Lotus Café - Silver Spring

I don’t know how people can eat in these place, is so disgusting a friend of mine clean for them and she told me everything she saw cockroach everywhere inside fridge food containers etc? she show me all the pictures that she took …. Plus the new owner still from her not paying her for the very hard work she did cleaning this disgusting place ??

This is very unfortunate. I’ve been eyeing this place. I decided to try them today and it’s ghost town. I had called several times and no answer, so I just thought they were busy. Today is Wednesday and I drove here and wasted time but they’re seriously not open. It’s 5:14 p.m. And that is very strange. I hope everything is okay cause this seems unusual.

Literally all the food I ordered had no flavor and dry. Summer rolls were just full of noodles, not enough veggie or protein and all torn up. It was so hard to hold them up. Curry chicken taste like it was made w/ cheap curry powder, has absolutely no flavor. Pad thai was so dry and had no flavor either. I add some pad thai sauce at home but still couldnt save chicken curry though. I dont know what restaurant is but they def need to improve their cooking.

The food was the worst Vietnamese food we ever had. We ordered Lo mein and summer spring rolls. The spring rolls came with no sauce and the noodles that was supposed to be seafood noodles came with 5 shrimp and it was completely bland. Maybe we just hit them on a bad day but it looked like our food was prepared in a hurry :

Maybe we went on a bad day, but the one day we ate there did not at all live up to the high ratings.The appetizers were all fine. Grape leaves were good. Shrimp toast wasn’t BAD. We liked the pancake, though my companion found it a bit greasy, and I didn’t care for the taste of the pork which I picked out. (They have a vegetarian version without the pork.)The pho was too salty, and I didn’t care for the beef flank taste. The taste of the lemongrass tofu reminded us both of dry dog food kibble. We didn’t eat either one.I decided to try the bacon shrimp. It tasted like a bacon shrimp quiche, cooked “well done,” but with the shrimp tails on. I didn’t care for the taste of the egg, but dipping it in fish sauce improved the flavor.Hopefully we just hit them on a bad day, judging on the other good reviews. I like that they have an extensive menu of unusual dishes. Our waiter was very nice, and we had a good time. Their reviews show they’ve been here more than a decade. I hope they do very well.