Yí Hé - Silver Spring

This was one of the best Chinese dinners ever. Piles of fresh vegetables, we’ll prepared and spiced. We had the shrimp in brown sauce and the sesame chicken. Also the green beans with garlic.

After our favorite Chinese restaurant closed, we decided to try SILVER FOUNTAIN, and we'll never go back! The rest rooms are filthy and the food awful. My wife ordered the tofu and I the kung pao chicken. The tofu looked great, but was tasteless, and the kung pao chicken was comprised of fillers canned peas, green peppers, red peppers and oh, yes, chicken, but precious little of it. How can you call it kung pao chicken and only include a few pieces of chicken? The primary ingredients were peas, then peanuts. The least ingredient was, of course, chicken. I HATE peas and have never had them in a Chinese meal. Why not call it kung pao peas? The only good thing we had were the egg rolls. Very fresh, though we can't vouch you'll get a fresh one if there's a soggy one lying around. The restaurant's menu items seem to be based on cheap fillers. Stay away.

May2023: 4: I visited this location as a result of an invitation to a graduation party in the restaurant. The graduate decided that she wanted to eat several items, many of which were her favorite items. This location had a variety of decent menu selections. We had varied types of eaters in our group. The service was really good. One or two of the selections were not adequately prepared and one beef based item was sour. You can see the huge selection of food we enjoyed for the party.

I was so excited to go to silver fountain after not going in over 20 years, but i was extremely disappointed. there were only 2 other tables at dinner time so that should have been a clue. i got Szechuan beef which had no flavor, but that's not even the bad part. the bad part was my waitress kept disappearing and i had to ask the hostess for some spicy sauce and my check. the lady that was behind us finally yelled out to the waitress excuse me, i need some attention. i didn't give my waitress feedback on the food because she never came back. once the hostess got her for my check, she asked if i needed a box and i said no. she disappeared again and i paid by cash in order to not have to wait for my charge to process. mens restroom was not clean and apparently had not been cleaned since their opening of the restaurant. not a fun experience and i was so disappointed because it used to be so good. should have stuck to my original plan which was going to be stained glass pub.

We might be a bit late, close to 2pm, for dimsum on Saturday. We got no-to-bad service, so-so food with reasonable prices, however. Won't go again, not recommended.