Panda Chinese Restaurant

A nice little buffet that offers some different dishes than others Chinese restaurants. Super friendly staff. But one area where this little place excels is the offer delivery.

Me and my boys stopped by for lunch after seeing Star Wars! Excellent movie but that’s where excellent stopped. Food seemed to be cooked by college dorm room freshman, and the place was greasy, slipped on the floor, in several spots. Cold wonton soup and noodles that my 7 year old said tasted like, «they pooped in the dumpling». I did not go up for seconds. The kids were full after the poop dumplings and a sundae that came from the machine in a Frosty consistency. Normally we compete who went up the most times. When we got home, my son tossed up the food an hour later in our newly acquired home, just in time for the wife coming and yelling at me for taking them to a dive. I was punished by cleaning up the slop.
2 stars-​1 for cheap prices and 1 for honesty in presentation.

I went there for the first time around dinner time on a Saturday. Food was cold and picked over. not much to choose from and the 9 $ dinner price was not worth it.
I won’t be going back

Fully legit American Chinese food, and the service is typically excellent. And hello, ice cream bar! Food is great, prices are right on target. Order or visit with confidence.

The food here is good. I can’t take that away. I work across the street at the hospital. Many of my coworkers frequent here. I went with my oldest to eat. Upon finishing the bill was brought to the table and I handed the waitress my credit card to pay. I laid her tip in cash on the table. Because the bill was so low I didn’t need to sign it when she brought it back. She grabbed her tip and said «have nice day.» Before leaving I went to the bathroom and we left. As we were walking across the parking lot to our car our waitress came running towards us arms flailing yelling stop, stop. We no take the kind of credit card. I returned to pay the bill and told what appeared to be the manager that maybe our waitress should have told me before the scene. She said «yeah.» Like I was the problem. I was completely embarrassed. The patrons in the restaurant and other businesses there probably thought they saw someone caught trying to stiff an establishment on a bill.

This is your average Chinese buffet. Lunch was $ 6.49 and had what most basic buffets would have. The only thing missing was a salad bar, because I like to start with a salad to offset the damage to be done afterwards. But all the food I had was good.
Bottom line, if you want a Chinese buffet for cheap, come here.

It was ok, nothing special though. They do have quite a few chicken dishes to choose from and one was growing on me. I liked that they offered icecream for dessert. We went for lunch and the price is reasonable.

Apparently Pandas are plentiful in the Cleveland, Panda BUFFETS that is:)
This smaller version of Panda Buffet is up in Willoughby, just off the main drag of Euclid Avenue. it’s a nice little place where the food is good, plentiful and fresh and staff are very nice and always on point to make sure you glass is full and your needs are tended to. I don’t know if the place is good for big groups, but if you’re interested in stopping off before a movie at the local theater, or catching a quick and healthy bite before going shopping, I suggest the Panda. Their prices are good and they won’t empty your wallet while you fill up your «tank»;)
So, stop by the Panda Buffet, it «bears» up very well against the competition:)

I have no problem with cheap Chinese food. It’s usually pretty easy to deep fry something and put some sauce on it. Somehow, this place screws it up. My wife and I both got the buffet. It was about 6:30, so prime dinner time, the food should be getting turned over pretty quick. Not the case here. I started with some crab rangoon, an egg roll, potstickers, and the wonton soup. For some reason the «soup» was just a broth and the wontons were on a separate warmer. The broth was fine, but the wontons were dried out, and the meat inside was pretty nasty. The egg roll was very bad as well, fried on the outside but not cooked all the way through. I had one bite of potstickers and again couldn’t deal with whatever type of meat was inside of it. They tasted like they had been there for 2 or 3 days. The crab rangoon was pretty good, but it’s hard to screw up crab meat and cream cheese.
I tried some bacon-​wrapped crab (pretty sure it was imitation crab, but whatever), a spare rib, and the General Tso’s chicken (since it’s the only thing I saw brought out fresh from the kitchen while I was there). None of it had any real flavor. No spice at all to the chicken, and it’s pretty clear that the ribs and the bacon/​crab combo had been sitting for some time. Chewy and flavorless. My wife got the chicken and broccoli which she said was OK, but her chicken and mushrooms tasted more like salt than anything else.
I’m used to going to a Chinese buffet and having the desserts be pre-​package stuff you can buy at Sams Club. This is the first Chinese buffet I’ve been to where it seemed like all of the food was stuff you could buy at a discount store and reheat at home. The problem is they didn’t even do the reheating right. The best part of my meal was the tea, and honestly even that wasn’t good, just drinkable. The worst part of it was that we went the day before Thanksgiving, and their food left me without an appetite for the next day. I don’t head out to this side of town very often, but if I could save someone else from eating at this awful restaurant I’ll consider it a service.

