Japan Express
Durham, NC · Japanese restaurant
- Address
- Japan Express, 3409 Hillsborough Rd # K, Durham, NC 27705
- Phone
- (919) 384-9897
- Status
- Closed · Opens 11 AM
Japan Express is a restaurant located in Durham, NC. It is one of 883 restaurants listed in Durham. Its 3.3-star rating is slightly below the Durham city average of 4.2 stars. There are 10 photos associated with this location.
Hours
| Saturday | 11 AM–10 PM |
Customer Reviews
One star. My family loves hibachi, and honestly, hibachi should not be very hard to get right. Unfortunately, this experience missed the mark by a wide margin. Hibachi is supposed to be cooked fresh on a hot grill, with flavor built in real time. What we received instead tasted like everything had already been cooked long before, then scooped into a container when it was time for pickup. Oh wait, that's because I sit and watch them scoop everything out of a pre-cooked container at pickup . Pre-cooked meat, rice, and vegetables does not equal hibachi. It equals leftovers. Yes, the service was fast. I will give credit there. But speed does not make up for food that was extremely dry and nearly flavorless. There was no real sauce presence, no grill flavor, and nothing that resembled the fr
Every order comes with a severe case of the bubble guts and Hershey squirts. My boyfriend and I ordered pickup from this restaurant off of Doordash. We sat in the parking lot waiting for it to show 'done' for nearly 10 minutes after it was supposed to be ready. I guess they assumed we would walk in at the time regardless? They could not get the order name right despite there only being 2 bags and 2 very different names. The food itself was very disappointing. The chicken was rubbery, the steak was tough, and the rice didn't have much flavor. For some reason the white sauce was given to us in bags and my crab rangoon was...well look at it. I thought we were given egg rolls by mistake but no, that is a glorified cream cheese burrito. I will admit that this experience was very funny, but n
I am a diabetic so rice is a no no for me. I ordered a hibachi chicken with no rice and add extra vegetables. I also told them I would pay extra if I have to. They gave me a dish that was 80% onions and they were old and slimy. When I complained the owner looked under the shelf to see who I was and then gave me 5 pieces of broccoli to compensate my complaint. I felt like he was judging me based off of how I looked
I should have looked at reviews before ordering. The service was fine. Everyone working the front seemed to be in their late teens. No complaints. Young man answered the questions I had about the food. The food was absolutely not worth returning for another visit. I ordered one hibachi steak and one hibachi chicken and shrimp. This was the driest steak I have EVER had. You can see in the picture how dry it is. Without sauce it would have been inedible. The shrimp did not taste fresh and I could not eat more than a few bites of it. The rice was fine; the only decent things in the plates. Portions are small. I usually don't eat an entire hibachi plate at once. The plates look bulky only because there is a thick later of onions and zucchini under the protein. This is among the worst hibachi
Called in due to the current pandemic for pick-up for hibachi streak, chicken and shrimp, shrimp tempura, and fried beef dumplings. Employee was very quick and to the point on the phone and said 15-20 minute wait. A bit slow at the window to grab the food since the cashier is also answering the phone and taking orders. Stopped ringing me out to answer phone and work with someone bringing food up from the back whom did not have a face mask on. Kitchen staff did have a face mask on though. The 5 Fried dumplings were tasty and hot. The 3 shrimp tempura came with a deep-fried onion rings, zucchini spice, and piece of broccoli. The shrimp was exactly what you would expect though heavily breaded. As for the streak, shrimp, and chicken hibachi; - Chicken was a bit on the cool side, and very p
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