hances are, you
don’t have to drive more than a mile to
find a good plate of lo mein or fried rice.

Asian cuisine has exploded in Colorado Springs in recent years. In the 1970s, you could count the Asian restaurants on one hand. Now, there are more than 100 restaurants serving Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and assorted other Asian cuisines.

Here’s a look at four local Asian restaurants that have earned good reputations and have stayed in business long enough to have “regulars” among their clientele. Chances are, you Chances are, you

SILVER POND

Jack and Jennie Hu specialize in what they call “gourmet Chinese” at their Silver Pond.

“Our restaurant is different because the owner also is the chef,” says Jennie Hu. Husband Jack does most of the cooking, from hand-shaping the dumplings to crafting special sauces for dishes he concocts.

Jack grew up in Taiwan and Jennie grew up in Vietnam, where her Chinese parents fled to escape the Communists in China.

The couple met in Colorado Springs and married 21 years ago. He was a chef, but she had never worked in the business till they opened the restaurant 13 years ago.

Customers love the restaurant’s elegant décor, but they love more the avocado-shrimp appetizer, the tender salt-and-pepper calamari and the scallion pancakes. Favorite dishes include strawberry chicken or scallops and shrimp in the house special garlic sauce.

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far left Fresh ingredients combined in sometimes unique ways are the hallmark of the city’s best Chinese and Japanese restaurants. left High quality Asian food is just minutes away from your home in Colorado Springs, which has more than 100 Asian restaurants -- from Vietnamese to Korean.

“We make everything fresh and from scratch. We make egg rolls fresh every day. Nothing is fried twice. We serve brown rice as well as steamed and fried. We have a large vegetarian menu. All our meats are best quality and trimmed of fat. We use white meat chicken in most of our chicken dishes,” she says, ticking off the things that make this place special.