The other reviews for this restaurant must be talking about a different place than I am about to review because my recent experience here was fairly bad.
I've lived in the area for about 30 years, ordered from the Panda Garden that was here, worked at the next door Pizza shop for a few summers as a kid.
First things first: the parking lot needs work done. It looks like they had a "discount asphalt paver" come in and do it, it's clearly messed up. The building is old, and the outside definitely needs some TLC and it's very nondescript.
Next, you walk in to the small room, with not many tables, and there's absolutely nothing to absorb sound. No carpet, nothing on the walls, no background music, just echos. You can hear every word being spoken at every table. Imagine a 25ft x 25ft concrete room.
If everyone was having quiet conversations, it would probably be tolerable, but the owner was going around interrupting everyone to tell them about the place, and contributed to about half of the noise. I came to eat, not to listen.
The fresh brewed iced tea was clearly made with unfiltered tap water, and tastes like it.
The mixed seafood bowl I had was bland and tasteless. All of the seafood was overcooked. There wasn't so much as surface-level seasoning on anything.
My dining partner had some type of pasta with meat sauce. There wasn't any visible meat in the sauce.
Service was on par with the "How ya' doin'?"-side and most of the drinks were bottles from their cooler. I felt like I was in a deli or something. Everyone we ran into tried to oversell their food, including telling us that "the chef made that fresh YESTERDAY." Well, it probably isn't FRESH today, then, right?