Opanda - Mérignac

Visited whilst staying in area before flying from bordeaux adjacent and local to the areas hotels. Standard French format for chinese, pay your money and eat as much as you like. If you get there about 19.00 food is not really warm. After 20.00 is...better. Nice touch having all the fresh fruit for desert. A bit more expensive than normal French Chinese, I normally pay about 19€ for meal and max 2 drinks. This one charges about 24€

This is a chinese restaurant with a lot of starters, main dishes (hot or cold, fish or meat). less than 2km from Merignac airport you enter in a buffet restaurant. You ask to the waitress (or waiter) for a place and take anytime all you...want to eat. You have to request drink at the desk . A special attention to the wok food . Good and unsophisticated food.

Heading to Bordeaux Merignac airport you normally take exit 11b but take 11a leads down to a roundabout and you will find Opanda Chinese/Asian restaurant. Airport then is only 4 mins away. Chinese restaurant where you can eat your fill, lunch 13.90 and dinner 19.90...euros so is great value. Service, OK but it's self service , I think you can have waiter service also. Variety of starters is extensive and are tasty. Mains, again lots of choices but can taste bland with heavy use of batter and deep fried, Buy hey, that suits some people also. You can eat as much as you can and some people do..... Deserts are not great but again it is what it is. We've tasted fresher produce in other similar restaurants . Outside terrace is nice.

Went this evening, quite busy and the staff were quite pleasant. The food was luke warm and very bland. I asked for a spicier Thai stir fry and was given something that was at vindaloo level of hotness ! I sampled the sweet and sour...pork cold and the boiled rice was taken into the back, changed into special fried rice but the staff were putting the the hot food on top, which makes me wonder if some of the food has been there since lunch time ! Buffet and beer was 23.70 euros ! I wouldn't recommend this to anyone !

This being our second visit, shall hesitate before going again.Our first visit good but this last one not very good, food rather cld and bland in flavour.Handy as nearby our hotel but shall give it a mss in future, sorry as we do enjoy a good Chinese?