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| - Ichiza, Ichiza, Oh how i love to zee ya.....
This place is no joke, Americans will have to be adventerous to eat here... beef tongue, liver, gizzards, uni, yamakatakawatta? Green this, brown that mixed with what?
Yep, it's the real deal Japanese tapas... looks like you are in Tokyo inside, complete with paper specials stuck on the walls.
Order Shishito (sweet peppers) with any of the grilled skewered items... like the Kushi-tan (Beef Tongue) slightly chewy but tender at the same time, unusual but good. Chicken gizzard? Yep, hard to describe if you haven't had it. Crunchy? Snappy? Kinda like biting into a good dog and it snaps when you bite it....either way, a delicacy? Sprinkle some Togarashi on it and bite a pepper with it and you are really grubbin now....oh, and wash it down with some Sapporo or Kirin on tap. One of my fav sashimi is Bonito, they serve it with ponzu sauce, green onions,ginger and white onions, yummmmmmm. On the hott side, I tried the grilled black cod (butterfish) oh soo tender, flaky, buttery....had to order some rice to eat with it (gotta have my rice) the skin: salty, crispity, crunchy, my mouth waters just thinkin' about it. My neighbor shared their unagi,tempura,tuna roll thingy....the trick is to get the whole piece in your mouth to experience the plethora of complex flavors, pleasant to the palate yet tantalizing to the tastebuds... then we started sharin' beeeers together... let's just say sapporo stock went up that night, cool peeps though.
I'm not much of a sweet tooth, so I didn't try the infamous "honey toast" but it does look good...
til next time, happy Izakaya-ing!
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