Silver Dragon Restaurant

Our new favourite dim sum hangout. Carts are plentiful and filled with a wide variety of dim sum favourites as well as unusual items. Everything is super fresh and arrives at the table piping hot. If you are lucky, they even have soup dumplings on the carts occasionally. There are often line ups on the weekend but they usually go through them pretty fast.

It’s good to get here nice and early. It’s busy and the food is piping hot and so yummy. It’s a great experience for everyone in the family from very young to old.

They do not need to pay for tips but u can not get any service. I just ask a box to go. But the manager looks like the stupid. She is so impatient and the restaurant smell like shit !!! Never visit again!

I like it here.
The dim sum is decent and the prices are fine. The place looks decent as well.

I have been here for lunch a number of times. The food is good and consistent in taste. The price point is good too.

Food with amazingly quick delivery to my apartment door. Delivery was more of the pleasure when having silver dragon.

I go only to Silver Dragon for Dim Sum. I go once or twice a month with friends. Food is always fresh and hot, employees are always friendly and will to help as much as they can. Sure waiting for a table can be a bit of a pain, but once seated the enjoyment of the smells and tastes. I have tried several other places and they just can’t compete. I will be back over and over until I get sick of Dim Sum :)

Food was nothing special, I actually regretted of not staying home and cooking dinner myself. Szechuan chicken not spicy at all. Veggies were just horrible.

Worst Chinese food I have ever had literally threw up right after. Over priced greasy and simply gross.

I have to give it to this place that it still gets so much business. The food is unimpressive and bland, and the scorn of all Chinese families I know. The prices were hiked up even before the economic downturn. Not worth. The flavor of the dimsum is completely warped to meld with Western tastebuds — and I do hold that it isn’t what it used to be. My family has been here enough times and we’ve left each time disappointed. The servers are so used to pampering white clientele that we are treated with an offhand attitude just by our faces and our language — as if as Chinese people we should KNOW to expect subpar service. This attitude is disgraceful and I feel no cultural connection with this restaurant whatsoever. The only attraction is its decorative value and relative cleanliness.

Very good dim sum but a little more expensive and less options than what we are used to in the states.

Team Fam came here for lunch and we had the following:
Shrimp Dumplings ($ 5.50)
Pork Dumplings ($ 5.50)
Chive Dumplings ($ 5.15)
Beef Rice Flour Rolls ($ 5.15)
Radish Cake ($ 4.50)
Water Chestnut Cake ($ 4.15)
Shrimp Dumplings (Har Gao) are pretty much the hallmark of dim sum. Theywere unsatisfying here. While the shrimp balls were juicy, the skin of the dumpling was mushy and lacked a chewy texture.
The Pork Dumplings (Siu Mai) were also disappointing. The pork filling tasted old and lacked a fresh feeling in each bite. They certainly looked the part though.
The Chive Dumplings (Gao Choy Gao) were the best out of the three dumpling dishes we had. These were juicy, full of shrimp and chive, and this time the skin had a chewy texture that made eating the dumplings exciting.
The Beef Rice Flour Rolls (Ngao Yook Cheung Fun) were disappointing in that the skin was mushy and the beef inside had too much of a bitter aftertasteassociated. It was around this time I began to feel our table was getting a lot of lukewarm dishes and the kitchen was just trying to offload dishes it couldn’t during the lunch rush.
The Radish Cake we ordered straight from the kitchen and these were amazing. Super fluffy but with the right amount of oil and flavour is how I like my Radish Cake and the restaurant delivered. These went great with the vinegar and we ended up having two orders.
The Water Chestnut Cake is a dessert that looks like a kind of jello. It was a mix of jello and nut in the taste department and while it’s not something I’d try again, my mom loved it, so it’s worth a try if you are interested in hot Chinese desserts.

Very good! Had an early dinner there, and was impressed. There was two of us and we ordered the shrimp toast (which was okay.), egg rolls (which are homemade, huge, and tasty), crispy ginger beef (very tasty) and BBQ Pork lo mein (so. absolutely. delicious).
I ate too much lo mein, and we had a bunch of leftovers to take home.
The ginger beef didn’t come with any sides or rice. But we had plenty of food anyway.
Service was efficient and pleasant, and price was reasonable.
Would definitely go there again.

