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, shrimp and tofu scoops over chow mein, fried rice, quinoa brown fried 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. Each row carries a price and a calorie figure for one item at one serving, with the box size deciding how many scoops go in.

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 side, and it is the first question the server asks. A Bowl takes one side and one entree, a Plate carries a second, a Bigger Plate a third. Calorie totals swing hard across the Panda Express menu, because Super Greens lands at a fraction of a scoop of fried rice.

Panda Express Premium Entree Upcharge

Four 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. Honey Walnut Shrimp arrives as tempura shrimp in a creamy glaze, finished with candied walnuts. Black Pepper Sirloin Steak comes seared with baby broccoli and mushrooms.

Panda Express Chicken Entrees and Calories

Chicken carries the widest stretch of the wok line, from breaded and sauced through grilled and sliced. The Original Orange Chicken is battered dark meat tossed in a sweet chilli and orange glaze. Nothing else on the Panda Express menu sells like it. It also anchors the off-menu builds. Grilled Teriyaki Chicken and String Bean Chicken Breast run the lighter end, both carrying the Wok Smart mark for leaner cooking.

Panda Express Beef, Steak and Rib Entrees

Beijing Beef takes crisped strips of beef through a tangy sauce with bell pepper and onion. Broccoli Beef keeps that same cut plain. Wok-tossed with broccoli florets in a ginger soy sauce, it holds the lowest calorie figure of any beef scoop on the board. Shanghai Boneless Ribs and the Mongolian Ribeye Steak fill the heavier end.

Panda Express Shrimp, Steak and Fish Entrees

Shrimp reaches the wok already tempura-battered on most builds, then drops straight into sauce so the coating holds its crunch. Honey Walnut Shrimp is the one people queue for. Steamed Ginger Fish skips the fryer entirely, arriving poached with ginger and scallion at the lightest calorie count in the group.

Panda Express Tofu Entrees

Tofu covers the meat-free end of the wok line. Eggplant Tofu braises cubes of tofu with eggplant and red bell pepper in a sweet, savoury sauce that clings to every piece. Tofu Stir Fry keeps its sauce lighter and leans on the vegetables instead. Both scoops undercut the chicken line on calories.

Panda Express Sides, Rice and Noodles

Chow Mein is wheat noodle tossed with onion, celery and cabbage, and it goes under most boxes by default. Fried Rice brings peas, carrot and egg through the same wok. Super Greens swaps all of that for broccoli, kale and cabbage. The gap in calories between them is the widest on the board.

Panda Express Appetizers and the Apple Pie Roll

Rolls and potstickers come out of the fryer basket rather than the wok, which is why they hold their crunch in a bag. Cream Cheese Rangoon is wonton wrapper folded round a cream cheese filling, sold three at a time, and it declares milk and egg. Apple Pie Roll closes an order with cinnamon apple inside that same wrapper.

Panda Express Refreshers and Brewed Teas

Brewed tea and the fruit refreshers pour from their own tap beside the fountain. Peach Lychee Flavored Refresher and Watermelon Mango Flavored Refresher both land over ice. Sweet Tea and Black Tea come out of the same brewer, one sweetened and one left plain, and the calorie gap between them is enormous.

Panda Express Fountain and Bottled Drinks

Fountain taps run the Coca-Cola line, with a bottle cooler standing beside the register. Coca-Cola, Sprite, Dr Pepper and Fanta Orange fill most cups ordered off the Panda Express menu. Bottled water, sparkling lychee, three Minute Maid juices and a can of Monster Energy cover anyone walking past the fountain altogether.

Panda Express Cub Meal for Kids

The Panda Cub Meal builds a smaller box from the same wok line, pairing one junior entree with one junior side. A drink and a fortune cookie come with it. Build Your Own Panda lets a child pick the scoop. Its calorie figure therefore covers a span rather than a single number.

Panda Express Family Meal

The Family Meal moves the same food into large containers meant to feed a table of four or five. Three large entrees sit alongside two large sides. Every one of them is chosen from the wok line the same way a Bowl is. Swapping one entree for a premium scoop lifts the whole figure.

Panda Express Catering Trays

Party trays scale the Panda Express menu up to a room rather than a table. A Party Size Entree holds roughly twelve to sixteen servings of a single scoop, and a Party Size Side matches it. Bundles pair trays together and finish with fortune cookies.

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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