Panda Kitchen

I did not have high hopes for this place, given the location and how dead it was but man was I wrong. We were seated right away, drink orders were taken promptly and and all orders were taken thereafter.
We ordered 4 combination plates that came with egg drop and hot and sour soup, an egg roll, a piece of fried butterfly shrimp chow mein, fried rice and we ordered Mongolian beef, sesame chicken, sweet and sour chicken and vegetables and shrimp. All 4 meals were outstanding! Their hot green jasmine tea was really good too.
The resturant itself is really cute. Right now it has Chinese decorations as well as Christmas and it just feels so warm and welcoming. All of the servers and busers were very happy to wait on us, ask if we would like plates and bowls removed and were quick to ask about refills. At the end the brought our family almond cookies, fortune cookies and cute little panda keychains.
We do not have many sit down Chinese food restaurants in Reno so I would glad y take a trip to come back and eat here again.

Food solid good, service kind but no anticipation of needs so ask for serving spoons and extra plates. Suschi pieces little thin. Prices a little high for diner atmosphere.

Good Food. Kinda Pricey.
I had to cut cmback on going as just 1 dish is 15.+ I get food cost have gone High but the huge jump in price and qty is not affordable.

We went here at lunch on a Thursday. Their lunch special consists of soup of your choice (egg drop or hot and sour), entree with fried rice or steamed rice and an egg roll. You can add chow mein also for an additional charge. Without the chow mein it was still a huge lunch portion. For $11 + tax I got a huge plate with crispy walnut shrimp. Their service was fast and the food was hot and fresh. Can't beat the price or service so we will definitely be back. Only reason for four stars was because the lady who took our order wanted us order like we were regular customers and since we had never been here it was very confusing and she didn't help explain anything.

As for the food the fried rice had the perfect amount of flavor. The shrimp was crispy and fresh. The egg roll was amazing. The hot and sour soup had an excellent amount of pepper and was the perfect temperature!

OK. Hopefully this is not going to be taken as a bash session, and more like a communication to help you with your business.

And really, that's all any business is. It's communication. I am a very high-level sales manager in the medical industry. Communication is everything.

So why a business would choose to have a waiter that cannot communicate to the people he's taking the order from is mind-boggling. What I wanted was kung pao chicken, minus the mushrooms, add celery. The unbelievable fiasco to try and communicate that to my waiter was laughable. Somehow he did get the no mushroom part out of the conversation that went on way too long, but the celery never showed in the dish.

Food:

The Kung pao chicken was not the worst I've ever had, but it certainly wasn't the best. There was way too much chicken to vegetable ratio. Hardly any peanuts by my standard. Meh.

The beef with mixed vegetable was completely inedible, as far as the beef goes. On both of these plates we picked out all the vegetables and ate them and left two piles of nasty, slimy, over marinated meat to the point where the enzymes broke down too far. Yuck.

One thing that could've saved the day was the hot and sour soup. But there is hardly anything in it. And what was in it I really don't trust at this point. If it was the same slimy meat that I had, then I will be lucky if I get through tonight without Gastro distress.

Even if I lived around the corner, I would never try this place again. Just based on the communications, let alone the weird meat.

Sorry folks.

Place was clean. I'll give it that.

Food is always hot and delicious. Service is quick and has always been correct. Can't wait to try the sushi there. Ambiance seems to be good. I really love this place and eat here at least twice a week.

This place has become our go to spot for dinner. E can get sushi, beef pad Thai and lemon chicken all in the same spot. The food is always amazing and service great. Our little loves checking out the lights.

good food but no fried shrimp only prawns
nice atmosphere chinese music in the background. try the garlic chicken.

Trying another Chinese restaurant in Carson City. Yet another restaurant that doesn't have my comfort food beef stew/tendons.
I went with my standby of beef chow fun. And yes, they had pretty good authentic Chinese yellow mustard.
The chow fun though hot(temperature), didn't seem to have enough "wok hei". It just didn't seem to have a hot enough wok to properly stir fry the noodles It also tasted a little sweet but that could have been the type of soy sauce they used.
This is another solid go to spot for decent Chinese food here in Carson City. I'm also glad they open a little later, to a whopping 9:30p.
Do try the beef chow fun here and the Chinese mustard if you dare.

Ours was a party of five. They had a buy three get one free promotion. Generated lots of food including two take home orders.
All of the food was very tasty. However, the service was confused. Early service for 2 of our party then 2 more 10 minutes later and another 10 before I was served. It was a kitchen problem no a wait staff problem. I don't know why as they were not that busy.
Doubt we would return.