I was here for dinner recently — the food was really good. I highly recommend the ginger chicken and the asian greens in oyster sauce. The cashew chicken dish we ordered had very little chicken and the vegetables were chopped fairly small that only a spoon was suitable — unless you used chop sticks to eat the small pieces of green pepper one by one.
I did not mind the price of the food as it was much better than most Chinese restaurants in Calgary.
My main issue that night was a man seated a table not too far from us and was making Skype or FaceTime calls on his iPad without ear phones to multiple people. He was not eating while we were there. The host went over to him — I thought he was going to ask him to be more respectful of people who were actually eating — but I have a feeling he was either staff or a regular, because the host chatted with him on several occasions between calls.

Secret hint: come around 115 – 130. Most of the traffic will have died down and you can request the servers for specific dim sum and they make it fresh. I think that’s what made this an over the top experience.
We got har gow, cheong fun, shumai, lo bak go and ham sui gok. Lo bak go is crisp and turnipy. Har gow is pretty standard. Char siu cheong fun I would personally not get again — the pork doesn’t quite taste like char siu.
But man, the shumai and ham sui gok is where it’s at. Perhaps its because we got it fresh, but the ham sui gok came straight out of the fryer, crisp yet chewy and glutinous — maybe a bit more filling would be nice, but its so good, who cares? And the shumai is the best — lots of pork, delicate wrapper — super juicy, nice spring to it — my wife said it was one of the top best things she’s ever eaten.
it’s a bit on the pricier side for dim sum, but if you’re willing to pay, its definitely a nice place to go.

This used to be my families go-​to spot when we moved here from Toronto but I haven’t been back for years, mostly due to the sketchy reviews it’s received lately from people. Tonight’s dinner was very good. We had the veggie chow main and the Buddhist bowl. Both of these dishes were well executed with a variety of mushrooms, snow peas, and other crisp veggies. Glad it’s still awesome!

I hadn’t been here for dim sum in so many years I’ve completely forgotten about the restaurant itself! I thought gone were the days that dim sum carts were pushed from table to table. Nope. Not here! (Though I honestly hate them now because they’re never stocked with freshly cooked items and they take forever to get to your table when you’re completely famished!!!) We got a little bit of everything. Shiu mai, ribs, and the likes. They didn’t seem to have the lotus wrapped rice that my son only eats from dim sum. The shiu mai was a bit on the sweet side. I can’t recall anything memorable besides finding parking in Chinatown on a weekend was next to impossible. I don’t know if it is worth it to come here when the experience is nothing like it was when I was a kid. It used to be the best place in Calgary for dim sum. I really don’t find that’s the case anymore.

This place wouldn’t get 4 stars back home on the west coast but for calgary this is really good chinese food/​dim sum. Although many other reviews said bad service, when I was here I had a male server who was pretty decent. A lot of the restaurants in china town do t have a big focus on friendly customer service.
The food was good, decent portions for the price.
I have walked out of here a few times cuz I just didn’t feel like waiting it can get a very big lineup at peak times.
To me the décor is very tacky, another reviewer said it was chinese wedding style.

Once again, Chinese food in Calgary is way better here than back home. Silver Dragon is a fancier chinese restaurant with authentic food. My coworker ordered in Cantonese so I can’t tell you what we got but see the picture I’m attaching for an idea.

Nice restaurant in Chinatown, hear it’s been an institution here, so pretty well explains their customer service. Décor is up to par w/​the ones back home actually, wedding banquet style.
But the food’s blah. Dim sum — it’s tough to compete with Vancouver/​Richmond, but seriously, if I lived here, this wouldn’t be a regular weekly thing. Shrimp dumplings skin wasn’t delicate, for starters.
However, it’s the attitude shown by a server, almost like annoying him to ask for napkins, XO sauce.