Chaima's African Cuisine food truck — Restaurant in Omaha

My husband and I came to try the Fufu with egussi, as many of our friends recommended this place and this dish specifically.

We came in and were standing around by ourselves for a couple minutes to be greeted and told to sit anywhere and were given menus. Looked over the menus and waited 15-20 minutes for the waitress to come back to our table to take our orders. We ordered the fufu with egussi and my husband got fried chicken with cabbage and rice and an appetizer of fried plantains.

His food came out in 20min. then my food took another 15-20 minutes after his. By the time I got my food, I’ve already grown very inpatient just to be very disappointed in the egussi. It didn’t taste seasoned at all. They used canned spinach. The after taste left in your mouth after eating canned spinach overpowered the whole dish. Then to top it off, they dumped the egussi over hard fried scraps of chicken, the chicken wasn’t made with the egussi. It was hard to break the hard fried chicken a part to mix with the egussi and fufu, the small pieces of chicken was hard as bark and unseasoned (also can tasted the bitterness of the old grease on the chicken, should consider changing out). Then a few minutes after finally receiving my meal, the appetizer came out (fried plantains).

By then I got up to stand at the payment station/bar to wait for the waitress to pay for our food and get to-go trays cause my appetite was shot at this point… The waitress never checks to make sure you’re good, ask if the food is good, if you need anything else. You have to chase her down for service… No smiles, felt as if were an inconvenience there. Music was good though.

Just an all around unpleasant first experience, waste of my money and afternoon.

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I want to start by touching on the food, because that is the main reason I went, I am a pretty strict reviewer and the food was good, so if you only care about taste, it is a good place to go. Atmosphere is definitely interesting. Staff was amazingly nice. Could use some upkeep and maybe tighten the design a bit more. Ground was ignored, food and even a butter knife sat on the ground the entire of my 2 hour stay. No music, just silence. I was the only customer dining too. Lucky I brought someone with because the first appetizer, the Plantains came out roughly 15-20 minutes after we ordered and they were amazing. The pineapple beverage was the best part of the meal, it was absolutely delicious! I am however a little disappointed with the wait time. Roughly an hour after the plantains we were getting restless waiting on our second appetizer. Fried Chicken and French Fries, both are fast and easy foods that honestly should have been done before the plantains. We got another pineapple drink and waited another 15 minutes and fufu with egussi sauce came out first. And right after the fried chicken and French fries. Fries and wings were fantastic. The fries were perfect and best food out of the meal. Fufu was okay, but the egussi with goat meat was not the best. Goat meat good, but the greens in the egussi was off and tasted closer to canned spinach mixed with alfalfa. But honestly I give this place about a 3 star. I will try again sometime and...

Only giving one star because that’s the lowest possible amount I could give. (FYI I’m writing this as I’m sitting at the restaurant) When coming to this restaurant, make sure to bring a blanket and pillow, because you’ll be able to take several naps by the time you actually get your food. We arrived at the restaurant at opening time. There were others who arrived then as well. They kept us all standing outside as they looked at us until almost 10 minutes past opening time.

Finally they unlocked the doors without telling anyone they had been unlocked. We came in and ordered. An our later, I’m still waiting for my food. Everyone else has been served, and I’m still waiting. The ice has thoroughly melted in my now watered down drink, and I’m probably gonna have to take the food home. Okay good just arrived.

The peanut butter soup. The version I make for Kwanzaa each year tastes LOADS better than this. Oh and by the way the fufu is freezing cold and the soup, even after waiting an hour, is lukewarm.

Chicken and French fries took almost an hour and a half to bring out. And taste wise, none of the food is something I’d pay for ever again. I do not plan on paying full price for this. It’s not good. Not disgusting, but not good at all.

OH! I almost forgot, when we came in, there was a large dead cricket by our table. We told the lady about it. Twice. She said “Oh okay”. An hour and a half later, we are still eating our food next to a large...