This Panda Express benefits from being shiny and new. Most of the items have seemed fresh when I have eaten here, but occasionally the fried chicken pieces taste more like a fried piece of a fried piece of something. It does seem like this franchise has made an effort to provide more vegetables and healthy options, so kudos to that.
One small trick here is that the fountain drink station is around the corner from the register and is not easily visible. What you see are individual bottled beverages by the register and nothing else. I noticed others being confused by this and plumping for a more expensive bottled beverage when they were not aware of the fountain station.