Amala and Something Extra

Who else dreads Mondays? Well I know I’m one of those who do, particularly when I wanna rest and chill since APC regime no dey help matters, then my mother can just make my Mondays a living hell with house work. This time around, I had the usual busy Monday since my mum decided to give me market list (you all know what that means). Normally, I prefer to do my market waka on Fridays or Saturdays, but as I never get work, my mother has decided its part of my responsibility to help with this kinda chores. Left for the market late and I hadn’t eaten breakfast or lunch, I was extremely hungry and the only thing that I wanted was a local bukka meal.

So I set out to Iya Oyo (we all know that’s the deal especially when you need that hot Amala, ewedu, and gbegiri) it’s located at 112, Off Idris Gidado St, Wuye, Abuja, to be honest, it’s not so easy to locate maybe because it’s kinda hidden in a garden by your left just after the Forte Oil fuel station, on entering the garden you see the big sign post on the building ‘Matosh Iya Oyo Kitchen’. They have the typical bukka sitting arrangement with plastic chairs, and stainless dishes which reminded me of my boarding school (if you know, you know - LOL).

Omo, I was amazed to see a very long queue (that queue was long enough to send me back biko, which kinda rubbish) guess the long was that long since it was break time for our working class people. Anyway, I was badly hungry, and I won’t lie I was also craving the amala and ewedu which gingered me to join the queue. I didn’t like the fact that I had to wait on the queue for over 20 minutes just to get food sha but what can a girl do, I think they need to employ more hands because it doesn’t make sense that people wait so long to eat. On getting to the service point, I had to pick out plates before they served me, I also had to carry my plate to the pay point to get my bill (lol sounds like stress? Guys it was stress!!!), considering the fact that I was tremendously hungry, I didn’t find it funny.

The Amala portion was perfect for me, although I found the stew was too oily (Yoruba style I guess), it had the perfect seasoning to go well with the ewedu, and I had fish because I didn’t want the struggle with cow leg and all the orisirisi that comes with it. To be honest, I surprisingly enjoyed my meal, I guess it was worth the struggle after all, but am I going to join a long queue to get food again? Absolutely not!

Ratings: 

Ambience:          4/10
Service:              4/10
Price:                  10/10 (e cheap!!)
Food:                  8/10

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