a little off. The wait staff is dedicated to providing an optimal experience, and once you get to know the staff, they are down to earth, friendly, and conversational.

Our favorite dishes include walnut shrimp, orange beef, happy family, cashew chicken, and anything sweet and sour. We also enyoy the egg foo yung dishes, soups, and appetizers. The seafood chowder is amazing, one of our Covid finds when the only way we could enjoy Panda was through delivery. We also recently tried the wor wonton soup, and it's amazing, too. Soooo good!

Delivery service has been prompt, always within in an hour. After the food arrives, we usually nuke the soup to make sure it's super hot and pop the eggrolls and fried shrimp into the air fryer for a minute or two. The main courses have always arrived warm enough to enjoy with no "help."

Decor is strip shop.

All in all, great food, good service, and always a pleasant experience.

Update: 4/1/2023 -- Another excellent meal at Panda. Food came out piping hot. They outdid themselves on the orange beef. We also enjoyed the perfect chicken lo mein.

Update: 4/14/2018 -- I feel required to report that this evening's meal at Panda Garden was outstanding. Timing was perfect, and the food came out steaming hot. Plus, we ran into some of my partner's friends who agreed that they love this place.

Update: 2/1/2019 -- Outdid themselves on the orange beef tonight. Everything else was perfect, and service prompt and well-timed.

Update: 5/17/2019 -- Amazing meal again, and the timing was perfect.

Update: 7/9/2021 -- So nice to be back for dine-in. Wonderful meal, great conversation with the server, our usual Panda Garden experience

Update: 6/18/2022 -- There were a few adjustments back to dine-in service, but I must report that tonight's dinner was perfect. We tried the wor wonton soup, which was incredible, super fresh vegetables, perfectly cooked shrimp, lovely broth. We then had a couple of our standby's, orange beef and almond chicken. Service was perfect as well.

Update: 10/19/2022 -- Perfect in every way. Food came to the table steaming hot, flavors balanced to perfection, ingrdients fresh and flavorful. Good to see more people in dine-in, and the sound of the phone ringing means they're doing lots of take-out. Only one server in the dining room, but timing was spot on.

Update: 10/19/2024 -- Our current favorites are wor wonton soup, shrimp with lobster sauce, and orange beef. Service still excellent, timing still excellent, doesn't get...

I’ve had three deliveries from this Chinese restaurant, Panda Garden First time very nice second time same order lemon chicken. The chicken was about as thin as paper with breading on the outside third time chicken was like cold in the center because it’s been deep-fried. Tried telling me that when the delivery was made, they went to many other deliveries before mine, I said That only works on food that gets cold from the outside and not from the inside out asked for extra rice did not send. It said they would refund only if they came and picked up the whole order trying to make an order with this place is ridiculous. You give them the number five times for them to figure it out then you have to talk to somebody that understands English And then they won’t even fulfill your full order but they blame the manager for saying they have to do certain things a certain way and waste my time in my meal, but will not replace it. My overall thoughts of this place is that they do not care about customer service only about their bottom line and how much they’re making and how quickly they can turn it over and not respect in their customer or their guarantees...

Sorry to say I will not be returning. There was only one waitress everyone was waiting for something from her it seemed like. We ordered mu shu "combination" (only had 2 shrimp smh)it comes with rice on the side and an order of low mein on the side as well with boba to drink. The first thing we received was the low mein (tasted like ramen noodles) very dry. Then came the mu shu which we waited a while for but to my surprise was already wrapped. In other places you assemble in your own. So I thought that was weird. But there was only one wrap each. Then we were left there with the lo mein and mu shu for like 10mins. Finally she brought out the boba then I asked her if she could bring the rice so she did. The steamed rice was good. The fried rice sucks. Sorry. So my final review in this place is that it's not terrible but I wouldn't go back again especially with the service. I couldn't even get my Thai Tea with boba like what do you mean! What is that!!!??? I've done it everywhere else and if they don't have it usually the can accommodate for the...