The service here is trash unless You are of Asian decent. I've been sitting here ignored & unattended to for the past 30 min writing reviews on how bad the service is here. They kept taking my chopsticks away & giving me a fork... I won't even start with that but it annoyed the fuck out of me. They're impatient when they ask You a question then never come back to see if You need anything. I had to ask 4 diff people for a beer... before I could even get service about my food order. Idk what they served me but it's for sure not lamb. This is either beef or pork. I had the worst experience I've ever had at a Chinese spot. This place sucks & I would not recommend if You're Black. Maybe order to go but they will carry You if You dine in. read more

Silver Fountain - I ordered lamb... this IS NOT lamb! - Dim Sum Near Me - Silver Spring, Maryland

The food was pretty good! Classic Chinese restaurant vibes. Ordered the family platter for 4 people and boy that was a lot of food which was great lol. I'm broke so having a lot of food is good to me. The prices aren't too bad either. Like around less than $15 on average. Just standard good food. I'd love to try their dim sum next time. Overall, good experience. Just got to be patient sometimes with the service because communication may be a little tougher with language barrier but I come from immigrant family so totally understandable and doesn't take away from the food anyway! Check it out~ read more

I recently started working near the Aspen Hill shopping center and decided to look for a "GO TO" food spot. After walking up and down the shopping center walkway and looking into the sit down restaurants, I decided to dine at Silver Fountain. When I entered the restaurant, I was greeted by two friendly employees. I ordered the spring rolls and the chicken fried rice. On my way back to work, I ate the spring rolls in the car and was impressed. I can't say the same about the chicken fried rice. As soon as I opened the food container, I was disappointed with the appearance of the rice. The color of the chicken fried rice was like none I have ever seen before. The chunks of chicken did not look like what you typically see in chicken fried rice. The taste and texture of the chicken rubbed me the wrong way! I truly believe the meat was not real chicken. Consider avoiding the chicken fried rice if you decide to dine at the Silver Fountain. read more

Large Cantonese style restaurant. There's definitely a Chinese and gringo menu. I dined here after attending a funeral and their was a large reservation set up for the family. The food was great. Had no idea Maryland has such a community of my kind of Chinese people. It was the type of entrees that served for special occasions. I did take a look at the American style Chinese at the buffet table and it was just okay. Plenty of parking since it in the mall. Clean bathroom for being a Chinese spot. read more

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If you like dim sum, don't be a dum dum, and go to Silver Fountain. I go to this place for dim sum (shhh don't tell anyone) three to four times a month. I just can't get enough and I never tire of it. The shumai, the steamed shrimp ball, and the shark fin (actually dried scallop) are all over the top amazing! Flavorful, perfectly cooked, and gentle on the tum-tum. It's like Asian comfort food. The staff can seem a little prickly but trust me, they're all super nice...just over worked. If you're in the Silver Spring area and Oriental East was your old dim sum spot, come here instead. They're better and best of all...open. BTW, they serve dim sum until 3pm...which rocks! You're welcome. read more

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Nice and quick service. Love the jasmine tea! Their flavors are really good. I like how they balance the smoky-wok flavor with the Chinese ingredients. They have a huge variety of dishes as well. Only one detail: don't ever order the combination platters, even though it comes with choice of soup, fried rice, a protein, and a spring roll, the quality is poor, the entrée portion is a scam, and they stuff you with rice. I happened to order one today, Moo Goo Gai Pan, which is chicken with mixed vegetables... and they gave me CANNED chicken I know that the combination offer is pretty affordable but canned chicken? Really? That's just insulting! I didn't complain because I was with my elder neighbor and she loves that place, so I just removed the gross few pieces of the canned chicken and ate the veggies and the rice. I may go back because my first time there was actually really good and now I know not to order the combination options ever again! read more

Silver Fountain - Shrimp tempura - Dim Sum Near Me - Silver Spring, Maryland

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Not the easiest place to get to - being 10 miles from DC and requiring the use of a car which I don't own.  However lately whenever I get the chance I'd make the obligatory drive there just for the egg tarts - they make the best ones in the DMV - two per order, the perfect size, with the flakiest delicate crust and the silky smooth textured egg custard filling.  Last time also ordered a variety of dim sum - not as outstanding as the egg custards (they are five stars) but pretty acceptable for satisfying one of these occasional dim sum cravings. read more

Silver Fountain - The egg tarts here are the best! - Dim Sum Near Me - Silver Spring, Maryland

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We stopped in for lunch. Wanted DimSum- but choices were so limited. Slow service and food tasted so bland.

