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PF Chang’s frozen food takes up a lot of real estate in the frozen aisle these days. They sell snacky stuff like frozen egg rolls and frozen dumplings, skillet meals to feed a whole family, and individual frozen meals. What are the best PF Chang’s frozen meals? Welp, we tasted a lot of them in two separate taste tests and are here to tell you.
Full disclosure: I’ve only eaten at PF Chang’s a few times and I pretty much only get the lettuce wraps and hot and sour soup. Here’s how I’m making myself (and you, hopefully) feel better about my relative lack of familiarity with the source material: A bunch of the dishes you’re about to read about don’t even appear to be on the menu at PF Chang’s. So I didn’t judge these meals on how closely they hew to their restaurant counterparts; I judged them on whether they taste good or whether they taste bad.
Currently, there are ten PF Chang’s frozen meals on the market and we were able to find nine of them near us. And in our most recent taste test, we tried eight PF Chang’s skillet meals and two varieties of their frozen egg rolls. Here’s our take on all the best frozen PF Chang’s meals.
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Best PF Chang’s Skillet Meals
- PF Chang’s Beef & Broccoli
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We love this PF Chang’s skillet meal, not because it’s amazing but because it tastes almost exactly like beef and broccoli from a Chinese takeout spot, which doesn’t have to be amazing to be delicious. The broccoli is soft and takes on a lot of the brown, savory sauce. If you’re ever confronted with making a choice between this PF Chang’s frozen meal and their Mongolian Beef, keep in mind that the sauce that accompanies the Beef & Broccoli is so much better than the Mongolian beef sauce, which weirdly tastes like fruity wine. But if you’re in the mood for pretty authentic-tasting Chinese takeout but don’t want to futz with Grubhub fees, PF Chang’s Beef & Broccoli will hit the spot, promise. (Just add your own white rice.)
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- PF Chang’s Honey Chicken
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Okay, so this PF Chang’s frozen meal is not actually a skillet meal—it’s more like a component to a meal you make yourself. Like, if you boil some rice and roast some broccoli and then toss it with this after it’s been air fried, then you’re in business. But I’m lumping it with the skillet meals and you just have to live with that. The chicken morsels reminded us of Wendy’s chicken nuggets. The sauce is GOOD. It doesn’t have that cloying fake honey flavor—it’s just sweet and savory and really interesting. And it tastes INCREDIBLE with the greasy chicken breading, which isn’t too thick at all. My colleague Justine Sterling particularly loved how thin and crispy the breading is—which you can’t say for a lot of frozen chicken nugs. Also important to note: We liked this a lot better than the PF Chang’s Orange Chicken, which is good for frozen orange chicken, but not as good as a lot of other frozen PF Chang’s meals.
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- PF Chang’s Shrimp Lo Mein
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The individual, microwavable portion of PF Chang’s chicken lo mein is one of our faves (keep reading for more on that), so it wasn’t a huge surprise that we liked the skillet meal lo mein so much. The sauce is savory and tasty, and there’s some cabbage in the mix to contribute crunch. One note: Give us more shrimp, dammit! They’re small and there aren’t enough of them, but when you get one, they’re nice! They’re firm rather than mushy and they don’t taste too fishy. Quantity is the issue, not quality. We’ll take it.
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- PF Chang’s Chicken Lo Mein
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As I said, PF Chang’s Chicken Lo Mein was one of our favorite individual, microwavable PF Chang’s frozen meals—and the skillet meal version is definitely better. The chicken is surprisingly good and there’s plenty of it. I don’t personally have any use for the carrot batons, but the edamame are a nice touch. The star here is the sauce. It’s super savory and almost roasty tasting. It’s like a cross between peanut butter sauce and a savory Chinese takeout-style brown sauce. Oh, and the shitake mushrooms really add a lot of savory flavor! If you’re making dinner for the whole fam, this is the best PF Chang’s frozen meal to buy.
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Best PF Chang’s Frozen Appetizers
- PF Chang’s Mini Chicken Egg Rolls
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We’ve had PF Chang’s egg rolls before, but their mini egg rolls (which were new info for me) are better. Sure, the wrapper is a little thick, but the chicken filling is so dang juicy! I cooked these in the air fryer and they came out great. I’d definitely buy these again.
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Best PF Chang’s Individual Meals
- Drunken Noodles
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If you live in a place where you can’t get actual Thai food, this is one of the PF Chang’s frozen dinners that will do in a pinch. The noodles are decent and the basil sauce actually tastes pretty good. The flavorless bell peppers are a letdown, but the spinach is nice. Justine gave this a very enthusiastic “that’s not bad” when she took a bite, and it doesn’t get much better than that when it comes to individually packaged PF Chang’s frozen meals.
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- Chicken Lo Mein
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Chicken lo mein is one of my favorite foods. Hey look, I even talked about it on an episode of Good Mythical Morning. This PF Chang’s frozen dinner doesn’t resemble lo mein from a restaurant, but I warmed up to it as I continued to take bites. You know when you go to a mall food court and get Chinese food and it tastes like the best thing ever even though it’s not very good? That’s what this is like. Honestly, the noodles are great. They’re very springy and have lots of chew. But the sauce is what really makes this one great (as PF Chang’s frozen meals go). It tastes like lo mein. It’s super savory and garlicky. There are wet carrots and sad chicken, but the sauce really makes the shortcomings tolerable. This is one of two PF Chang’s frozen dinners I would actually consider buying again.
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- Spicy Sichuan Style Chicken
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If you’ve ever had actual Sichuan food, you’re probably familiar with the concept of ma la (aka hot and numbing) seasoning. While this PF Chang’s Sichuan Style Chicken doesn’t really resemble anything you’d get at a Sichuan restaurant, it’s the best of PF Chang’s frozen meals, in part because it actually pulls off that ma la flavor. I swear, you can actually taste and feel the tingle from Sichuan peppercorns. It’s pretty spicy, too (you can see the red pepper flakes throughout). The sauce is savory and smells super mushroomy. And, again, the lo mein noodles just taste so much better than rice in these meals. If you’re hell bent on buying PF Chang’s frozen meals, make sure this is one of them.
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