P.F Chang’s sucks balls. Overpriced crap compared to good Chinese cuisine.
Totally disagree. P.F. Chang’s makes excellent food, including a good-sized gluten-free menu — gluten-free enough for celiacs.
On the West coast there is better Asian cuisine, since it is less Americanized, but these guys do it well.
I gave up trying to find “real” Asian food on travels in the US. I know it is out there but I can't stomach much of it.
OTOH, many Asian guests to Texas end up having me take them to Chinese buffets. Go figure!
I visited a PF Changs in KC a number of years ago for a business meeting and I left without finding anything significant about it. Was I jaded, no pun intended, because my father owned an about as authentic Chinese restaurant in Cincinnati during the early 70’s? The Kali-Kai in Blue Ridge.
I worked there on occasion while in school and learned from the Taiwanese cooks about what they ate that was not on the menu. Changs reminded me of going into a Taco Bell when looking for Mexican. To me, it was nothing more than a Yuppie joint with an oriental motif.
Right after 911, I went to Taiwan for a project to construct and commission a plant I was involved in the design. Big difference! Just to be said they waste nothing, Absolutely nothing and whatever your imagination could come up with, goes beyond that. Nowhere close to any “Chinese” restaurant in the US.
So, if you like your American food sprinkled with some oriental staples like bean sprouts and a little bok choy and a bottle of soy sauce on the table. Kewl, have at it, but like I said, I’m jaded.
Yuppie food.
When I want good Asian food I go to a family-owned restaurant of the particular ethnicity I am interested in.
If I go to a Korean restaurant and there are too many white faces in there then I know it’s not going to be that good.
“P.F Chang’s sucks balls. Overpriced crap compared to good Chinese cuisine.”
I’ll go with that. My favorite restaurant is near PF Chang’s. Comparing both there is simply no comparison. PFC is starchy garbage.