PF Changs

[Parkbandit]

OK.. my craving right now is for PF Changs Dan Dan Noodles. Like my mouth is literally watering right now.

45 minutes until kickoffs..... what to do...

[thefarmer]

There's a cheaper version of the chain that PF chang's owns and I think they do delivery. Damned if I remember what they're called, though.

[Mistomeer]

Pei Wei

[thefarmer]

Bingo.

They're almost as good as Changs, but about 2x cheaper.

[Sthrockmorton]

Pei Wei is the unbelievable in a pinch, wish i had one near me

[Gan]

Pei Wei FTW.

Thats like my favorite place to go for lunch.


Dan Dan Noodle Bowl http://www.peiwei.com/images/spicy.gif

6.50

Chile-seared garlic soy, minced chicken, scallion, bean sprouts, cucumber, egg noodles


http://www.peiwei.com/htmlmenu.htm



Miami, FL
Miami Lakes - Eagle Nest Center * (http://www.peiwei.com/thelocations.aspx?state=FL&loc=0166)
Miami - Kendall * (http://www.peiwei.com/thelocations.aspx?state=FL&loc=0150) Plantation - Veranda Shops (http://www.peiwei.com/thelocations.aspx?state=FL&loc=0136)
Weston - Weston Commons (http://www.peiwei.com/thelocations.aspx?state=FL&loc=0081)
Wellington - Wellington Green Square (http://www.peiwei.com/thelocations.aspx?state=FL&loc=0099)
Boynton Beach - Renaissance Commons (http://www.peiwei.com/thelocations.aspx?state=FL&loc=0080)
Boca Raton - Boca Raton 5th Ave (http://www.peiwei.com/thelocations.aspx?state=FL&loc=0156)

Naples
Naples - Collection @ Vanderbilt (http://www.peiwei.com/thelocations.aspx?state=FL&loc=0119)

Orlando
Orlando - Colonial (http://www.peiwei.com/thelocations.aspx?state=FL&loc=0076)

Port St. Lucie
Stuart - Stuart Center (http://www.peiwei.com/thelocations.aspx?state=FL&loc=0130)

Tampa
Tampa - South Tampa (http://www.peiwei.com/thelocations.aspx?state=FL&loc=0161)
Tampa - Mission Bell (http://www.peiwei.com/thelocations.aspx?state=FL&loc=0127)

* - Coming Soon



PF Changs is good for dinner type events.

[Parkbandit]

No Pei Wei delivers to me.. and I just called PF Chang's.. and the vents above their woks are not 'woking'.....................



MOTHER FUCKERS

[Gordd]

Wow, didn't know PF Chang's owned Pei Wei. Our PF Chang's got their three strikes the first time we ate there. Pei Wei on the other hand advertised hot and spicy, delivered hot and spicy, and was decently cheap. Nothing I hate more then having to go home and add a cup of Srirachi to something to get some heat. Still, there's gotta be other, better oriental places then McChang's.

[Parkbandit]

I have 2 local places that deliver... but their Dan Dan Noodles are McLame.

I don't want a whole dinner.. I JUST WANT THEM DAM DAN DANS DAMMIT!

[Gan]

Time to put on the apron.



Ingredients:
***Noodles***
1 teaspoon oil
1/4 ounce green onion, minced
1/2 teaspoon garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon chile paste
4 ounces ground chicken, cooked
1/4 ounce egg noodles, cooked
Cornstarch
***Liquid Mixture***
2 ounces soy sauce
1 ounce cooking wine
1 teaspoon oyster sauce
1 teaspoon sugar
7 ounces chicken stock

Heat wok or large skillet, add 1 tsp. oil and sear the chile paste, garlic and green onion for 5 seconds, using caution to avoid inhaling the direct fumes.

Add cooked ground chicken, tossing and stirring for 10 seconds. Add all the liquid ingredients and simmer for 20 seconds.

Add a "slurry," equal parts of cornstarch and water mixed together (a tsp. or two of each) to thicken the sauce. Consistency should be thick enough to stand on top of the noodles.

Pour sauce over a serving plate of hot cooked noodles. Garnish with bean sprouts and julienned cucumbers.

http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/525/PF_Changs_Dan_Dan_Noodles45479.shtml

[Sthrockmorton]

Time to put on the apron.
http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/525/PF_Changs_Dan_Dan_Noodles45479.shtml

I like your style

[Parkbandit]

Time to put on the apron.

http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/525/PF_Changs_Dan_Dan_Noodles45479.shtml


LOL.. I looked that up already (I got mine from recipezaar.com) but have about half of the ingredients...

[Skeeter]

I thought PF Chang's was horrendously over rated.

I ate there this summer and it was very average. The appetiser lettuce things we ate were the only redeaming part of the meal.

[Gordd]

LOL.. I looked that up already (I got mine from recipezaar.com) but have about half of the ingredients...

Poorly stocked pantry...What would Alton Brown say??

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I just had a blind date at PF Changs.

Lettuce wraps FTW.

[Sthrockmorton]

I thought PF Chang's was horrendously over rated.

I ate there this summer and it was very average. The appetiser lettuce things we ate were the only redeaming part of the meal.

Try it again, you may have just had bad luck...

[diethx]

PF Chang's hot n' sour soup is to die for, seriously.

[B2]

Cheesecake Factory's lettuce wraps are WAY better than PF Chang's.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Cheesecake Factory's lettuce wraps are WAY better than PF Chang's.

Seconded.

I just found out that a Cheesecake Factory opened up in West Hartford. I know where I'll be going a lot for the next few months, ha!

