Being Asian and having eaten Japanese food all over the world, I would NOT recommend SHOGUN to anyone. We had to wait 15 minutes before a waitress came and took drink orders, and the speed of the service only picked up when another party(of 5) came in and filled up the table we were at. Yes, you have to share a table with complete strangers and they try to tie you up until the table is full. The chef we had was really bad, he started the ""show"" and dropped the spatula every 3 seconds, obviously very unprofessional, and once it even flew out and almost knocked over the sauce bowls on the table. They charged an extra $2.50 if you wanted to have FRIED RICE instead of regular white rice, and it was sooooo extremely salty I could barely swallow it, the NON-JAPANESE chef obviously had no training on how much soy sauce to put in the food. Even the white steamed rice was disappointing because it wasn't authentic Japanese sticky rice, it was like Jasmine rice or some sort of cheap long grain rice. COME ON! It's a Japanese restaurant! the least they could do was have authentic sticky rice and not some cheap brand rice! The chicken and steak were ok, but still too much teriyaki sauce. the vegetables were even worse than the fried rice, swimming in soy sauce and just impossible to swallow, my sodium intake of the meal must have exceeded the daily recommended by 10000000%! So 2 hours, a billion grams of sodium, and $100 later, the best part of the meal was the green tea ice cream... which wasn't even that good but compared to everything else it had to be the best part of the meal. All in all, food was nasty, everything was EXTREMELY overpriced, and I will never go back there again. I would have rather gone to the food court at the Galleria Mall and gotten a Chicken Teriyaki with real steamed white rice for $6.
Pros: parking, service
Cons: Non-authentic and gross food; EXTREMELY OVERPRICED
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