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| - This dinner brought back a lot of Dubai memories. My first experience of P.F. Chang's was actually in Dubai many years ago. When it first opened, the wait for a table could have been anywhere from 1-2 hours, and people waited! That's because the food was always delicious!!
This is the first time I tried P.F. Chang's in the valley. I did happen to try their Greenville, SC branch prior to moving to Arizona as well.
We called in to reserve a table, they said there were no reservations. What you are doing by "calling ahead" is getting your name on the wait list. The wait was supposed to be 30-35 min when I called. I thought the wait started from the time you called in, kinda like other restaurants but the lady corrected me to say "no, your wait time starts when you check-in".
About 10 minutes after the call, we arrived at the restaurant and checked-in. I'm glad that even though we were very hungry, we agreed to the 30-35 min wait because we were seated in about 5-7 min!
The restaurant was pretty full when we arrived (we got there at around 8). There are reviews on Yelp previously complaining about how dark the place is and it normally would be (because that's how every P.f. Chang is) but it wasn't. It seems as though the restaurant management took the comments into consideration and the restaurant was well lit up.
My husband and I went through the menu and it had most of the dishes I was used to. We ordered the dynamite shrimp, the vegetable Lo Mein, Mongolian beef as well as Kung Pao chicken and brown rice on the side. The server was very helpful. When I first asked how spicy the dynamite shrimp was (because I know it was pretty spicy in Dubai) he let me try the sauce separately before I put the order in. It was pretty good and had the nice kick I was used to but I started coughing (embarrassing!) so he decided to bring us the sauce on the side.
The dynamite shrimp came out in record time! It was however served in a regular plate and it felt like it had too much batter, I felt I was eating more batter than the shrimp. I wish they served it the way they did in Dubai, in cocktail glasses! It looked so impressive and it tasted like the bomb!! Every single time I was in he restaurant, every single table would have one of them. We even sometimes ordered one each!
The food came out a little later. Everything looked pretty good but the portions seemed smaller than what I was used to. We dug in. Everything tasted good. The heat level was just right for all the dishes and the noodles were very tasty.
Overall, our experience was pretty good. The service was excellent and our server was nice and checked in on us. The restaurant is nicer than most restaurants on our side of town which is a good change. 4 stars because although everything was good, in comparison to Dubai, the Dubai branch beats this branch on flavor.
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