IBACHI - Ibadan Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Oyo State

📍: Ibachi Chinese Restaurant (@ibadan_chinese_restaurant) Bodija, favos area.

LOCATION: Not difficult to locate at all. Immediately you turn into that junction at favos bodija, turn right and you’ll find the building standing tall at the end of that turning, just after Olivers cafe.

AMBIENCE : Nice and Serene. The decor is nice and has the “Chinese restaurant feel” to it. They have an outdoor area where you can take pictures too, so that’s a plus☺️🤩 We ordered Appetizer and Main dish 📌The Corn and Chicken soup (#3,000)- This was my first time taking this so it tasted a bit weird but my partner said it was really good. The portion was really good too. Just enough for 2 people. I’m not very sure I’ll order it again though 🥴

📌 The Vegetable spring rolls (#1,200)- This is just the normal spring rolls in your small chops pack and I honestly don’t know how I feel about eating 4 pieces of spring rolls for that price. It tasted just Okay. I was impressed or anything and the sauce that came with it definitely made it better.

📌Beef Fried rice (#2,200)- This price was for the medium portion, the large cost #3,000 but because we had appetizer, this was enough for the 2 of us. If you’ll be ordering only the main dish then you should go for the large portion for 2 people. If I’m being fair, I enjoyed this. It was nothing out of the ordinary but let’s just say I was happy to be eating something else that wasn’t the corn soup 🥺

📌Chicken Curry Sauce (#3,000): Well, I wasn’t expecting so much because and it was basically what the name suggested, chunks of chicken in curry sauce. Made the beef fried rice more enjoyable. 📌Chapman (#1,000) 📌Water (#350) for one 50cl bottle 😭😭(Yes, that same one)

*Food came in about 15 minutes as opposed to the 20 minutes we were told so that was good. My Ratings; ✅ Customer service was okay (8/10) ✅ Food was really good (7/10) ✅ Ambience (8/10)

This place is perfect for a date night or late lunch with your partner.

Would I come back? Erm maybe. PS: Check and calculate everything you bought as we were over billed and called their attention to it and it was...

Ibachi (Ibadan Chinese) Restaurant is located somewhere around Bodija, quite easy to locate. You can also follow the map.

Exterior: Just basic, seeing the exterior wouldn’t encourage you to go in, especially if you love fancy places. The parking space is spacious enough for a number of cars at a time.

Interior: Perfect example of “don’t judge a book by it’s cover”. The ambience inside the restaurant is soo great, perfect!! Perfect, I’ll say.

Customer service: Good Customer service, but, it can be better. I’ll say 4/5 for their customer service.

Timing: For this, I would say they should stop giving times that they can’t stick with. I understand that they just sort out most of the foods when order is placed, and that would definitely take some time, so, I’ll suggest they just give appropriate time they know the food would last for. Instead of telling us 20 minutes, when they know it would take 40/45 minutes.

Food: Food was great, I enjoyed everything I had that day. They know their onions well, I would say. I had corn soup for starters, it was my first time and it tasted really nice, if you love pepper, you would definitely want to add some of that to the soup.

The Spiced chicken wings I had was great too, but, was a little over seasoned. Best thing I had that day was the Chinese Fried rice with the sauce(beef, chicken and shrimp in black pepper). This sauce!!! E mad🔥🔥🔥.

In all, it’s a great place to visit if you’re in Ibadan and you want to do...

The food - chicken chow mein, spicy chicken wing sauce and chicken fried rice - was aromatic, tasty [appropriately seasoned] nicely portioned and relatively affordable.

The drinks - Taro Boba and Long Island Iced Tea - were tasty and refreshing, I could taste the Dano Milk in the boba and that was a tad off-putting but didn’t ruin the overall flavor. The Long Island iced tea had strong notes of tequila, rum and gin which was appreciated.

The ambience was nice, there was an oldies playlist going the entire time and it was personally, a very welcome vibe.

The wait time wasn’t horrid, but it could definitely have been better.

The menu was pretty limited in my opinion, super basic dishes that could very easily get repetitive. A more robust menu would be a great improvement.

I didn’t happen to notice any accessibility options for disabled patrons and that sucked.

The toilets were nice and clean. It was a decent experience, overall. And I’d recommend Ibachi to anyone looking for basic but tasty Chinese cuisine.

P.s. Ibachi’s social media account seems very poorly managed and could be a turnoff for potential patrons. Better social media handling just might go a long way for their...