I am really p.o'd. about this:
I was a latecomer to Panda Express. We only had it in the local mall, and I figured it was "only" a mall type of chain and I just put off trying it. Also, in my mall-going days, I didn't apparently go there very often on an empty stomach, and I hadn't had a "mall meal" in some years. So it wasn't until just a few years ago that I had finally had it with all the recommendations, and I made a point of going in and eating it, right there, hot and fresh.
It was delicious, and I vowed to be a stranger no more.
And then Covid happened, and no one went anywhere for months. And in the meantime they were renovating the food court at the mall, and then I read that the Panda Express was closing. That was several months ago, and I just checked again, and the closest one to me now is some 25-30 miles away. I can't get their website to just give me a complete list of locations; you have to search one area at a time. Idiots. So -- a mall near Milford, CT; then Yonkers, the Bronx, and Broadway at 111th St. Those are the closest ones they give me for my zip code, damn it to HELL.