Panda Cuisine

5 Reviews on “Panda Cuisine”

• Hexawater

  This restaurant is a clip joint. Before placing order, must be find out price,What a rip – off? a plate costed $150 , Strongly no recommend bring your guests to dinner

  May 7, 2015, 11:18 pm

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• Danielbrown1

  Dry, bland, overpriced food. Avoid.

  September 26, 2013, 7:04 am

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• Kevin C Murray

  New owners don’t sell Dim Sum

  November 28, 2012, 6:33 pm

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• Lace Love

  Perfect Late Night Dining!. After driving by this place several times & noticing the ‘open’ sign lit up late, I finally decided to stop in. The dim sum is 10% off after 10 pm & it’s delicious. Try the Taro Fried Puffs, Steamed Shrimp Dumplings, Fried Chive & Shrimp Seaweed Wraps, & of course the custard pies! The Sweet & Sour Seabass (specials menu) is ONO & this is now a regular late night pit stop for us. Service is great, place is clean & visually pleasing, & is the best Chinese restaurant in the Ala Moana area!

  January 20, 2011, 2:13 am

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• Jive

  Good dim sum, but not worth the price. I had walked into this restaurant before, but had decided not to eat here because nothing on the menu really jumped out to me and because the prices were quite high for what seemed like standard Chinese fare ($13+ for most dishes). Having heard that their dim sum was very good, I decided to take another look at Panda Cuisine.As far as dim sum goes, I pretty much stick to a few standards– char siu bao, mochi rice, pork hash, half moon, etc. In truth, this is just what I would get at any manapua shop, so if you’re into the more extravagant items the dim sum cart has to offer, this review may not be the one for you.First up, the char siu bao was very good in my opinion. I have often had bao with rather dry and fatty char siu inside at restaurants, but Panda’s char siu was chunky, well-cooked, and had a nice sauciness to it. Definitely a stand out bao among dim sum joints. The bread was nice and soft, though a little flavorless (could have been sweeter).Instead of the standard mochi rice wrapped in lotus leaf, Panda Cuisine offers mochi fried rice, served as a small dome on a plate (not wrapped). Essentially, this dish is your standard fried rice (rice, egg, pork, green onion, etc.) except that glutinous mochi rice is used instead of standard calrose rice. Also of note, the fried rice was prepared in the local style, using dark brown shoyu (soy sauce) as opposed to standard Chinese fried rice which is mostly cooked with sesame oil. The flavors were good, though at a price of $4.50, the size of the dish was far too small.My party and I tried a few more items, but we all almost simultaneously came to the same conclusion: if we want good bao, pork hash, etc. We would have been much better off going somewhere that excels at those items such as Char Hung Sut, Royal Kitchen, or Libby’s. Prices for dim sum at Panda Cuisine start at $3.50 (for only 2 little char siu bao!) and go up from there, so it’s definitely priced at the high end for dim sum.If you want to sit down at a nice restaurant with good service for dim sum, then Panda Cuisine offers good quality, though at a higher than average price. For my money and taste buds though, you just can’t beat the above mentioned manapua shops for flavor and value.

  August 3, 2009, 3:38 am

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