I can’t believe I never wrote a review for this place before. I have lived here for just over a year now, and this place is the ONLY Chinese food place (that delivers) that I like. They are sometimes busy, but always polite. I know our past orders pop up on the screen when we give our phone number, but they are so used to us that if we ask to change things up and ask her to recommend something, she is spot on :) The food is great, we never ever had any issues with taste, quality or meager servings. If we ask for things a certain way, they always remember. They are USUALLY very quick on delivery too. Sometimes the containers leak which can be messy, but we have never had a meal spoiled because of it. Prices are very good and you can get a real good amount of food for the dollar.

I was in the area craving Asian noodles/​rice. I was going to try Thai Orchid in Mentor, but they were closed for the weekend, due to a family reunion. I order pizza from Jet’s, which is next door to the Panda Chinese restaurant, all the time, but had never tried this restaurant before. I stopped in on a Sunday, and was a little bit hesitant, because the restaurant was relatively empty. I’m not a big fan of buffet style restaurants, but was hungry and tired. I was pleasantly surprised that the food looked fresh, and wasn’t dried out from sitting out too long (except for the sushi and cheesecake, neither was chilled properly… I’ll pass!). I had a number of routine Asian buffet dishes that all in all were pretty decent. There was plenty of fresh fruit for dessert. As I mentioned, this was just ok, I’ll probably visit again at some point.

This was always my go-​to Chinese restaurant when I lived in Cleveland and when I had to come into town for business this past week I insisted we come here. The food is always good, the service is always friendly and efficient and it’s cheap.

Just OK Chinese food. A cut below most take out places and not nearly the best buffet in the area. I can’t recommend it.

This is our go-​to Chinese. When I’m in a hurry, I’ll grab food from the buffet to go, otherwise, their won ton soup or the peanut chicken are really worth waiting for.
The staff are friendly, and quick to remember the regulars. I definitely recommend it.

Panda Panda Panda Panda Pan-​Pan-​DA! (sorry, now that Deerhoof song is in my head)
Sort of in a hurry for food last night because my child does not yet understand the meaning of waiting and we were in the area. So… Panda Buffet it was.
I’m pretty sure you can order from a menu OR get buffet. We opted for the buffet (horrifying, I know) because it was faster and child of mine was wasting away to nothing.
I would say, next time I’ll order from the menu because the buffet was alllll kinds of scary. It might be good if you’re brave and if you know how to not vomit or spit out food when you get something gross or questionable. The buffet had tons of options and some of the stuff was pretty good. Others… well, let’s just say don’t eat the wonton or potstickers. Both had mystery meat in them. Any seafood they offered was much less than fresh. I steered clear of that because I was not in the mood to be hooked up to IV fluids.
Service was good. The girls that work there are nice. They love babies and didn’t give me the stink-​eye when my kid was being a bit noisy.
I would probably go back because I’m adventurous and because the few things that were actually edible on the buffet were totally worth the 9 bucks for all you can eat. Plus there was ice cream.

This is my wife’s favorite Chinese in the world. I don’t get it, but she’s swears by the sweet and sour tofu. We used to get it when we lived by 1 – 90 and route 91. Now i live by 1 – 90 and west 150^th. I must have some strange attraction to the interstate.
We had said tofu Saturday and it was exactly the same. Crispy and not soggy. The egg roll is actually a spring roll. I hate when you order a spring roll and they give you a disgusting greasy egg roll. This place is the opposite. You never know which you’ll get depending on the establishment.
Anyhow, for making my wife so very happy, this place gets high marks. It’s also across from Lake West hospital. If you are staying there for any reason, you can have Chinese for your last meal.