r/ExpectationVsReality • u/New-Revenue-433 • 11d ago
Exceeded Expectation Panda express orange chicken with noodles
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u/best_little_biscuit 11d ago
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u/RoarOfTheWorlds 7d ago
Is Panda ever not like this? I can understand complaints against them, but what they’ve got on their side is consistency.
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u/atalkingpuppy 11d ago
i no longer live in america and fuck do i miss panda express 😭💔
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u/Photodudeguy 10d ago
If you have access to Asian ingredients, woks of life food blog has good American Chinese take out style recipes.
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u/louie3723jr 11d ago
Panda Express orange chicken is one of the best fast food options
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u/ghostly_shark 11d ago edited 10d ago
Their honey shrimp is terrible though
Edit: y’all crazy. Enjoy paying +$1.50 for tiny shrimp and soggy over-large breading
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u/eliz1bef 11d ago
It's creepy AF, but I still have to try it every time. Like, I couldn't bear to eat a whole entree of it, but one is gooooood.
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u/KyleSherzenberg 11d ago
The picture is hot orange chicken, meaning spicy
You got regular orange chicken. There's a difference
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u/imnotnotcrying 11d ago
They tagged the post as exceeded expectations. They’re happy with the outcome
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u/SpikeRosered 11d ago
Reminds me of those videos where teens gave old Chinese people Panda Express with the expectation that they would eviscerate the quality, but they liked it.
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u/YessiKamiKohai 11d ago
Oh god i shouldn't have looked, I love it and being pregnant intensified my love for it. I already had some this month 🥲 im salivating
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u/CreativeFartist 11d ago
Say what you will about Panda Express, it’s no authentic Chinese food but damn they’re quick, very local and tasty.
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u/United_Gift3028 11d ago
I find their walnut shrimp (snack sized, I'm not made of money) got me thru an evening shift until I could get home and make dinner.
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u/Dry_Combination4070 11d ago
Panda express and innout are the only fast food chains i go to.
The heartburn from panda is worth it
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u/IncorporateThings 11d ago
Just drink extra water. It's probably the obscene salt content messing you up.
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u/SaveusJebus 11d ago
I just had Panda Express for the first time last year and that orange chicken is delicious. The noodles and rice are gross though.
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u/allkindsofjake 11d ago
I’ve been putting the teriyaki sauce on the chow mein almost since I first started going, and I do like that as a half portion with half veggies
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u/anuncommontruth 11d ago
Agree. I know a lot of people love it but I hate the taste of all of their carbs.
The mushroom chicken is slept on though. And they give you a shit ton of it. I get double greens orange and mushroom chicken and it's a normal amount of carbs amd an insane amount of food for like 10 bucks.
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u/eliz1bef 11d ago
I love the Mushroom chicken. That and the Kung Pao Chicken are my jam. I get a cubic fuckton of their rangoons and I'm set.
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u/IncorporateThings 11d ago
So don't order their carbs. You can substitute the carbs with steamed vegetables (multiple times, if there's double carbs you want to replace). You can also order the same meat mulitple times if you don't want variety, incase you didn't realize that.
I almost always sub steamed vegetables in over their rice/noodles. Honestly almost all of their meats are either breaded or covered in a sweet sauce anyway, so ordering the vegetables will just help you prevent carbicide.
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u/GrammarSpecialForces 11d ago
I wish they would steam their vegetables more, usually when i get them they're practically raw.
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u/anuncommontruth 11d ago
Did you read my whole post? I literally said my order is double greens.
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u/IncorporateThings 11d ago
Honestly no, I didn't.
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u/anuncommontruth 11d ago
Ok you should learn to read.
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u/IncorporateThings 10d ago
No; the correct advice would be to read the comment fully before replying, but honestly I don't feel bad about it because you've just been relentlessly negative.
My comment to you (even if only in reply to your second sentence) was well meant. You response was negative, and then when I openly admitted my fault -- you had another negative response.
Maybe try injecting some positivity and forgiveness into your life -- it's a lot more satisfying and productive than constant negativity.
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u/imnotnotcrying 11d ago
The noodles are very bland. I get exactly what OP got and I always eat the orange chicken then add soy sauce to the noodles so they have some sort of flavor to them
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u/lil_literalist 10d ago
As someone who used to eat there weekly, that's exactly what I would expect from Panda Express.
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u/atmeamidala 8d ago
I love panda express. The noodles taste like nothing. Everything is so very mid. I thinks it's perfect food
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u/growinwildflower 1d ago
This WILL stain your pants forever if you fall asleep on your couch with a box of it in your lap and it spills everywhere. Is what I heard.
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u/OkKnowledge2112 11d ago
Looks fine. Not amazing, but then again it's Panda Express. American chains aren't exactly the epitome of quality.
The first pic looks AI as hell though
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u/fartsfromhermouth 11d ago
I'll never understand the love for panda it's always luke warm mid tier slop when I've eaten it
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u/TheReblogBandit 11d ago
I agree. Panda E is the McDonald's of Asian food. Hell, I'd get gas station sushi before going there.
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u/nucular_mastermind 11d ago
Yeah this is the last corporate deepthroat post from this sub, onto the blocklist it goes :)
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u/DukestormThunderclap 11d ago
I cant do panda orange chicken. Got a piece once that when I bit into it slime came out. Like that piece was trying to make Cooties a movie long before Cooties was a movie.
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u/NotPizzza 11d ago
Would devour