Icho Izakaya - Temple City

**Ambience:** The private rooms are great for large groups, family gatherings, and showing hospitality. **Price:** **Menu:** There's a lot to explore, with a diverse mix of Japanese, Taiwanese, and Chinese dishes. **Salad:** Nothing special, but on the pricey side. **Fried Seasonal Vegetables:** A Chinese dish that isn't commonly found on many restaurant menus, making it a unique offering. **Shrimp Tempura (5 pieces):** I ordered this for the children. **Deluxe Sushi Boat (for 4-5 people):** Fresh, but fairly expensive. **Hummus:** Tasty. **Crab:** Fresh, but I didn’t try this dish. **Grilled Squid:** It was served a bit cold and I wouldn't reorder it. **Grilled Yellow Collar:** Good. **Salt and Pepper Chicken:** Too many bones and the portion was small. **Salt and Pepper Intestines:** A bit dry and also small. **Fried Rice:** Very mild in flavor. **Dessert (Hot Tapioca Pudding):** Good and not overly sweet. My family enjoyed the dinner overall, but there was one issue: the Lazy Susan turntable in our room was not working, which made it difficult to share the dishes on the table. I hope that gets fixed.

The service is friendly, and the staff member patiently suggests a selection of fresh seafood. The seafood is exceptionally fresh and definitely worth a taste.

This restaurant is perfect for impressing clients. The atmosphere is appealing, the service is quite good, and the food is beautifully presented.

Great service. The servers were very attentive and explained their sets very well. I had the Sashimi Wazen who has a huge part. The sashimi were very thick cuts, I love a little of everything and the sause pairing them on the white fish was pretty good. Tempura was amazing with the savory diving shower. The Chawanmushi has some shells and fish cakes, although I am not a big fan of it personally.

Tried out this place due to a recommendation from some friends. And came out here to celebrate my grandmother's birthday. Be aware if you bring a cake, it probably won't be in a fridge because our birthday cake was room temp by the time we were done with our meal.. Our order: Sashimi boat, salmon fried rice and tempura plate The sashimi boat, which supposedly feeds 4 people.. We had a party of 4 adults and 1 kid. For $200, it seems pricey, but there's A LOT of sashimi on there. All the fish and shellfish were fresh. On the boat, there were the generics of yellow tail, salmon, and tuna; but also they had a whole small lobster sashimi, whole small snapper, marinated fish liver, a few slices of geoduck, and two sweet shrimp. A nice to have would be that the boat is organized that you can pick from it from both sides.. The carcass of the lobster, snapper, and the shrimp gets made into a second dish. We did porridge for the lobster (a little too peppery for my taste), and the shrimp/snapper carcass was fried. The tempura was well made, batter was light and everything came out hot. Would've been nice if there was a spoon for the sauce.. The salmon fried rice was also a bit pepper for my taste but it was still good. I'll probably go back again but this time only ordering the sashimi boat or a chirashi bowl for two people, then we wouldn't need to order anything else.