text: Mochi wrapped in bacon? Asparagus wrapped in bacon?! Salmon mozzarella tempura, oh my!\n\nThis place has a lot of food that boggles your mind. Be adventurous and order off the items on the wall. This is the kind of stuff you see on Iron Chef. BUT, execution of many the dishes are far from Iron Chef caliber.\n\nOur group ordered a lot and I still don't remember everything I ate.\n\n* Deep Fried Prawns - The prawns are not the jumbo shrimp that many people are use to, but the small size everyone refers to as shrimp. Even then it wasn't deep fried enough where you can eat the entire shrimp as a whole, which left a bitter a taste because you can still taste the shell. We had a couple of pieces left over, which is a sin for our group to waste seafood! I guess it was just that bad.\n\n* Eggplant - I don't like eggplant, this dish reinforces that idea. It just came out what look like something you serve prisoners. Regardless, tried it and it wasn't good. Everyone, except one person like the dish, explaining it could have been served warmer, instead of lukewarm.\n\n* Mochi wrapped in Bacon - Bacon has a very salty taste and mochi has a weaker sweet taste. Combine both, and you get bacon taste. Really thats all there is to this, sure you get the chewy mochi texture, but the bacon just overpowers it. I might as well get a bacon skewer wrapped in bacon.\n\n* Salmon Mozzarella Tempura - We ordered this at the beginning of the meal, but didn't get it till almost the end of our meal. Great combo, but poor execution. Mozzarella or any cheese for that matter should be really melted and served as hot as possible. Thats why nachos, pizza, and burgers all have melted cheese because it just tastes better! The mozzarella tempura came to us lukewarm and almost cold. Just properly heating up the mozzarella could have made this dish a winner, but just became another forgotten dish. \n\n* Oysters w/ garlic butter sauce - Oysters was good, but felt the garlic butter sauce drowned the flavors of oysters. Maybe a little bit less garlic and a more watered down butter sauce would do it. \n\n* Salmon something w/ Salmon Caviar - This is a zensai or Japanese hors d'oeuvres. I believe it was salmon, but I could be wrong.  The caviar (fish eggs), just overpowered the rest of the zensai. Get the tar tar yellow tail instead.\n\n* Pork w/ eggs and ?? - I forgot what this was exactly, but the first time we ordered it, our pork was tough and dry. But ordering it for round 2 there is a world of difference. This bothers me a little when they can't deliver food consistently good.\n\n* Pork steaks with onions - The opposite happen with this one, it was good the first time we got it, and not so good the second time. First time it was cooked properly preserving the juices of the pork, but second time resulted in a more dry pork steak that didn't really have much flavor.\n\n* Wasabi Squid / Octupus - I don't like squid and octupus, but did give this a try. It was supringsly very refreshing. I thought I would get the kick from the wasabi, but I got a refreshing cool taste instead. I still wouldn't eat it again, but I'm sure those who love squid or octupus will love this dish.\n\n* Gyoza - Served hot for us. Very tasty and delicious. \n\n* Artichoke or Asparagus wrapped in Bacon - Wrap anything in bacon, and it'll probably taste good. This waste the case. Look mom, I'm eating my veggies... wrapped in BACON! \n\n* Beef Liver with bean sprouts and green onion - I don't really like eating liver, but this was one of the dishes that was executed very well.   It was very tender all the way through, and the bean sprouts and green onion just help balance the flavors of the liver.\n\n* Beef Carpaccio - Clean refreshing taste, that does a good job of balancing the strong beef flavors.\n\n* Black cod - Very flavorful and just cooked properly all the way through. This was reminiscent of the awesome sea bass at HK star.\n\n* Tar Tar Yellow Tail - Its just so hard for me to describe this, just order it, its good! You get 4 of them per order.\n\n* Honey Toast w/ Ice Cream - 5 pieces of honey bread toasted together, and the center burrowed out to fit the Vanilla ice cream. Simple, but awesome. We originally were given plastic utensils trying to divide it in our group, but that failed. Another waitress saw this fail, and gave us some metal utensils to slay the honey toasted dragon. It would have been nice if the first waitress gave us metal utensils to begin with. \n\nPhew that was a long list, there was more but I really can't remember them all. The wait staff was very friendly and refilled our drinks in a timely manner without asking. Other than the mishap with the Salmon Mozzarella Tempura and the plastic utensils, no complaints. The back of the house could use some work though, needing to deliver food consistently good and refine some items.\n\nIchiza is a cool hangout to try Japanese Izakaya food, but there are a couple of land mines along the way as you try to find the gems. Don't get blown up!