Silver Lake Restaurant

A long standing Chinese restaurant in Roselle. Came here with my family when i was in town for a visit. Just like I remembered it, decorations and all. They have spicy and non spicy options available and decent sized portions of food. I enjoyed the spicy fried rice as it was ACTUALLY spicy, which was a plus as most places will avoid making it too spicy.

I’m not sure why this location is so different then the west chicago location. The food is overcooked, salty and they put onion in the egg drop soup. I wouldn’t stop here again Jins down the road is 100 better.

Delicious Chinese food! I’ve done dine in as well as delivery. Love numerous menu items! Always so hard to decide which delectable meal to choose. The only thing I think I ever didn’t like was the crab Rangoon, but the pot stickers are the best any where so don’t waste your time on the Rangoon any way.
My top suggestions are the pot stickers, crab Rangoon, Cantonese shrimp, and egg rolls.
Love the soup.
The war mein, lo mein, and chow fun are awesome dishes. Great fried rice, I almost always get shrimp. Hmm… I love getting the beef in a nest and adding veggies! Ya lots of great options! I could go on and on!

Amazing food. They have some of the best crab Rangoon and potstickers around.
Their empress and general tso chicken are also fantastic and they give you good portions. If you’re a fried rice fan, try theirs. Beware though the large is HUGE, and can feed a colony.
The only thing that keeps me from giving them 5 stars is that the past few times I’ve ordered they deliver my food without the sauce for the potstickers, even if mention it on the phone or leave a not on their online ordering page
Overall, this is my favorite Chinese restaurant to go to.

We moved to Dallas 4 years ago and everytime we come back up to visit we have to come here! We were regulars when we lived here
The staff is so friendly and still remembers us!

Service and quality of food has become unacceptable. I haven’t ordered from here in quite awhile because I prefer other Chinese restaurants however I ordered several appetizers, a soup and a noodle dish for carry out. The fried shrimp
Was dried out and I couldn’t even bite it in half the crab rangoons were soggy and very fishy tasting the egg roll was ok. When I called the gentleman was rude and Immediately defensive. He asked what specifically the prob was with the food and when I told him he just kept asking so what’s wrong with it. It would be one thing if he was friendly and offered it remade Or apologized. Instead he fought me on the phone in answer to my complaint that I just hung up.

This is my go to Chinese place. It’s a little higher in price than others closer to me but they’re very consistent. We usually get orange or sesame chicken, egg rolls and crab ragoons. The meat isn’t hard or gross. I haven’t had a bad experience.

Will not be visiting Silverlake much in the future. The price increase and elimination of their 10% online order discount has made it too unaffordable. Bummed.

Best Chinese food in the area. Can’t complain, the food is delish and they always are pleasent. They never screw the order and always provide extra sauces.

I’ve been going to silver Lake for as long as I can remember. They have awesome service, great food, and they have delivery. Some of the items in the menu are pricey but the portions make up for it. They have a great menu selection. Silver Lake never seems to disappoint. I would recommend the empress chicken to anyone who has not tried Silver Lake.

I’ve eaten at this restaurant and I’ve all so had home delivery. Tonight I had steak kow and an egg roll. The delivery person was friendly & courteous. The food was nice and hot. My meal was absolutely delicious!
I was’t a big fan of Chinese food in the past but this place has made me a fan.

Should have been suspicions when my wife and I walked in during lunch and there was absolutely no customers in there. Didn’t like the orange chicken. Was gray meat and was not good quality at all. Wife and I did not finish our food. Won’t be going back.

I have been patronizing this place for quite some time and I have to admit, I don’t think I am ever going back. The food has gone down hill, from soggy tofu to chewy, cardboard tasting pork. I feel like this place just doesn’t care anymore. The food has been terrible on more than a few occasions in the last couple months. I’d suggest checking out another local Chinese joint that cares more about what they serve.

DISAPOINTED. Over an hour for delivery. Food delivered cold. If the drivers car broke down and a freight train story. A phone call could have come in. And told me the food is definitely gonna be late. And the fact that it was delivered late and cold. Does not mean I just want a 20 $ credit. I wanted $ 50 dollars of fresh Hot Chinese.food.

This is the only place where my family orders Chinese food. We really like the spicy fried rice, but you can’t go wrong with anything on the menu, no MSG.
We always order take out, so I don’t know much about the service.