I have been going to this place for dim sum for the past 15 years and i have never as much experience poor customer service! Normally i get my dim sum to go and never had an issue until today. Unfortunately the soy sauce cups that come with the crepes were spiked with alcohol/ wine that i couldn't even use it! This is the second time this happened. This time i had gone back to exchange it for normal sweet soy sauce and the owner i believed said no sorry this is the batch we had this morning, don't worry about it okay? And the other nice lady next to her agreed they all smelled like alcohol/wine and she was offering me some soy sauce packets instead and the owner lady cut her off and said No, we don't have any! So rude?? More like she was being CHEAP! ?!?! She would even offered anything in replace of it! She totally ignored it and was like she didn't even cared what it smelled like! Unfortunately i will not be going back here again! Owner lady was ridiculously RUDE!!! I WON'T be coming back here again!!! I would never recommend this place again! I rather go order my dim sum at China Garden or Far East! They probably have better customer service!! I wonder if anyone has experienced this at all?? read more

I love silver fountain! The dumplings, the walnut shrimp. if you go for dim sum service, there is typically a wait if you arrive after noon. Don't forget to try the pineapple buns for dessert! read more

This place has the best dim sum in the Rockville Area. Personally, I think it's better than Far East and tons better than China Garden. However, it has not figured out how to do online ordering. Those that don't speak Cantonese or Mandarin might be a little intimidated to order. You can dine in or do take out. Because of COVID, my family has been doing strictly takeout. They take orders via phone or in person. They have lots of paper menus for you to order from or point and circle in person. The lady on the phone is juggling a lot so be patient. It is worth it. Their pineapple buns and egg custard tarts are perfection. The beef chow fun is cooked well enough to have that crispy wok essence. The orange beef has an addictive glaze. Their walnut shrimp has pineapple! This is our go-to choice for dim sum and Chinese food. read more

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Honey Walnut and Beef Chow Fun are amazing. All the Lobster Dishes are also excellent. Wonderful service and clean restaurant. Definitely check out their Dim sum as well read more

So I wasn't going to post a review but after my experience on Mother's Day I feel like I have to share. I've been here a few times during the dinner hours on Sunday nights and the food is good and comes out timely but the service has been poor. Even when we've been one of maybe 2 or 3 families eating in the restaurant, we really are never checked up on again after our order is taken. So you have to find your waiter to ask for anything. This honestly didn't bother me too much, but my experience on Mother's Day was really something else. The picture I posted is from a time I came for dinner, not on Mother's Day. Mother's Day was too stressful and disappointing to take any pictures tbh I don't think I have ever seen worse management for a restaurant in my life. We came here for dim sum on Mother's Day and the restaurant was completely jam packed. There was a line out the door with people waiting for their take out orders while there was only one person at the front desk who was sorting out the take out orders, answering all the phone calls, and responsible for seating customers who were dining in. This lead to a terrible traffic and no one being directed to seating. We saw no one helping us so we honestly just sat at the one table we saw open to dine in. I saw people just leaving the restaurant without their take out order because they were so fed up. And another person even asked for an order of someone who had already left because they had been waiting for so long and it looked like the kitchen lost her order. That's just the mess with take out. On the dining floor itself...it was hard to watch and hard to be a part of. With quite a large restaurant, there was only maybe 3 waitresses and all of them looked SO stressed and overwhelmed (understandably!!). It was frustrating because we had to chase down waitresses to even put in our order and had to wait so long for simple requests like forks, knives, and water. But at the same time, I understand how hard it was to remember and meet our requests when they each probably had 10 other tables making requests of them. Looking around, I saw nearly all other families around me frustrated and upset at the poor service. Once we finally got a hold of a waitress to put in our order, the food came out at a decent time. The food was good overall but the har gao (shrimp dumpling dim sum) shrimp was mushy and not very good. The dumpling skin was okay though. But I'm ending this review with what pissed me off the most. There was an old lady who came to dine in that day who was sitting alone and she didn't understand how the menu worked and she didn't understand Chinese so she went to the neighboring table to ask for guidance. The neighboring table kindly helped her and I saw the old lady circle the items on the pink take out menu that she wanted. When she returned to her table, a waitress saw her circle on the pink menu and snatched that menu out her hands and told her to write on the white menu and just ran off. No explanation on how the white dim sum menu worked, no asking if she needed help, just utter rudeness. Thankfully another patient waitress came around and did her best to help this lady. Overall, the terrible service (probably resulting from HORRENDOUS management) was just so hard to watch and be a part of. Good Cantonese food and dim sum that's fairly priced is becoming pretty hard to come by in Montgomery county but even though Silver Fountain has decent food, I would not suggest this place to anyone. I hope the manager or boss or whoever is in charge starts hiring more help and treating their customers better. read more