[Sean of the Thread]

PF Chang's is a mall that I hate... therefore I'll never go.


Die mall.

[Gelston]

I've never heard of PF Changs in my life.

[Asha]

x2 But I'm used to that here. :)

[Keller]

PF Chang's is an American-Chinese restaurant that decided to bump up their ingredients from "suspect" to "solid" from other American-Chinese restaurants and offer the "Casual American Bistro" dining ambiance for an "up-scale" chinese experience.

As you can see -- 20-40 yr old white suburbanites love it.

[Gan]

Yea, I'm not big on dog/cat meat either...

[Allereli]

They have a really good fried banana dessert, otherwise the food can be pretty bland.

[Jorddyn]

Time to put on the apron.


That looks awesome (never had it myself), but...



1/4 ounce egg noodles, cooked


Am I msising something here?

Oh, and if I could figure out how to do their lettuce wraps and Szechuan scallops, I'd never have to pay $30 to eat there again.

[Sean of the Thread]

As you can see -- 20-40 yr old white suburbanites love it.

* who like to waste money.

[diethx]

* who like to waste money.

No worse than the money you waste on destroying your liver, though, right?

[Celephais]

Seconded.

I just found out that a Cheesecake Factory opened up in West Hartford. I know where I'll be going a lot for the next few months, ha!
Seriously? Fucking awesome...

Never been to a PF Changs, had never heard of it either... I went into a place last week (Berlin Turnpike, near Dairy Queen) that I'd been to before and was surprised to see it was now an Italian/Chinese/Sportsbar combo restaurant. Higher class place, but you got two menus, a Chinese menu and an Italian menu... The sportsbar part was downplayed (at least in the dining section, I could only see two TVs), but they had a "General Tsao's Pizza" which was just awesome.

[Sean of the Thread]

No worse than the money you waste on destroying your liver, though, right?

Are you stupid or just plain retarded?

[Keller]

Higher class place, but you got two menus, a Chinese menu and an Italian menu...

:wtf:

[Parkbandit]

:wtf:


Are you confused because today is your birthday?

[Sean of the Thread]

Don't get me wrong the place is good.. the mall is snobby tho. If I'm spending money that should be invested for retirement on a meal it's gotta have some MOOO MOOO in it.

I'm not a big eater tho so my opinion is biased.

[Drew]

It'll weigh 9.2 courics.

[Sean of the Thread]

I don't get it? Katie Couric?

[Sean]

its from southpark.

[BigWorm]

Italian + Chinese = Marco Polo

This is actually a more common menu combination than you might think. I used to manage an Italian restaurant and our prep cook was an older Chinese man. He would often make appetizer specials such as crab rangoon (with REAL crab) or egg rolls that would go over really well.

I think P.F. Chang's capitalized on the fact that most Americans love Chinese food, but the vast majority of Chinese restaurants are crap. By using quality ingredients instead of the cheapest crap available, they offered a unique product and exploited the market.

I agree with a few other people that have noted that The Cheesecake Factory offers at least as good if not better Chinese(-American) food than P.F. Chang's. You just don't think of them because they have something else (cheesecake) to use as their gimmick.

[Celephais]

:wtf:
Higher class as in it's like... a reasonable Italian restaurant setup (above Olive Garden, not just a pizza place... very clean, no goofy shit on the walls, etc), yet like behind a partition is a clear/cut sportsbar setup... and instead of just free bread... you get free bread (fucking amazing bread) and crunchy noodles, with duck sauce and olive oil.

It was very very weird. It was pretty new too (had to have been, I was there not two months prior and it was just chinese), so I'm guessing they'll combine the menus eventually so you dont' flip through two.

[diethx]

Are you stupid or just plain retarded?

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[Sean of the Thread]

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Lol both wasn't an option but I'll accept it as your answer.

[Augie]

The best PF Changs is the PF Changs you don't have to pay for! My Regional VP is taking us out to dinner Wed. night there and yay for expensed meals! :grin:

[diethx]

Lol both wasn't an option but I'll accept it as your answer.

Actually my answer was more like, i've been bored to sleep by the generic insult you use when you have nothing witty to say.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

Seriously? Fucking awesome...

Never been to a PF Changs, had never heard of it either... I went into a place last week (Berlin Turnpike, near Dairy Queen) that I'd been to before and was surprised to see it was now an Italian/Chinese/Sportsbar combo restaurant. Higher class place, but you got two menus, a Chinese menu and an Italian menu... The sportsbar part was downplayed (at least in the dining section, I could only see two TVs), but they had a "General Tsao's Pizza" which was just awesome.

Weird, I went there last week too when the wait at Hops was like, a half hour.

Was pretty good actually, and I usually dislike Italian quite a bit!

[Sean of the Thread]

Actually my answer was more like, i've been bored to sleep by the generic insult you use when you have nothing witty to say.

Don't bother the matching wits race with me.. you might as well left your shoe laces at home.

I suggest you carry on.

Oh and have a nice day.

[TheEschaton]

Weird, I just drove on the Berlin Turnpike on my drive home to Boston from Baltimore (gotta love Merritt Parkway).

[Parkbandit]

I STILL have not fed my Dan Dan Noodle hunger yet... so at the advice of some of you, I will be stopping by Pei Wei - Mission Bell location to check it out.

It better be good... or else.

[Parkbandit]

Weird, I just drove on the Berlin Turnpike on my drive home to Boston from Baltimore (gotta love Merritt Parkway).

(I don't get it)