I stopped in to try the house special fried rice. My main reason for doing so was because my local favorite is closed on Mondays. I remembered eating here once before and I enjoyed the food but never made it back.
I called to place a take out order by phone. What is neat is you have the option to place an order online and this month they are offering 10% off online orders. Once I realized you need to insert card information, I decided to call in. I would rather pay cash for $ 7 worth of rice.
The small rice is a nice size for one person. It is full of various meats (shrimp. chicken and bbq pork). It has green onions, eggs and bean sprouts. I enjoyed it and will definitely keep this place in mind as a nearby back up.

This place is a small chain of Chinese restaurants in my area. I normally don’t order from here but when I’m pressed for time it works ok.
Having been to china a few times I would call this place a bad interpretation of what Chinese food should be (Panda express being the worst). If Chinese-​American food is what you’re looking for than this place is decent. Over the years I’ve had the:
Dry Beef Chow Fun: Large portions even when you order the small. Lots of beef and vegetables with chow fun cooked very well. This is my go to dish when I need a quick bite.
Pot stickers: Big, thick skinned. Pretty standard generic pot stickers.
Hot and Sour Soup: Also very generic starch laden soup.
Fish Filet in Garlic black bean sauce: Probably the only actual fish item on the menu outside of shrimp and scallops. A small order gets you about 60%vegetables and sauce with only 40% fish pieces. I only got like 5 small pieces of fish in my order. Probably not ordering this again.
Deliveries usually take a while (Average 40 – 50 minutes) for me but pick up is ready in 15 – 20 which I usually go for. Being actually chinese I admit I am overly biased towards these so called «Chinese» restaurants but I also understand they cater to Chinese-​American tastes so I’m not gonna hate. In the end I would deem this place pretty good for quick generic Chinese takeout.

The food here is delicious, my husband and I travel quite the distance to have quality chinese food. Service is great, quick to fill drinks.
The only down side is that my meals both times were over half onions and the other half was veggies and meat. In the future i will be asking for no onions.

The best way to experience Chinese food is definitely not by ordering «Lunch Specials». Unfortunately, I am rating it based on this because this was the order I made for my office.
I ordered the Imperial Chicken for the reviews everyone gave it. Most of the people who ordered this seemed to have liked it and it wasn’t so bad. It was just a little bit on the salty side and would have been much better with white rice instead of the fried rice. The fried rice was okay too. As for the Spring Roll, it had the right amount of crunch when biting in to it and tastes best with the sweet and sour sauce.
My boss ordered Chicken with Peapod and Water Chestnut which was pleasant to the pallet, not to salty and not bland either. As for my co-​workers, one ordered the Shrimp with Lobster sauce. The Lobster sauce was not lobster sauce, the ingredients mentioned was «Shrimp stir-​fried with fine-​cut pork in a black bean garlic sauce with egg white and yolk.» Where’s the lobster in the sauce? Shouldn’t say Shrimp with black bean garlic sauce? This one is very misleading. Another order was the Sweet and Sour Chicken — I was not able to taste this one.
For my boyfriend, I ordered him Beef and Broccoli. He barely touched it and ended up just eating cereal. He’s not really a fan of Asian food and feels that they all taste the same. It’s too bad because there are a lot of Asian Restaurants that can change his mind. But, because he’s had so many bad experiences, he just doesn’t care for it. In this case, I understood why he did not touch his lunch at all. The Beef and Broccoli was just not cooked correctly. There was an after taste to this and it also looked like it was cooked the day before, just reheated and packaged. I am not saying this is the case, this is just an opinion of what the food tasted like and an observation.
I would give five stars but only because the customer service and the people who took my order, and helped me when I picked up the food were awesome. Unfortunately, to me the food I ate did not reflect anymore than three stars that I had given because the overall taste of the food was just okay. Like they say, you get what you pay for. The cost for Lunch Special is no more than $ 6.75 plus tax. If we paid for the normal price and not a special price, then maybe it would have tasted better? I’m sure this is just one day of okay review. Possibly if I was to eat again in the restaurant and order other items that were not in the Lunch Special, I probably would have a different review. But, we’ll see when that time comes.

Would I order from here again? Maybe just the fried rice and crab rangoon.
I can only speak to the food as we ordered take-​out and my bro picked up the food.
Tofu and Veggie – pretty good. Nice sauce, fresh veggies.
BBQ Pork Fried Rice – Excellent. Not greasy, great flavor, every bite had a bit of BBQ pork.
Orange Beef – we ordered medium spicy and it was just ok. The sauce was kind of gloopy and bland. And even though we wanted medium spice, it was pretty mild.
Egg Rolls – not good at all. Even though the wrapper was nice and crispy, the filling was pretty mushy.
The famous potstickers? Just OK, the filling was good, but there was just too much dough.
Crab Rangoon – Delicious. Probably the best ones I’ve had in the Western Burbs.