Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Classic Chinese American dishes at the newly remodeled Panda Inn in Pasadena include mapo tofu, top left, lion's head meatballs, ...

Long before the Cherng family owned a national fast food empire that sells a reported 110 million pounds of orange chicken a year, it owned a single Chinese restaurant in the sleepy city of Pasadena.

Servers at the newly reopened Panda Inn restaurant in Pasadena glide around the dining room with massive trays hoisted over their shoulders, each one overflowing with platters of orange chicken, bowls ...