Panda Express in Henderson
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Henderson, Rusk County, Texas, US
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Site: https://www.pandaexpress.com/
- Monday:10:30AM–10PM
- Tuesday:10:30AM–10PM
- Wednesday:10:30AM–10PM
- Thursday:10:30AM–10PM
- Friday:10:30AM–10:30PM
- Saturday:10:30AM–10:30PM
- Sunday:10:30AM–10PM
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Very good food and fast service.Chinese food is my favorite, so I always look forward to places that have what Im looking for and Panda Express seems to go above and beyond what I am expecting!Their food is always hot and the employees are ready to help in any way they can.The honey walnut shrimp is my favorite and the brown steamed rice is usually what I order with it.I will definitely be back!Thank you so much for such a pleasant experience!
They are always rude. Never have anything fixed that you want to order, and then always say theyre not going to cook it because it is almost closing time. They close when they want to. Some days at 9 pm and some at 3pm. Make up your minds... The food always tastes over cooked. Some one needs to step in and change their ways.
Seeing a Panda Express open up in Henderson was very exciting considering most of the food in town consists of two options—Mexican or fast food. What a let down it has turned out to be. Oftentimes, the food is cold or tastes like it has been sitting out for quite a while. That is, if they even have the food youre asking for. At any point in the day, theres a 50/50 chance that they wont have a particular item on the menu. I understand supply shortages, but this is atypical of other restaurants in the area. Not only that, but today I was given a medium box of food when I ordered and paid for a large size. Im not sure how this gets messed up, as theres a noticable difference between the two. Since the lobby is closed, I was left waiting outside while the mistake was fixed. Theres obviously a problem here, as many other reviews have the same comments. Its very disappointing to say the least, and I hope theyll take note of these issues and try to do better.
11/07/2021: drive thru was decent and fast moving. Food was horrible. Overcooked chicken. Undercooked ride. Looked like they scraped it off the floor and threw it in the container, then dropped container on the floor upside down and handed it out the window. Usually decent food but today was awfully disappointing!
I don’t know how this place stays in business!!?? Never have anything you ask for and the wait time for their claimed “2 mins” is atrocious!! You could grow a full beard while waiting. Guaranteed to get your order wrong, or have anything actually on the menu. I think the problems started with management, and they were given an excuse by COVID. Think it’s time to fire what’s left of the staff, shut it down and call it even!!
I’m on my way from another city to get Panda Express from this one. I went to a different one who told me they didn’t have the greens. I totally understand everyone is understaffed right now, but these guy at this place say, “there’s a wait on the greens,” instead of saying they don’t have them. I don’t mind the wait, I love these greens. I see how hard these guys work and I thought they deserve 5 stars because they never disappoint me
Thus place is supposed to be open until 10:30 on Saturday night. At 8:30 they had nothing left except very hard orange chicken and nasty lo-mein. They didnt offer to cook anything cause it was after 8 pm. If they are open until 10:30 it seems to me that is a loss in revenue as well as customers. You can bet I will never get food from here again.
I am so sad. I just called Panda in Henderson. Diningroom is still closed. If I am going to Panda I dine in. Whats the problem? They are the ONLY restaurant that I am aware of that still have dining room closed in Henderson. You can walk in and get your food but cannot eat there. Makes no sense!! Sad.
Worst Panda Express I’ve ever been to, and I adore the chain! Lo Mein was 98% onion, noodles were few, far between, and shriveled. Their “serving sizes” were minuscule compared to most of the locations I’ve been to. And my Entree “Grilled Teriyaki Chicken” had zero teriyaki anywhere to be seen. I will never go back to this location! I’d rather drive to Tyler where I know the food and service are good.
Went here to enjoy a dinner out with wife and grandson. Ordered our meal at 7:03pmWas told would be about 20 minutes. 7:30 no meal. Asked about our meal and was told its almost ready. At 7:57 was told parts were still cooking was almost done. I got our money back and left. This was such a mess that I will never set foot in this place again. I also will tell everyone I can to boycott this place.have lived in henderson for forty years , this is worst run place I have ever been. I can not say anything about food never got any.
