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Green Panda, Panda Bar combine Chinese flair, old-style American

Green Panda, 600 Elm Place, Highland Park, serves homemade Old World Egg Rolls, which come with barbecue pork, shrimp or vegetables for $6. photos by Christa Rooks/22nd Century Media
The Crab Rangoon is filled with Philadelphia cream cheese, crab meat and scallion.
The Orange Chicken ($9) is blended and stir-fried with broccoli, bell pepper and onion in a slightly spicy/tangy sauce.
Vegetables sauteed in plum sauce, or The Buddha Vegetable Tofu, checks in at $8.

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Chris Pullam, Assistant Editor
12:24 pm PST February 4, 2016

Not many Chinese restaurants include a fully-stocked bar with its own American-style menu.

Enter Green Panda, located at 600 Elm Place, Highland Park, and owner Brian Batt.

Batt grew up in the Glenview/Northbrook area, attended Maple School in Northbrook and graduated from Glenbrook North in 1992 and the University of Michigan in 1996. According to Batt, the corner of Elm and Second, where Green Panda has existed for the past year, has housed Chinese restaurants for 40-50 years.

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