Shangri La Asian Bistro & Sushi Bar

Reviews

• Scot M.

  star star star star star_border 14 September 2026

  This was my first time here, passing through Lodi. It's actually located downtown where it's a nice few city blocks.
  
  They have a really big menu. A lot to choose from here.
  
  My go to is always Teriyaki chicken and rice. It had good flavor and I was pleased.
  
  Lots of seating and a full bar with games on.

• Rhea C.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 1 September 2026

  This is the first time I came here during lunch with a coworker.
  
  Pros: they had a great and plenty of options on the menu from sushi, Chinese food, and Thai. They offered a variety of adult beverages. The location is in the middle of downtown Lodi. I ordered the lunch salmon teriyaki bento box. The salmon was pretty good!
  
  Cons: the service here is really slow. It took forever for our food to come. Only got my drink and a soup and had our waitress pack the rest of our food to go. I ordered a Thai tea and oh lortt - I'll tell you now not to order Thai tea at a Japanese restaurant.

• Olivia G.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 30 August 2026

  I can't believe I am actually writing this. My family and I used to be regulars at Shangri La. we were there at least once a week and always had great food. Then, I had kids and moved out of Lodi, so it's been years since I have been back! Boy, has this place has changed! I had heard that they had changed ownership, and that would make sense after today's terrible experience.
  
  My husband and two daughters (5 and 7) and I walked down from the movie theater for dinner. The service was okay-although it seemed like there were a TON of people working there, some just sitting around. We ordered our food, and there the trouble began.
  
  The kids had a way overpriced kids menu item-$9.50. One of them had the teriyaki salmon. It was burnt and inedible. It was also on top of a pile of vegetables, squished in with salad and a scoop of rice. The other one had teriyaki beef. It was too hard for her to chew. Yes, too HARD.
  
  My husband got the chicken teriyaki, which he shared with my two hungry kids. He said it was "fine", but it looked old and dried out to me.
  
  I had two rolls, the Lodi roll and the crunch roll. They were okay, but not the same as I remembered.
  
  In addition, we got an order of edamame and gyoza. Again, it was okay.
  
  Add the waters we had and our bill was over $70 (once tip was added). In my opinion, this is way over priced for the quality.

• Josiah H.

  star star star star_border star_border 22 August 2026

  I came here this past weekend with several friends and business associates, for a nice group dinner. We arrived a few minutes to 6:30 which is when we made reservations, and we waited maybe 10 minutes for our table. We originally have a reservation for 10 people at 6 but pushed it back 30 minutes, and I think when we arrived they were just waiting for several smaller table to open up. So that we could combine them for our party, and while we waited some of us sat near the hostess area. While several others sat at the bar since it's the really cold by the waiting area since it's right by the front door.
  
  Once seated we all looked over the menus, and based on the meal descriptions tried to envision what they looked like. Since not to many of the items had pictures, and with sushi what one roll is names at one restaurant. Can be something completely different somewhere else. But we finally all decided on what we'd have. Our waitress was very friendly and gave several of us her recommendations as far as if that item was or wasn't very popular. Which was really helpful as she also noted weather an item wasn't very good, and steered us towards a better option in some cases. Like with my girlfriend and I wanting to order the crispy albacore; our waitress noted is wasn't on the menu actually anymore because it wasn't very popular so we opted for the BBQ albacore instead as an appetizer.
  
  Everyone at the table ended up ordering something different whether it be a standard meal or various rolls. Because I couldn't decide on a roll that really jumped out at me, I just decided to play it safe and got the sesame chicken. While my girlfriend ordered the Kobe roll for herself.
  
  I was a kind of disappointed in with the deep fried ice cream, as the ice cream portion seemed really large in its presentation. But it actually was a really small portion of vanilla ice cream, with a huge deep fried crust was wasn't any special. And my girlfriend and I end up breaking off almost all of it and setting it to the side of our place. The other portion of the dessert was a small portion of whipped cream with a little chocolate sauce on it and a maraschino cherry adorned on top of it. But the price which was less than $7 I can't really complain too much, but again it wasn't something I'd recommend or order again.
  
  Overall we all had a good time during dinner, and the meals themselves were pretty good. The food just wasn't as good as many of Asian/Sushi restaurants that I've been to before. And I've just honestly had better elsewhere with what we ordered here. So because I didn't have any issues with my meal, and it was ok and not great. That's the only reason I'm giving it 3-stars, because I can't really say I was a fan and that I'd go out of my way to go back. But our hostess did make for a good experience.

• Monique S.

  star star star star star 21 August 2026

  I went to Shangri La last night, and I was very pleased. The service was fast and good. The food was great and decently priced. I got a bistro box for $14 and it was a ton of food; I went home with another meal's worth of leftovers. I'll definitely be back here.