{"id":6357,"date":"2015-12-23T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T21:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/?p=6357"},"modified":"2016-01-19T11:48:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T19:48:42","slug":"annies-panda-garden-vallejo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/annies-panda-garden-vallejo\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie’s Panda Garden, Vallejo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sitting inside Annie’s Panda Garden, only a 10-minute drive from my old high school, it has brought back all the memories of me working here as a teenager. The restaurant has barely changed over the years, with a family diner style dining space filled with both booths and tables, decorated with random paintings and artifacts for reminding diners of their being at a Chinese restaurant. Even the menu has remained the same with the prices gone up only a little bit. 15 years ago a sweet and sour pork lunch special was $2.95 which came with fried rice and chicken corn soup, today it is $4.35, a deal hardly exists in San Francisco. Welcome to the Suburbs! \u00a0Even the tastes of the dishes are\u00a0still\u00a0the same. Our Honey Walnut Prawns<\/strong>, Lemon Chicken<\/strong>, and Snow Peas with Scallops<\/strong>, might sound the typical Americanized Chinese dishes, but they are nicely prepared with fresh ingredients.<\/p>\n

You probably cant’t find mayo and deep fried walnut used in any Chinese\u00a0home cooking, but in California, \u00a0Honey Walnut Prawns<\/strong> ($9.75)is such a popular and luxury seafood dish at Chinese restaurants. The prawns are lightly breaded and deep fried to perfection. But the dish could use a few more pieces honey coated fried online levitra <\/a> walnuts.<\/p>\n

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Honey Walnut Prawns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scallops with Snow Peas<\/strong> ($10.95) is probably the most Cantonese dish here, with a quick stir fry that preserves the freshness of the ingredients, and a light gravy to put a shine on the dish – both very traditional Cantonese cooking techniques.<\/p>\n

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Scallops with Snow Peas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My favourite has to be Lemon Chicken<\/strong> ($7.75) – a couple chicken fillets breaded, deep fried to golden, sliced, and coated with a blonde translucent sauce that’s perfectly balanced with sweetness and acidity. It is seemingly simple but it requires some seriously skills to make it so pretty and tasty.<\/p>\n

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Lemon Chicken<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Annie’s Panda Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also had a warm welcome from Annie and Danton, the husband and wife who had been running\u00a0this neighbourhood favourite for almost 20 years. I could\u00a0still see their passion and genuineness in the quality of their dishes, and it was\u00a0such a heart felt moment .<\/p>\n

Annie’s Panda Garden is also easily spotted on Interstate 80, and only a walk distance from all the hotels near Six Flag Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, in case anyone craves for some good ole Chinese food in the area.<\/p>\n

Location and other reviews:<\/p>\n

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Sitting inside Annie’s Panda Garden, only a 10-minute drive from my old high school, it has brought back all the memories of me working here as a teenager. The restaurant has barely changed over the years, with a family diner style dining space filled with both booths and tables, decorated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[100,97,232],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/image-53.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6357"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6435,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions\/6435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pickydiners.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}