They are the worst Panda Express I have ever been to. The food is always cold, they never get your order correct and the employees want to argue with you. We have called on multiple occasions and have been told that dine in is available. We then drive 15 minutes to be told that the dining room is closed. They told us they stopped serving dine in at 9:30, we arrived at 8:00.
We went there on a Sunday after church about 730 the serving staff was very lazy and obviously putting time in trying to get done to go home. They said they were out of tea and wouldn’t have any till another day? They were telling people they were out of other items on the menus and would have to pick something else. While eating i observed one of them checking the temp the items on the serving line and inform the other one that they were cold and the warmer wasn’t even on and laughing about it. The girls seemed to just want to play back and forth and not want to take care of the customers.considering Walmart is 100 yards from them if they really were out of tea I would like to think a manager had enough sense to go next door and buy some. But given how much they said they were out of and how they were cleaning up to have it ready to go home 2 hours early I tend to think they just didn’t want to make it. I got teriyaki chicken with rice and the rice in the bottom of the bowl had so much sauce on it it looked like soup. About 2 inches deep. I couldn’t eat the rice. Looks like they need a manager to me.
The worst experience Ive ever had anywhere. Lied about the wait. I dont mind waiting but when the food arrives it needs to be good. I ordered broccoli beef and Beijing beef with fried rice. The rice was semi hard and there was zero beef in the broccoli beef. The broccoli looked old. The Beijing beef tasted like fried calf liver. Not good at all. I will never eat here again. I dont want the free entree from here. Needs new management or ownership or closing. One sorry experience. Worst Panda Express ever. I only added the star because you have to pick one.
We spent the day driving an hour and a half to explore Henderson as a family. Our girls really like to eat at Panda Express, but we will not eat there again when we go back to Henderson the next time. They only he about half the normal dishes we have seen at other locations, and what they did have looked like it had lvbeen sitting there all day. The fried rice was tasteless. None of us was happy with our meal. Disappointing!
Two on staff were eating when I came in. Neither acknowledged me. Finally I asked if someone could help me. One lady stated she didnt know I was ready. Got up from her break. Took my order prepared my order, never washing her hands. The noodles were cold so was my meat choice. I ended up tossing the rest in the trash and left.
Every time I visited this place, they were always out of stuff. I ordered teriyaki chicken but they were out. The girl said it would ready in @ 10 minutes. 20 minutes later, its still not done. THEN, once it was ready I then found out they were out of teriyaki sauce...really... Will not return.
This was the worse experience we have ever had. The food was cold and we got there right after they opened. The Beijing beef or however you spell it, tasted like beef jerky with sauce on it. There was hair in our food. I asked for extra mustard and the lady rolled her eyes at me. I thought restaurant workers were suppose to either wear a hat or hairnet. That was like throwing 25.00 down the drain. The worker was trying to argue with me about the super bowl.
Was told it would be a 7 min wait on my food and to pull around. 20 minutes later I had to go in to the restaurant just to find out they hadnt even started cooking my order. Another 10 minutes and one more trip through the drive thru I finally received my order, just to get home and see it was the wrong order. Unacceptable
I love Panda Express, but the one in Henderson never has any food cooked..take tonight 630...no chow mein, no teriyaki chicken, no broccoli and beef, no chicken and green beans, no wontons, no terriaki sauce, no fried shrimp or honey sesame chicken....and its that way all the time and the server acted mad because we were ordering??? Who owns this restaurant, Guess we will go to Kilgore from now on
Ive been there on severa occasions lt was never that great but tonight was the worst yet.They had a long line not enough employees to even help people . finally got up there to order and they were out of everything and what they did had looked all old and shriveled up. I wont make the mistake of going there again
Well let me tell ya....if theyd hire someone who could cook.....other then young adults....angus beef overcooked tasted burnt....had to wait for second entree 20 plus minutes....so when I got to the house my rice was cold....n the second entree I waited 20 minutes plus for....had one daggum piece of chicken.....yeah pretty much done with panda express......
