Panda Express Menu with Prices and Calories

Panda Express cooks American Chinese food to order along a line of woks behind the counter. The Panda Express menu asks for a box size first and the food that fills it second. Bowls, Plates and Bigger Plates step up by one scoop of entree at a time.

The Original Orange Chicken has led that line since a Hawaii kitchen first tossed the pieces in chilli and orange. Chow mein, fried rice and Super Greens fill the other half of the box.

Panda Express menu at a glance

Panda Express Menu Prices and Calories

Steel pans hold every entree along the serving line, and a server fills the box in front of you. The Panda Express menu runs chicken, beef, brisket and shrimp scoops over chow mein, fried rice, white steamed rice or Super Greens. Appetizers, a kids Cub Meal and party trays bracket either end of it.

Sections below follow the Panda Express menu in the order the counter works through it, from box sizes to catering trays. Meals and trays list a price alone. Single items carry a calorie figure and a price, plus a size where one applies.

Panda Express Bowl, Plate and Bigger Plate Prices

Every order opens with a box size. That one choice decides how many scoops of entree land beside the base, and it is the first question the server asks. A Bowl takes one entree. A Plate carries a second, and a Bigger Plate adds a third.

Build Your Own Plate follows the Plate layout, and Panda Express lists 430 to 1,640 calories for it per serving. Each bundle pairs a box with a medium fountain drink. A Bowl Bundle takes one entree, a Plate Bundle two and a Bigger Plate Bundle three. Every box takes one base, and the base can be split half and half.

Panda Express Premium Entree Upcharge

Three scoops sit above the standard line. Each one adds a surcharge when it goes into a box, and the surcharge applies per scoop rather than per order. Cantonese BBQ Brisket is flame-seared beef brisket in a char siu style sauce. Honey Walnut Shrimp and Black Pepper Sirloin Steak carry the lower surcharge.

Panda Express Chicken Entrees and Calories

Chicken carries the widest stretch of the wok line, running from crispy and sauced through grilled and sliced. The Original Orange Chicken is crispy chicken wok-tossed in a sweet and spicy orange sauce. It anchors the off-menu builds. Honey Sesame Chicken Breast adds crispy white-meat strips in a mild honey sauce.

Mushroom Chicken, String Bean Chicken Breast and Grilled Teriyaki Chicken run the lighter end of the Panda Express menu. The first table lists the Small size and the calorie figure Panda Express prints for each item. Eight more chicken scoops follow in the second table, each with a single price and calorie figure. Medium and Large prices sit in their own section further down.

Panda Express Beef, Steak and Shrimp Entrees

Beijing Beef pairs crispy beef with bell pepper and onion in a sweet-tangy sauce. Broccoli Beef keeps the plainer cut, tender beef and fresh broccoli in a ginger soy sauce. It holds the lowest calorie figure of the five in the first table. Shanghai Boneless Ribs, Mongolian Ribeye Steak & Fries and Spicy Wagyu Beef Dumplings follow in a second table.

Black Pepper Sirloin Steak and Cantonese BBQ Brisket sit in the premium tier of the Panda Express menu. Honey Walnut Shrimp joins them there as large tempura-battered shrimp in a honey sauce with glazed walnuts.

Panda Express Shrimp, Steak and Fish Entrees

Firecracker Shrimp, Chili Crisp Shrimp, Sizzling Shrimp and Wok-Fired Shrimp make up the shrimp-only scoops. Truffle Soy Steak & Shrimp, Wok Seared Steak & Shrimp and Crispy Sesame Shrimp & Beef pair two proteins in one dish. Steamed Ginger Fish is the only fish scoop in the group. Wok-Fired Shrimp holds the lowest calorie count at 190.

Panda Express Tofu Entrees

Tofu covers the meat-free end of the Panda Express menu. Eggplant Tofu braises cubes of tofu with eggplant and red bell pepper in a sweet, savoury sauce. Tofu Stir Fry keeps its sauce lighter and leans on the vegetables. Eggplant Tofu carries 340 calories against 160 for Tofu Stir Fry.

Panda Express Sides, Rice and Noodles

Chow Mein is stir-fried wheat noodles with onions and cabbage. Fried Rice brings steamed white rice together with soy sauce, egg, peas, carrots and green onions.

Super Greens swaps all of that for broccoli, kale and cabbage, and it holds the lowest calorie figure of the sides. White Steamed Rice stays plain. The first table lists the Medium size, and Quinoa Brown Fried Rice and Chow Fun follow in a second table.

