What to order · Updated September 2026
What to Order at P.F. Chang's: Every Item, Judged
P.F. Chang's has quietly become an expensive restaurant. Entrées now run $21 to $35, which puts a two-person dinner with an appetizer near three figures before drinks. Prices below are 2026 delivery-menu prices from a benchmark U.S. location; dine-in usually runs a few dollars lower, and your city will vary either way.
Two things drive every verdict here. First, the September 2025 menu overhaul added genuinely good cheap items — garlic noodles, half-size appetizers — while pushing the famous dishes past $30. Second, the calorie numbers on the menu board are per serving, and P.F. Chang's counts every entrée, appetizer and dessert as two servings. The figures below are full-order totals, which is what actually lands on your table.
Every item, judged
Chang's Chicken Lettuce Wraps
Order itStill the reason people pick this place. Minced chicken, mushrooms and water chestnuts that keep their snap, and at 660 calories for the full order it's the most restrained appetizer on the page — the crispy green beans sitting next to it are 1,000. Two people and a bowl of rice can call it dinner.
Garlic Noodles
Order itAdded in the 2025 menu overhaul and immediately the best value on the page. $14.29 for chili-spiced butter, real garlic and enough noodles to eat like an entrée — Pad Thai costs $7.60 more for a worse ratio. It's also the rare dish here that reheats well the next day.
Chang's Spicy Chicken
Order itIf you order one entrée, order this one. The sweet-spicy chili glaze has actual heat behind the sugar, which is more than Mongolian Beef manages for eight dollars more. At 1,060 calories for the full order, the two-servings note on the menu isn't a suggestion.
Chicken with Broccoli
Order itThe one entrée you can finish alone without regret. 480 calories for the whole order — less than half of Chang's Spicy Chicken at the identical $22.79. Ginger-garlic aromatics, green onion, steamed broccoli. Plain by design, and one of the few plates here that doesn't finish with a sugar hit.
Kung Pao Brussels Sprouts
Order itBest side on the menu and it isn't close. Wok-charred sprouts, chili pods, peanuts, and enough Kung Pao sauce to matter. It costs $1.20 more than the edamame, which is a sentence the edamame should be embarrassed about.
Dynamite Shrimp
DecentGood tempura shrimp, good sriracha aioli, gone in four minutes. The trouble is the $17.99 — same price as the lettuce wraps, more than the garlic noodles that could have been your actual dinner. Order it when someone else is picking up the check.
Singapore Street Noodles
Decent52 grams of protein for $21.89 is the best protein-per-dollar figure on the menu, and the light curry sauce is a real break from the sweet-glaze crowd. It's also 224 grams of carbs. Split it.
The Great Wall of Chocolate
DecentSix layers, 1,940 calories, arrives like a piece of furniture. Nobody orders it because it's the best dessert in the building — they order it because of the reaction it gets. Fine. Just don't order it for two people.
Mongolian Beef
Skip itThe signature dish is now $30.49. What arrives is thin flank steak in a sweet soy glaze — the glaze is good, the beef is an afterthought, and the whole thing is portioned as two servings. Chang's Spicy Chicken is $7.70 cheaper and more interesting on every bite.
Crispy Honey Chicken
Skip itThe heaviest entrée P.F. Chang's sells, at 1,380 calories — more than the Pad Thai. Battered chicken in honey sauce has a habit of arriving fused into one sweet brick, and reviewers keep reporting exactly that. Orange Chicken is $1.30 less and holds its crunch.
Crispy Green Beans
Skip itA thousand calories and 78 grams of fat. Of green beans. The tempura is competent and the dipping sauce is better than it needs to be, but you're paying $13.99 to eat a vegetable that has been converted entirely into something else. The Brussels sprouts are cheaper and less than half the calories.
Edamame
Skip it$11.79 for steamed soybeans and kosher salt. The 36 grams of protein is the only argument in its favor and it's a thin one, since the Singapore Street Noodles beat it on protein and everything else. Put the money toward a real appetizer.
Frequently asked
What is the best thing to order at P.F. Chang's?
Chang's Spicy Chicken at $22.79 is the best entrée — the chili glaze has genuine heat, unlike most of the sweet-sauce dishes around it. Pair it with Garlic Noodles ($14.29) rather than a second entrée and two people eat well for about $37 before drinks. Skip the Mongolian Beef; at $30.49 it's the worst value on the menu.
Why do P.F. Chang's calorie counts look so low?
Because they're per serving, and P.F. Chang's counts every appetizer, salad, entrée, noodle dish and dessert as two servings. Its own nutrition guide says so in a line most people never read. Chang's Spicy Chicken is listed at 530 calories and arrives as a 1,060-calorie plate; Crispy Honey Chicken reads 690 and lands at 1,380.
Is P.F. Chang's lunch a better deal than dinner?
Yes, and by a wide margin. Weekday lunch specials run $16.59 to $18.89 and include a starter plus rice or noodles, against $21 to $35 for a dinner entrée on its own. The portions are smaller, but for one person the lunch special is close to a full dinner entrée once you account for the two-serving math.