It's been a while since I've been to P.F. Chang's and I was craving some Chinese food so we decided to give it a try. I had done reservations through Open Table; we got there a little early, but they sat us right away. While headed to our table, I noticed all of the nice decorations and architecture that gave it an authentic Chinese feel.
They sat us at a nice clean table with a booth back. I went to the bathroom while my wife ordered drinks. The bathroom stalls are nice, clean, and roomy. The sink was sort of a trough style sink, but was very clean with a faucet, soap, and paper towel on both ends. I noticed the handicap stall had its own toilet, sink, and trash can and was also very clean.
I got back out to the table and saw that my wife had ordered some hot unsweetened green tea. It came in a small cast iron tea kettle on a small cast iron trivet. We were each given a small tea cup. We both also had water and there was lemon in a side dish. I tried the tea, but I'm not much for unsweetened green tea, however, my wife liked it and put some lemon in her cup.
While sitting at our table, we noticed the music playing didn't seem to match the location. It was light hip hop and R&B. Despite it not matching the location, it wasn't overwhelming and seemed to go with the overall feel of the place.
For food, we started with crab wontons to share and I had a cup of egg drop soup. The crab wontons are similar to crab Rangoon. There's crab meat, cream cheese and some seasoning inside hand wrapped wontons that have been deep fried, then they're placed on a long plate on top of a spicy sweet dim sum sauce that's been spread across it. They were excellent! Some crab Rangoon from other Chinese restaurants are mostly cream cheese. These were mostly crab, the wontons had the perfect crunch, and the sauce was a nice combination of sweet and spicy without being overpowering on either.
My egg drop soup was absolutely delicious! It was a sort of chicken broth base with bits of egg whites, small bits of shaved carrot, and a few bits of chopped green onion and it was nice and hot. Perfect for a chilly day! The server accidentally spilled a little bit of soup, but not on me, it was thankfully on a dish of its own, but not much spilled and she was very nice and apologetic about it.
For our main entrees, I ordered the pepper steak with steamed white rice and my wife ordered the sesame beef with brown rice.
The pepper steak had a nice hot kick to it with the spice. The steak was nice, juicy and tender bite size pieces, there were crunchy bits of brightly colored red and green bell peppers as well as tender slices of white onion all in a nice spicy sauce. I put the white rice in the dish with the pepper steak and mixed it all together before diving right in. It was perfectly spicy, cleared my sinuses...lol! I loved the flavor and texture of all the food stirred together. I got full at one point, so I was unable to finish, but it definitely was good!
My wife enjoyed her sesame beef and brown rice very much! I tried a bite of it and it was definitely tasty. It had tender bits of juicy beef, and bright, colorful pieces of green broccoli, bright red strips of pepper, and chunky slices of white onion. It looked delicious! I was almost jealous of her dish!
Our server was Angela and she was nice, friendly, professional, and very attentive. She checked on us often and made sure our waters were always topped off.
While we were eating, I wondered why the place seemed so slow with very few customers. It was a Friday night, in a normally very busy part of town, and they have great food. This is really not a restaurant you should miss!
We were given our check with a couple of lightly sweet and crunchy fortune cookies as soon as we were done eating and we left right after paying.
All in all a wonderful experience! read more