Silver Palace

Well friends,
This isn’t it.
We got an order of coconut chicken and an order of general tsos. Just so you know where we’re coming from.
The General tsos tasted like a McDonald’s Cheeseburger. My friend and I spent our meal discussing and dissecting the missteps in our flavor adventure and boy did it get scarier deeper down the rabbit (or chicken, or other meat?!) hole we went. There were first notes of burger patty, I’d say that was the most distinct. Followed by a bouquet of ketchup, mustard, with just a hint of toasted sesame seed on the nose for an exciting surprise. Yes that’s right. All the flavors of a classic McDouble. In your Chinese food! –_​–
Next is the coconut chicken, which was essentially sweet and sour chicken smothered in a sauce with a consistency not dissimilar to semen and what we think might have been made from equal parts coconut milk, sugar, and human mucus. We kept eating it though, because we were so intrigued and settled on soggy meat doughnut as the most appropro flavor comparison for this dish.
The egg rolls were sad, tough and sad. Much like the youth hanging outside on this cold and blustery January night.
So far the food hasn’t killed us. So a star for that.

I mean, it’s a Chinese fast food restaurant. I seriously can’t tell the difference in quality among the hundreds of similar restaurants with similarly archaic names: Fish Temple, China Broadway, Jade Chinese, etc etc.
Like all its brethren, this is a to-​go spot, not much space to eat. Plus, it’s awkward to be sitting alone at the only table in the place and have people standing waiting all around you, sniffing at your food.
I ordered the Sesame Chicken ($ 5.50) and I must admit that it was the weirdest, most abnormal serving of Sesame Chicken I have ever seen. It was a bright orange color and cut into cube like slices that were fried. The orange sauce was a mixture of sweet & sour and honey. It was weird. Not bad, just weird. There was no sesame anywhere… maybe it was a wrong order. It was definitely plenty of food so I didn’t feel like I overpaid. It’s right around the corner of the block from me (like, 20 seconds away), so I’ll keep going back when I need my Chinese fix.

Two words: Buh. Land.
Seriously, I don’t think I’ve EVER had Chinese food this bland. I’ve never been so thankful for soy sauce packets in my life.
Don’t bother unless you’re really in the mood to pay for something you’ll barely remember eating.

This place is good for one thing, their boneless chicken with rice. No other chinese place makes it like they do. It has a slight Spanish style to their boneless chicken. If you order anything else it’ll be like any other place so stick to what they’re good at. the boneless chicken.

ordered delivery and found it to be made of fail.
the sesame chicken was soggy and not so sesame-​ey. the fried wontons were just gross. the pork fried rice was simply mediocre. ok, so the fried chicken wings were adequate. the search for more-​than-​adequate-​chinese delivery in harlem continues.