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Panda Express Logo Panda Inn Logo. Panda Restaurant Group, Inc. is the parent company of Panda Inn, Panda Express and Hibachi-San.It was founded by Andrew and Peggy Tsiang Cherng [4] and Andrew's father, Master Chef Ming-Tsai Cherng; the family originated from the Yangzhou region of China's Jiangsu province.
Panda Express is an American fast food restaurant chain that specializes in American Chinese cuisine.With over 2,400 locations, [3] it is the largest Asian-segment restaurant chain in the United States, [4] [5] and is mainly located in North America and Asia. [6]
Cherng was born in April 1948 in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, Republic of China on the northern bank of the Yangtze River. [5] His father was Ming-Tsai Cherng, a chef. He and his family moved to Taiwan after the Kuomintang was defeated on mainland China at the end of the Chinese Civil War, [1] and in 1963, his family moved to Yokohama, Japan, where his father had taken a job as a chef.
Panda Inn is a chain of sit-down Chinese restaurants in California owned and operated by the Panda Restaurant Group. [1] [2] [3]The company's original founding goal was to bring new varieties of Chinese cuisine, such as Mandarin cuisine and Sichuan cuisine dishes, to Southern California, which had traditionally favored Chinese Cantonese cuisine.
Peggy Tsiang Cherng (pronounced / ˈ tʃ ɜːr ŋ /, born 1947/1948) is an American billionaire businesswoman and computer scientist who co-founded Panda Express in 1983 and is the co-chief executive officer of Panda Restaurant Group.
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3. Kung Pao Chicken. Price: $4.90 a la carte Of all the Panda Express dishes that claim to be spicy, kung pao chicken is the only one that actually might live up to its claim.
The date of the founding of Panda Inn, Panda Express' predecessor, by Andrew Cherng, is listed as 1973. There is a link to his father, Master Chef Ming Tsai Cherng, that leads to the article about Ming Tsai, Food Network host, whose birthday is listed as March 29, 1964.