Silver Fountain - Snow pea leaves, salt spicy triple delight, eight treasure hot pot with bean curd - Dim Sum Near Me - Silver Spring, Maryland

Delicious foods and reasonable price. My family usually come here for push-cart dum sum on the weekends and typical Chinese dine-in foods. Their stir-fry dishes have a nice wok-hei aroma. The servers are friendly. read more

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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. read more

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Silver Fountain, the new restaurant with the greatest and most authentic dim sum this side of the Potomac River. Ever since the closure of the great and wonderful Oriental East in Silver Spring, this place has been filling the void and our tummies. I should mention that Mrs. Li, the former owner and operator of Oriental East dines here at Silver Fountain on the regular. I had dined at Oriental East since I was a child, and now followed Mrs. Li and many others over here to Silver Fountain. I love their dim sum! My wife loves their chow fun! Next time I go, I will have to try the Peking Duck. It's one of my absolute favorites. I love that they have an authentic Chinese only signboard specials menu. I'd like to come with my Chinese friends so they can tell me what I may be missing out on. Often the most authentic food is only on offer in the native language. For adventurous eaters, exploring these options is a must! Get yourself some Shu Mai and Spare Rib Tips in Black Bean Sauce. My kids love the steamed pork bun and I love the shrimp rice noodle crepe. Go Dim Sum or Go Home! read more

Only mistake we made was to take so many plates off the first cart that went by (we went first dum sum on a sunday just after noon). Wait for the barbeque pork buns! We had a great experience here read more

Went there one Sunday. The cart never made it to our table. Once it came out, people from other tables got up and grab what they wanted with their tickets in hand. We waited 45mins for 1 order of walnut shrimp. After we got it we just left without waiting for the carts to circle around. The carts were coming out way toooo slow. No workers cared to even check on us. read more

If I could rate their service 'ZERO', I would. Food was alright. So we dined in, had a separate to go order for 6 appetizers dim sum. So we paid, waited, waited and waited. Waited some more. Half an hour goes by so we asked and inquired about our to go portion. They said a few more minutes. Waited more and more, NOTHING still. Saw a bag at the to go table, asked them. They said it wasn't ours. So waited some more. Then finally another lady said it was ours. So we looked inside, just 4 containers. So we opened them, missing 2 orders of congee. So when we asked about it, they said we didn't order them. So back and forth, we said we did, they said no, we didn't pay for them. So when they pulled out the original paperwork from the carry out menu. Which we took pics of. So there's 2 pages, if this was your restaurant and your menu, WHY WOULD YOU NOT LOOK AT THE BACKSIDE OF YOUR OWN MENU? How is it my fault you didn't see the back page? And you had the Audacity to ask if I wanted to wait longer after paying more $$. Even though she said just 10 more minutes for what we're missing, NOPE, not waiting anymore time, refuse to pay them anymore money in addition to what we already paid and tipped (before all this had happened.) Food was just alright, but service and their mannerism sucks. And how do you conduct a business that way? read more

