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Silver Pond
Rating Details »
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
16 reviews for Silver Pond
This has to be one of the best chinese places in SoFlo.
Yummy dishes!
- Peking Pork Chops. The sauce itself is great, and the chops themselves are crispy, and meat quality is yummy. (Other places in soflo tend to use gamey-tasting pork.)
- Eggplants in Satay sauce with pork. But my roommie calls it "Eggplant from heaven" It's served in a clay pot. and is saucey and very flavorful.
- Sizzling beef and onions. juicy pieces of skirt steak on a sizzling platter.
- honey walnut prawns.
ok dishes
- beef with broccoli.
The servers are pretty attentive. and are nice, and can give suggestions if you are craving anything. and if you know what you want, but don't know the name, they'll know what you mean when you describe it.
Closed on Wednesdays!
If you want traditional well cooked Chinese food, go to Silver Pond. My parents, who are the biggest critics on Chinese food (and they have owned a number of Chinese restaurants in their past lives), think this is the best Fort Lauderdale (if not South Florida) has to offer, and I HAVE to agree with them. In fact, every time it's one of my parent's birthday, this is where they want to go for dinner.
And, if you are into the more Americanized versions of Chinese, they have that too...and I guarantee you will love it equally.
This restaurant is one of those that have fish and shellfish in tanks, ready to be cooked. I know it sounds a bit much for some, but the Chinese love their food, including the meat, as fresh as possible.
When we go, we usually order from the family menu that includes a set of entrees for everyone to share family style. My favorites include: clay pot seafood dish, roast duck, fresh lobster/crab stir fried in ginger and scallions, and salt and pepper shrimp.
Now, the decor is a bit dated, but who cares about that when you have AMAZING food? You know this place is great when you see tables and tables of Chinese feasting out on traditional delicacies!
Oh and on Friday and Saturday nights, get there early, or expect to wait. And even if you do, it's well worth it!
I don't know what the bad reviews are about. I've never had a bad meal or bad service here.
This is good Chinese food, not the junk a lot of people are used to - don't come here looking for totally Americanized stuff.
Last night, we had five of us, so rather than wasting our time going through the nice, long menu (and my family knows I'm the most indecisive person ever), we decided to do the meal for six at the back of the menu. I don't eat meat, so one dish was just for the other four people too!
The waiter was happy to substitute the included soup for the winter melon soup that my uncle wanted, and my mom and I added hot and sour soup to that as well.
The meal for six is incredible. There is A LOT of food. We were super-hungry, so that worked out well.
It came with ginger scallion crab (excellent), pork fried rice (for which we substituted vegetable no problem), seafood in a bird's nest (absolutely delicious), fish (I forget what it was - it was a whole fish, and I'm not keen on bones or skin, and my family ate it before I could get to it anyway), salt and pepper squid, roast duck (I don't eat meat, but my family loves duck and they were drooling), and I think that's it - I mean, that's already 6 dishes plus a soup for $98 and there's a lot of seafood!
Please don't go here and cringe at the atmosphere; it just reminds me of Chinatown anyway. What's important is that the food is good.
The food is good for Florida Chinese. Not truly authentic, as the pepper and garlics are muted for the local traffic. It would be nice if they shut down for a week and cleaned the place, including the windows.
The service was absolutly horrible. So of you don't mind waiting in line for semi-real cuisine in a dirty restaurant with bad service, this is the place.
I went to Silver Pond on the recommendation of a friend. I have gone completely against my most basic instincts and eaten there a few times in the past year. Yes, the food is that good.
The place is a mess, the windows are dirty and the dining room does not look hygienic at all. So, getting a beer is #1 order of business.
The service is rough just like in most cheap establishments in any big city, but they are efficient and get things done.
Their hot and sour soup is great. The shark fin soup is also very tasty. And their egg drop soup is outstanding The soup portions are huge so I recommend you share between 3-4 people, at least. If you want to order a variety of soups, expect to take most of it home.
I usually order things like Dragon & Phoenix, Pepper Squid or a Whole Fish dish because they are so different to anything else one can get around here. I have tried the sea cucumber and it was just too much for me; definitely an acquired taste.
I recommend this place as a dining experience unlike any other in South Florida. The adventure is worth a drive and the food is interesting and flavorful.
I am surprised at the low reviews. This is the best HK style food in the Lauderdale area and when I leave SF to visit my fam in FL, we come here. I have seldom been disappointed.
Then again, if you come here to order "classics" like shrimp and lobster sauce, lo mein, general chicken and egg drop soup?!?!? , then I have no idea what to tell you except you should be eating at panda express.
