Panda Express prints no off-menu list, so every build below is an ordinary order placed in particular words. The Panda Express secret menu works because the line already holds each part behind glass. The Original Orange Chicken, a tortilla and a tray of brown rice sit within reach of one server.
What a build costs is whatever the board item rings up as, because that is the button the server presses. Every row below therefore names the item it starts from.
The short answer
Nothing on the Panda Express secret menu is a separate product. Each build swaps a grain, adds a wrap or asks for an ingredient the line already carries. The till records the board item underneath. Both figures on the row therefore belong to it.
Panda Express secret menu at a glance
$6.50
orange chicken
$3.20
fried rice
$7.20
wok-fired shrimp
How the Panda Express Secret Menu Works
The Panda Express line hides no second kitchen behind it. Each build swaps one component of something already sitting in the steel trays, or asks a server to wrap it differently. The Panda Express secret menu therefore shifts from one restaurant to the next, depending on what that line is holding when you reach it.
Every row names the board item the order starts from, and both figures beside it belong to that item before the swap. A swap changes what lands in the box, not what the till records. Each item on the line carries a price and a calorie figure of its own.
Panda Express Secret Menu Orange Chicken Builds
The Original Orange Chicken sits under both builds, battered dark meat in a sweet chilli and orange glaze. A tortilla turns that scoop into a burrito, wrapped round chow mein or fried rice in place of a box. The bacon ask is the other one, run through the scoop by a server before the lid goes on.
| Item | Base calories | Base price |
|---|---|---|
| Orange Chicken Burrito Ask for The Original Orange Chicken folded into a tortilla over a bed of chow mein or fried rice | 490 | $6.50 |
| Orange Chicken with Bacon Order The Original Orange Chicken and ask for bacon run through the scoop before it is boxed | 490 | $6.50 |
Panda Express Secret Menu Rice and Shrimp Swaps
Brown Fried Rice starts from the steamed brown grain, which sits on the line all day beside the white. Fried Rice keeps its peas, carrot and egg exactly where they were. Wok-Fired Shrimp travelled the other way entirely, starting as a build people asked for by name. It now holds a printed price of its own.
| Item | Base calories | Base price |
|---|---|---|
| Brown Fried Rice Ask for the fried rice built on steamed brown rice in place of the white grain | 520 | $3.20 |
| Wok-Fired Shrimp Order wok-fired shrimp by name, a build that started off the board and now sits on it | 240 | $7.20 |
Panda Express Secret Menu Questions
About the author
Sophia W. Steadham writes MenuQuill. She is a food blogger and restaurant review expert who has spent years eating her way through American chain menus, from small-town drive-thrus to national roll-outs.