Panda d'Or - Laval

This restaurant has been renamed Panda Peng. We generally go for lunch if we are shopping in the Laval area. If it is late afternoon, we pick up a take out order to bring home for dinner. For the price of McDonald's you can have a great meal with soup and main course. Check the items on the laminated card for the best values.

We entered the front door and the man who seems to be the manager did not even walk us to the take out counter he just raised his two fingers and gave us a type of gesture that seemed like he was saying come here. Very impolite. When I arrived at the take out counter I said hi and he winked at me... Very unprofessional and he smelled like an ash tray. So it was time to take my order and there was such a big confusion on my California roll. I explained to him clearly that I just wanted to add tempura to it. He though tempura was shrimp... He has to ask the sushi chef to clarify all the confusion and he kept on insisting that it was shrimp. Will not be back because of my whole experience.

Of countless restaurants I've been to and in different countries, this by far was the worst experience. A near-death exp. is more pleasant! food was awful, fried, oily, funny-tasting, the rice felt like rotten. Anything but healthy. I can write an newspaper long! The service was super awful. No words can describe this dreadful experience! Avoid at all costs, avoid like rabies...

We sit down in a booth, after 5 minutes waiter brings us the menu. It was about 5 by 7 inches and the size of the letters was so small it was extremely hard to read.I suggested to both the waiter and a lady who claimed she was the owner that the spend some more money and redo the menu larger and easier to read.We order the number 2 combo which is supposed to come with pineapple chicken, won ton soup, fried rice, vegetables and spare ribs.He brings the vegetables and a plate with strips of fried something. I mention to him that they are not pineapple chicken and he argues with me that they are. He goes back to the kitchen and comes back with a bowl of fried balls and a bowl of orange colored sauce - the pineapple chicken, which was hard to cut (thank G-d I was not using chop sticks!) was tasteless and cold. The rice he did not bring, he goes to another table to serve and I had to get up and remind him to get us our rice that he forgot.In my opinion, the food tasted like they got everything precooked in bulk and just reheated it.It was not until I got home that I realized he also forgot to bring our order of spare ribs.Don't waste your time going to this restaurant, they are not very professional and the food is lousy!

Uninspired decor but at least the place was clean, we sat at a booth and were immediately explained the 3 menus and our glasses were filled with cold water. One menu was for sushi, another menu was an all you can eat for 25.99$ and the third was a la carte. Since it was our first time there we decided on the a la carte menu, one entree was priced at 12.95$ and the other two were13.95$, all 3 of our dishes included the soup.Just a few minutes after we gave our order, the waiter brought our soups which were very tasty and left us with great expectations for what was to follow that arrived about two minutes after our soup bowls were taken away.All our dishes looked similar except for the meat and sauces, all the entrees were a very good size portion and had white rice with an eggroll placed on top, the dishes weren't served with a medley of vegetables, it was solely cabbage with "one" broccoli floret.The rice was not under seasoned but totally tasteless and UN-seasoned and felt like we were eating chopped up gyprock; the eggroll was disappointing, the wrapper was bound so tightly that it was the width of a thumb it actually gave a whole new meaning to eggROLL,and had nearly no filling whatsoever, aside from a good crunch when taking a bite, it was just like chewing on a gob of fried dough, let's just say that that one bite was enough and the rest of the eggroll was left on the side of our plates. We tasted each other's dishes, the lemon chicken had been golden fried but was bland and greasy, the sauce was served on the side; both the beef a l'orange and the general Tao chicken also had been golden fried and laden with sauce. Can't say that these sauces were delicious, or some other adjective that would describe them to be tasty enough to make us want to come back for more,plainly speaking, they were just "ok", and did the job of masking the greasiness of our fried meat well enough. We didn't linger for any beverage, we just wanted to leave.Would we ever go back? heck NOOO,not even for sushi, let's just say that it was a memorable meal for the wrong reasons.Total bill with tip came out to 54.96$