Silver Fountain - Other side checked off what we wanted. - Dim Sum Near Me - Silver Spring, Maryland

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This is good dim sum if you are in the mood- we were a little late on a Sunday so the carts and choices were not as plentiful but the shrimp and pork shu mai were very good - we also ordered general tso chicken and beef chow fun which were also very tasty- pork buns were "the best" according to my son! read more

I cannot believe I haven't written a review for Silver Fountain yet. Did I do this in my dream? Because I absolutely love this place's dim sum and want to shout it from the rooftops. Lucky me (and bad for my pockets) living up the street from a quality dim sum place for so many years. I would, quite literally, roll out of bed on Sunday and get ugly glares from families dressed in their Sunday-best. Oh well, all for the love of dim sum and then some. While the carts can take awhile to get around, all of the quintessential dim sum dishes are hot, flavorful, juicy, aromatic - just like they are supposed to be - once they make their way to you. The har gow, shu mai and cheung fun are my favorites. Ending with a steamy pineapple bun is the only way to do it. Compared to China Garden, which some hail as the best dim sum in the area, I still prefer Silver Fountain. It is less pricy as well. Need to find me on Sunday mornings? In the famous words of Cardi B, "you know where I'm at, you know where I be." read more

Silver Fountain - Pineapple Bun - Dim Sum Near Me - Silver Spring, Maryland

This place fell off the cliff! I remember the food used to be good. Everything lacks flavor, not fresh and poor quality. The Shrimp har gow had thick mushy skin and the shrimp filling taste nasty with shrimp guts showing every bite. We were there a bit over an hour (Saturday) and only saw 3 carts roll by. We didn't get our tea until we ask ask about it 10min later. On a good note, the chrysanthemum was good w/rock candy read more

Nice and varaties of Chinese food. Service alway is quick. I like to order roast duck and dim sum here. They are a good one to try. Also it is a huge restaurant, quite a bit hotel style. Clean and organise seat&table. No worry, you will alway have room to enjoy your meal there. read more

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NEVER RETURNING! The staff are rude, ambiance is lame, nobody to greet you when you enter, I had to get my own napkins and silverware because the staff did not provide it, and on top of that when I ordered the lo mein it took far too long to make. I had to watch my family nearly complete their meals before mine arrived. I was so hungry and frustrated I left and got Chipotle next door and took the lo mein as leftovers. Despite the terrible experience still charged. The people at the table next to me had the same problem. read more

Food and service is great. When possible, check out the chicken feet...really good! We ordered Cantonese style chow mein and it was spot on. The duck was very tasty too! read more

An OK visit. Food quality has gone down compared to years past. Not sure what happened in a year or 2, but doesn't feel like the same foods and flavors are there. My favorites were the Siomai, Fried Shrimp Dumplings, and Pineapple Buns. Something seemed to be missing the last time I was there to dine in for Dim Sum. Can't really point out what it was, but taste was off... Service was just OK, as the servers didn't come by regularly to refill our water or tea until called upon. Had to ask multiple times for hot sauce and napkins, too. I believe the food tasted much better before this recent visit... read more

-services is the worst- i dont want to give any stars to them! Food- just like regular chinese, there are many Dim Sum places in MD lately I supported them because i live close by, I am thier regular customer. (2017-2022). It seems that they will treat you differently if you are talking the same language as the server. Any others- eat whatever we have! we dont care! -I will never go there again. - recommend-shumai, shrimp kind dim sum not recommend- streamed roast pork bun read more

Pl do not come to place. 1. The food is cold and not fresh 2. Server is terrible and rude 3. The place is dirty 4. They say they don't speak English but rudely requested for more tip in English 5. Cart is pushed in one direction only and if you are on wrong table you get nothing but left overs that are limited and cold. 6. Terrible environment and service overall. read more

I've been coming here with my family for over 15 years-- it's the best dim sum in Maryland! We especially love their shark fin and radish cake. Dim sum carts come around daily until 3pm-- definitely go for the experience! read more

