Izakaya Uosan

This Japanese restaurant in Honolulu is truly one of the best! The grilled oyster is a standout, a perfect blend of creaminess and freshness. The uni rice is a delight, with a unique texture that enhances the experience. While the beef tongue has a slight sourness, it's the best in its own way. The ice cream is decent but nothing extraordinary. If you plan to visit, don't miss out on the heavenly goodness of the grilled oyster – a must-try!

The fish quality and the design of seafood based dishes are of great quality. It’s an expensive Izakaya, but I got what I paid for. The fishes are imported from Japan and their taste worths it. With the relatively short distance from Hawaii to Japan compared to mainland US, it’s also more cost efficient to do so and for customers to enjoy the fresh flavor here. Particularly love the thick cut snapper with slightly grilled skin in the chef’s sashimi cut and the uni yoke rice. The uni rice goes great with mustard too if you wanna bring in some refresher. The chef’s seasoning skews slightly to the heavy side. Personally I think the oyster can take less soy sauce, same for the abu tora sushi. Overall, very enjoyable.

Love the steamed uni best! The foir gras with fatty balablala is also very good, the goose liver is well done I love it ☺️☺️☺️ The uni truffle rice is also very tasty, however my personal feel is that the truffle smell is a little bit too strong I can't get the uni tasty, ye this is my first tim eat uni, so , to tasty the uni, I ordered the steamed uni, it`s my favorite this time. Yep. I prefer light flavor, some food in Hawaii are too salty to me . Just fyi.