Panda Express Appetizers

Crispy wonton wrappers hold the rolls and rangoon on the Panda Express menu. Veggie Spring Roll packs cabbage, celery, carrots, green onions and Chinese noodles, while Chicken Egg Roll swaps in chicken. Cream Cheese Rangoon fills the wrapper with cream cheese, arrives with sweet and sour sauce, and declares milk, egg and wheat. Chicken Potsticker and Apple Pie Roll follow in a second table.

Panda Express Medium and Large Prices

Entrees, sides and appetizers on the Panda Express menu also come in larger sizes at the counter and in the app. Panda Express lists one calorie figure per item rather than one per size, so this table carries a price for each size and nothing else. Medium and Large entrees step up from the Small rows above. Premium scoops climb highest of all.

Panda Express Refreshers and Brewed Teas

Fruit refreshers and flavored teas fill this group of drinks. Mango Guava Flavored Tea, Peach Lychee Flavored Refresher, Watermelon Mango Flavored Refresher and Pomegranate Pineapple Flavored Lemonade come in 24 oz cups. Lemon Green Tea and Passion Mango Black Tea carry 10 and 5 calories at the Small size. Honest Peach Tea and Honest Half Tea Half Lemonade round out the group.

Panda Express Fountain Drinks

Fountain taps on the Panda Express menu pour twelve flavors in Small, Medium and Large. Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coca Cola Cherry, Sprite, Fanta Orange, Fanta Strawberry, Dr Pepper, Barq’s Root Beer and Minute Maid Lemonade fill the taps. Sweet Tea, Black Tea and Fuze Raspberry Iced Tea use the same three cup sizes. Calories climb with the cup, so a Large Coca-Cola reaches 510 against 270 for a Small.

Panda Express Bottled Drinks and Refresher

Bottles and one refresher make up the drinks in the first table, which prints a size alongside each calorie figure. Strawberry Dragonfruit Refresher arrives as a 24 oz large. Dasani, Powerade Berry Blast and Minute Maid Apple Juice fill the bottle cooler. Fourteen more drinks follow in a second table, with the size in the name where one is printed.

Fountain flavors and teas sit in their own section above, where every cup size carries its own calorie figure.

Panda Express Cub Meal for Kids

The Panda Cub Meal builds a smaller box from the same wok line. Each one pairs a junior entree with a base, a fruit side and bottled water or a kid’s juice. Orange Chicken, Teriyaki Chicken, Broccoli Beef and SweetFire Chicken Breast come preset, while Build Your Own Panda lets a child pick the scoop. Cub Meals list a price alone because the entree, base and drink each carry their own calorie figure.

Panda Express Family Meal

The Family Meal moves the same food into large containers meant to feed five. It holds any two large bases and three large entrees. Every entree comes from the wok line the same way a Bowl does. Swapping one entree for a premium scoop adds the surcharge listed in the premium table above.

Panda Express Catering Trays

Party trays scale the Panda Express menu up to a room rather than a table. A Party Size Entree serves twelve to fourteen, and a Party Size Base serves ten to twelve. Party Bundles pair entrees and bases with fortune cookies and scale by group size. Premium entrees cost more per tray than the standard line.

Panda Express Rewards

Panda Rewards sits inside the app and the website, and it tracks points against a phone number. Members collect ten points for every dollar spent on qualifying orders across the Panda Express menu. Redemption opens at two hundred points, low enough that one large order reaches it. Each month the first qualifying order also unlocks a Good Fortune Gift.

Panda Express Hours

Panda Express restaurants open in the late morning, because the wok line needs time to fill before the lunch rush. Most open at half past ten and run to half past nine at night, with an extra half hour on Friday and Saturday. Sunday tends to start later and close at the weekday hour. Mall, airport and campus units follow the hours of the building around them.

Panda Express Locations

Panda Express runs more than two and a half thousand restaurants across the United States, plus Puerto Rico and Guam. California holds close to a quarter of them on its own, and Texas comes next by a wide margin. Free-standing units with a drive-thru make up most of the estate, and each carries the full Panda Express menu. Mall food courts, airports and college campuses hold the rest.

What to Expect Inside a Panda Express

Panda Express puts the wok line in front of the customer, behind a glass hot bar rather than in a back kitchen. A server walks the tray down the counter, and you call each scoop as you reach it. Samples come off the line on request, so trying a scoop before choosing costs nothing.

Dining rooms run to tables, a fountain station and a counter for walk-in orders, with a drive-thru on most free-standing units. Fortune cookies sit by the till, one to a bag. The Panda Express menu reads the same at the counter, in the lane and in the app.

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