Oryza Asian Cuisine & Bar

As a true Celiac person with horrible allergies, my family and I eat here and never have had an allergy issue or gluten issue! In fact some of the best Chinese food we have had away from the west coast.

I have eaten here twice. Both times the food was excellent, and the service friendly and prompt. Great menu!

Ordered Twice Cooked Pork yesterday only to open box to what to be the ingredients to make it yourself. NOTHING like the picture, chopped cabbage, some dried pork, carrots and a yellow box of rice along with a bowl of hot oil stuff. I guess they expect you to fire up your home WOK and finish the job. Don’t waste your money here.
How about for the price paid, try this order again. Just sad.

Laid back and great variety. My wife and I each got dishes that came out fresh, not heavy sauce but full of flavor. We'll be back for sure to try more

The Korean Bulgogi and Crab Rangoon were delicious! I'm definitely going to come here the next time I visit Iowa City:)

I’ve dined in, ordered takeout, and delivery many times over the last few years.this is one of my fav spots in iowa city! Great service always

I received my egg drop soup and there was a roach in it. The waitress tried to play it off like it was scrappings from the wok. But I clearly saw the legs and antennas. She invited us to go in the kitchen and look (not so professional) We left and so did our appetite for Chinese food.

Food was good, staff helpful, delivery was quick, food portion good. I had the duck Fried rice and curry fried rice.

This place was a BIG disappointment.

We are not from the area and had stumbled upon Oryza since we were staying nearby. Service was ok, the food however was questionable. Our eggrolls were greasy to each bite, crab Rangoon meehhh. Pho was in an extremely salty clear broth. Bun bo hue tasted like canned tomato soup. Everything was not pleasant.

Now we had brought the concern up to our server and the most she could “help” with was to take one pho off (we ordered 2) and to remake one, even after we stated the broth was super salty. Let’s keep in mind we ate 10% of our food, so no thanks to more salty pho. Still paid for everything else and left hungry. We do not recommend to anyone and we will not be back. Due to lack of service and flavor.

Family got very sick after eating here. The Shoyu ramen tasted like boiled mop water and the “pork belly” was tough and smelled like dirt. The sesame chicken was beyond questionable. For some reason they have a turtle in a little dirty tank that has zero enrichment. Previous reviews indicate the owner will “make improvements” to the tank but it’s clear they won’t.

We stopped here for dinner en route to visit family seven hours away.

The service was great. The atmosphere was that of a bar, but the food was anything but bar food!

Potstickers were good but the Crab Rangoon was one of the best I have eaten. It is folded differently from most places but who cares when it is that good!

I had Bibimbap. It is really good but the last time I had it I was at a Korean BBQ in northern Japan that was phenomenal. So it could be the best on this side of the earth for all I know.

My wife had orange chicken and rice noodles. I am not a fruity chicken fan but she loved it. I also never get noodles unless in soup, But, I ate most of her Rice Noodles and would make it a point when coming up this way just to stop to get them.

The food is well worth the time and money!

The absolute worst place to eat pho! I order chicken pho with egg noodles.broth tasted liked watery chicken noodle soup and chicken was cold! I ordered edamame and it was cold.ice cold. I asked it it was supposed to be served this way and was told that how we serve it here? Who eats cold edamame with no salt? And my husband's order of Thai basil chicken was equally as bad!

Great food! I drive by it everyday and was excited to finally try it. Did not disappoint! The bulgogi and the shoyu ramen were tasty!

Great tofu spring rolls. Really, really good tofu yellow curry! Good, FAST service. My partner enjoyed the duck fried rice. Pleasant server. Love that the menu has veggie, vegan, spicy & gluten-free options easily identifiable.

Great dining place. Staffs are welcoming and lovely people. The food is great. I love their chilli chicken!

Food was overall good, but please please get a larger tank with more enrichment for your turtle. In the few minutes I was waiting for my order, I watched as the poor thing was climbing up the sides of the enclosure and ultimately got stuck trying to get out of the water because there was no room for it to turn around or move. It’s arm was twisted around and I had to reach into the tank to help it, but it got stuck again shortly thereafter because of the small tank size. It was frankly devasting to watch and left a bad taste in my mouth. Please take better care of this pet or rehome it, it doesn’t deserve to suffer for the sake of “atmosphere”.