Panda Garden Buffet

• Restaurant: Panda Garden
• Location: 5136 N Montclair Plaza Ln
  Montclair, CA 91763 (909) 398-1838
• Atmosphere: Clean, busy, typical $7 Chinese buffet atmosphere.
• Bathroom: Average, a tad dirty.
• Date of visit: 2007
• Website: None

Chinese buffets are their own beast. Panda Garden Buffet like almost every other Chinese buffet does not include drinks with the meal. The price at this buffet is about $6.40, $8 bucks out the door. They offer a variety of Panda express Chinese food, “sushi,” American cuisine, and a salad bar.

Like most buffets in this category, you aren’t looking for quality, but a lot of decent Chinese food. Panda Garden delivers on this promise.

The Chinese food is your typical Chinese buffet food: Salt and pepper shrimp, chow mien, stir fried beef.

The Fried section offers sweet and sour chicken, egg rolls, “lobster roll” (i.e. a fried roll with imitation crab), and the classic crab Rangoon.

Panda Garden has the obligatory salad bar and American cuisine such as pizza, garlic bread, etc. I haven’t tried these items; why pizza at a Chinese buffet?

At Panda Garden, it gets pretty crowded which is a good thing for a buffet. This means the food comes out fresh because of the high turnover rate. Yes, the crab rangoon is crunchy!

Their “sushi” is of a solid quality and they use little rice, which means you can pound a lot of it.

As far as Chinese buffets go Panda Garden delivers on their promise of quality panda express type Chinese food and a rock bottom price. In my opinion it’s the best Chinese buffet in the area. This is the IE, there aren’t too many options when it comes to Asian food. I would return.