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Never coming here again, the service was bad the food was cold and we managed to only eat 3 items, for a group of 4 ppl that's not enough. They would not come around to serve us, we waited for over 45 mins. We felt that we were not receiving the same attention as other tables did. Once we went to pay our bill the lady at the front got upset that we didn't leave a bigger tip we left her $5 for a $20 tab which is 25% for bad service, which I'm sure other people wouldn't have left a tip. read more

My family and I ordered our meal from Silver Fountain Restaurant recently, and we were surprised at how delicious everything we ordered tasted. This restaurant is definitely our go-to Chinese food restaurant. read more

Bad service. The foods was okay. Everything was really cold. Was waiting for 1 hour just to eat like 3 stuff from the cart. The lady complaining to us about our tipping based on the service even though we tipped 25%. Never coming back here! read more

Dim sum on a Sunday. We made a reservation and our table was ready for when we asked. It wasn't very busy when we arrived which was a surprise on a Sunday so we thought for sure we'd have our dim sum fast but this day we waited and waited and waited for carts to go by our table for at least 20 minutes or more. Finally when a cart came by it barely had any food on it and the carts just seemed to disappear. One table finally walked to a cart at the back of the room and got their own food from the cart. On this particular day service was painfully slow. Again it wasn't move than 1/2 full and we saw many servers just very few carts and minimal service. While I often expect less than stellar or warm service here, on my last visit it was by far the worst. Most of the food that we had was warm however lots of the same dumplings came out over and over again. The variety was far less than previous visits. If you aren't a shrimp or pork eater, then you'll likely have very little to eat here. It is dim sum however realize that you won't have much dim sum if that's what you're looking for. I used to go here every other month when I lived in Bethesda and haven't gone for several years now that I moved to Virginia. I doubt I'll make the trek back there after this last experience. This place has seen better days read more

Glad to see traditional service of dim sum from carts. Hadn't been to this restaurant in maybe 10 years. Some finishing touches were missing. Some steamed dumplings were cold. read more

We were there for dim sums and it wasn't as good as it was. Foods mostly cold and the waiting for waitress/waiter after sitting was another long wait, a good 30-40 minutes . read more

Consistently good for dim sum. The service is good and the dining room is pretty spacious so you don't have to wait long for a table.

This neighborhood restaurant is much improved in the last few months. The waitress was very friendly. The food was delicious and the shrimp in this shrimp Cantonese is the largest in any restaurant nearby. We give this restaurant a fantastic recommendation and will be happy to be there again and we want them to keep up the improvements thank you read more

I'm not sure how I have never rated this place before seeing how I've been coming for years... This is the best dim sum in the immediate area. I was told that they are owned by the same owner as Oriental East. Can someone confirm this? Anyway, dim sum is dim sum. They have a few dishes that are good, and the rest are all whatever (this applies to all dim sum though). My favorite is the shrimp noodle crepes. I advise you just order those directly from a server because by the time the cart gets around, it's usually empty. Or better yet, come on a week day and just order what you want. The carts are just for show anyway. Service on weekends is pretty much what everyone says it is... but don't take it personal. That's how asians do it. They got everything I asked for, just a little bit slow. They gotta cutback somewhere to make up for the cheap food read more

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I've gone here for dim sum and banquet meals since I was a little girl. The ownership since than has changed recently and it is kind of obvious in the way the place is now managed, and food quality. Given that it was Mother's Day and Covid, I knew there would be a long line and wait time so I had opted to carry out. It was horribly disorganized with people leaving due to long wait times. Like you couldn't tell who was here to pick up, order food, or waiting for dining service. This was because they literally didn't hire enough people to work today, there were people going up to the bags to see if it was their name. We waited two hours to get our order. I don't know if this is common now but it wasn't like this before. The food itself was ok, it seems like the things that used to be steamed are now fried. The skin for the crepe noodles and hagow are definitely super thick and not that great. It just doesn't taste as great as it used to. For instance the custard bun used to be circular shaped like an actual bun, it is now half the size and in a moon shape. The food was generally meh and its not just from having to do carry out. Competitors like Far East may end up blowing them out the water if this keeps up. read more

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Food was delicious, service was a little slow, but overall I would definitely recommend this restaurant to you.