Total reviews rating 3.3
117 Reviews for Panda Express 2023:
Review №1
2022-05-13I wish that I had known that I could post pictures here, because they would really explain how I felt when I opened the box! All I saw was a mound of white rice, (I ordered fried rice), with a very small amount of chicken and mushrooms. The other entree was covered with large pieces of almost raw broccoli. I do understand, however, that is how a lot of restaurants cook it. It would be nice if they enclosed a knife with the fork, though. I ordered the food by mobile and said that I wanted it ASAP, but when I arrived, they didnt seem to have gotten the order. I was told to pull around front and they would bring it to me. Well, after about 15 minutes later, I realized that they hadnt even started on it. The girl that brought the food out was very apologetic for the wait, which had been another 8 minutes. I wish I could say that it was worth the wait, but.......
Review №2
2022-05-08The employees were very nice. Because the Beijing Beef pan insert was almost empty, I asked for fresh Beijing Beef. I was told that the Beijing beef was fresh and had just finished cooking . When I got to my car, I began to eat my meal. The Beijing beef was at a lesser temperature than room temperature. There were two hot pieces of Beijing beef and the rest was cold.. I concluded that the two hot pieces were the pieces that were touching the pan insert. The orange chicken was fresh and hot, however, it was depleted of the sauce that made the orange chicken famous. In other words, the crust was ..almost completely devoid of the sauce..it wasnt even wet..though the chicken itself was hot and fresh. It was somewhat of a conundrum. The Beijing beef had a delicious tasty sauce but it was cold, while the orange chicken was hot and fresh and almost completely devoid of any sauce. The rice was delicious, however, there were a few obvious large clumps. This was my first time to have this experience at this particular Panda Express. As stated earlier, the employees were very nice. However, on this occasion, they came up a little short on the overall satisfaction of the food. I will return to this restaurant. Hopefully, this day was just a very, very rare day of underachievement.
Review №3
2022-06-11The staff were happy and helpful, food was all a little old. Nothing super fresh as only one person could cook and chef was out on lunch and what they had was what they had...Ladies toilets, I walked into the bathroom and had two drips fall onto my head from the ac outlet, there was dry diarrhea up the back of the bowl, under the seat and pooled at the back of the toilet. The paper towel dispenser would not dispense!Apart from that, all was good. Sounds worse than it was! Food was filling, service was good and I love panda express so I will be back!!!
Review №4
2022-06-23Now that Danny has become manager of this Panda they dont play. We quit coming to here because they never had half the menu selection and food never prepared properly. We compared it to the one in Longview. We are now back on board all the way food fresh, fast and great service. We are back. Thanks Danny and Panda
Review №5
2022-07-12I dont understand all the poor reviews. We walked in, ordered our food. It was hot, good and the staff was courteous. Perhaps we caught them on a good day. Our first time but not our last eating here. My only minor issue is the price has risen dramatically and that will curtail our future visits
Review №6
2022-07-14It was very disappointing. They had 3 items to choose from. Good was way to spicy in the kids meals and didnt get everything that was supposed to get. Had to wait 34 minutes for 1 item they said was almost finished cooking,then had to go back up to remind them.
Review №7
2022-06-01It was good food. Had to await a little while but it was worth it.
Review №8
2022-03-27They open late there no sign that say, you come to the drivethrue and they dont even say we open late they just dont acknowledge you at all ! You wait and still dont have the hole menu there excuse is short staff but you do open late ! So disappointed of this place and yes they close at 10:30 and by 8 they dont have nothing to sell . I can understand the shortage of employees but still its not a reason not to have alittle respect for the coustomers .
Review №9
2022-05-19I don’t even know why I continue to try and come to this place!! They NEVER have anything ready. The past 3 times i’ve came they haven’t had anything ready that I want at lunch time. You would think they would have stuff ready before they opened!! I have to stop coming to this one in Henderson because it is a total disappointment every. single. time.
Review №10
2022-03-02Ordered my food only to have to wait 45 minutes and the employees bring us out cold food with the excuse their terryaki grill meanwhile 6 cars have been served since we ordered. Then the server has the nerve to tell us when we complained “my manager said if you have a complaint you need to address it to her not us” and proceeds to argue with my wife