It's hard to find a chinese place open til midnight in Fort Laduerdale area so we came here by default. It's got very authentic chinese food. Ma Po tofu is tasty but wasn't spicy enough. The chow mien and fried rice is good. Their beef chow fun wasn't good at all though as the noodles were overly soft without any chewiness to it. Portions were pretty big too. Seems a bit price for this type of food as they charge $10+ for chow mien. ouch
It's all right; where else are you going to get HK style Chinese food in the Fort? If you knew what to get (casseroles), HK City BBQ was much better, but they are closed indefinitely due to a robbery that ended in tragedy.
They have 2 take-out menus. Once you order the atypical stuff, they'll make sure you have the more authentic Chinese version as you go out the door.
good, Hong Kong seafood at decent prices (and in Ft. Lauderdale?!). peking duck was tasty and the dungeness crab was prepared just right. best dish of the night was the Pi Paw tofu = deep fried tofu stuffed with pork served with a spicy, garlic sauce. crispy chicken was also a winner. dinner for 10 people with 10 courses came out to $18 a head...awesome deal. make sure to call for reservations on the weekends...they get busy.
Every Asian descent person I know considers this restaurant the real thing and as close to home cooking as it gets. I a typical north American have eaten there and consider it first class food, service and cleanliness. Prices were moderate and well worth it.
They have the best shrimp dish I have ever had in a Chinese restaurant. I think it was the Garlic Shrimp? Perfectly beautiful and plenty of jumbo prawns. We were a party 6 and the service was absolutely fine.
While I have to say that the Hong Kong style food there is pretty good, I gave them 1 star because of their absolutely rotten service. This has nothing to do with the fact that it was jam packed with customers. It was extremely strange, because while I saw that our waiter was outgoing and cheery to other tables, he acted as if waiting on us was a pain. We were a nondemanding pleasant group, so I have no idea why he acted this way to us. But this was not the only reason for the bad service:
First, while he was taking our order, he was shouting in Chinese to another waiter about something, which probably caused him to get two of our dishes wrong. When they brought out the incorrect soup, they actually asked us if we wanted to eat it, even though it was not the soup that we ordered. They took back the soup, and brought us the correct soup with no apologies. With the appetizer, we started eating it and realized the filling inside was wrong (vegetable and not seafood roll). We decided to keep it anyways, but we told another waiter that the order was wrong, and that we wanted to make sure we weren't charged for the more expensive seafood filling. He then started to raise his voice, and started to yell at us, as if we did something wrong. He even pointed at the ticket with chinese writing on it, and told us that the order was correct, showed the ticket to my brother, and telling him "you read Chinese right?". No dude. Sorry, we don't. We just want the correct meals that we ordered. We originally thought that it was because the original waiter didn't speak English well, but observing the conversations he had with the other tables, that hypothesis was shot down.
When waiter #2 came back with our main dishes, he started yelling the names of them, as if saying "see, we got these dishes right". So basically we were made to feel bad that we pointed out the original waiter's mistakes. The original waiter came back, gave us rice, and gave us a loud "hmmmpf" noise. That was the most rude service I had ever received in my life. That was the end of the extreme rudeness, except for the fact that after we got all the dishes, no one checked on us or refilled our water glasses. When we tried to call the original waiter for our check, he glanced at us and then walked away acting as if he didn't hear us. Dude you looked back. You heard us. We had to get another waiter/busser to tell the original waiter to bring our check. We got oranges and fortune cookies, paid the bill and left.
If you live in the area, and like hong kong style food, go somewhere else to eat. Otherwise, I'd just order takeout from there. Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!
The menu appears promising, but the quality was not delivered. Wouldn't drive far to go there. Had the seafood nest. Pretty much a disappointment. Lacked flavor, ingredients tough. They did include conch. Yes, I know this place is popular, but I'd probably just go to Tropical. Restaurant located next to a shooting range. Bakery, small BBQ shop, asian mart nearby.
Why I eat Chinese food outside San Francisco is a mystery to me. The corn egg-drop soup was pretty good, the rest was fair but unremarkable.
I love the food from there. My favorite disks are House special steak, Seafood soup, sweet and sour pork chop. There are always a line if you go on sat and sun for dinner. I will say go either before 7 or after 9 to avoid the wait
This place was recommended by a friend of a friend, and honestly I have no idea why. Completely unremarkable except to say my lunch was, uh... tasteless. Shrimp with Lobster Sauce sounded great, but was very bland. The shrimp were well cooked, but this dish had *no* flavor. The egg Drop/Wonton Soup was passable. The fried rice unremarkable. I wish I could remember why this place was recommended to me - maybe they have one amazing dish, but none of what I had would bring me back.