Formosa Chinese Restaurant

Hands down best Chinese spot in Aqaba and to me it beats the spots that are in Amman too! The owner is the most welcoming guy ever I genuinely have so much respect for him🙏🏻. The food itself surprises me everytime I'm there it has original flavour, what I'd recommend the most is their fried rice, the spicy fried shrimps, definitely the meat dumplings as for the seafood soup it wasn't my favourite but my sister liked it. The decor is rly rly nice and they also play good music.
In general I highly recommend🙏🏻❤.

Fabulous Chinese cuisine, authentic with a perfect splash of Arabic influence. The fried calamari, chicken balls and dumplings are top notch, and the owner and the chef import their sauce from china! Drinks in the bar are delicious, the bartender is very friendly and the vibe is great. 100% recommend checking Formosa out!

Good and tasty food for reasonable price ...service was great...nice ambience...👍💪👍

Pretty good chinese restaurant in aqaba. If you are craving for some asian food, this place is a must visit. The price is on the higher side, but the taste does not disappoint. The owner and staff are friendly. If you come in big groups be ready for the wait.

Wow wow wow wow wow! Authentic Chinese food in Jordan?! I would have never expected it and certainly didn't expect the beef noodle soup (紅燒牛肉麵) to be one of the best I've ever had! I'm from Los Angeles and would consider myself a connoisseur of 紅燒牛肉麵. I didn't even have anything close to as delicious in Taiwan except for the one I had at the airport priority lounge before I left! Bravo!!! My number one favorite is still from Bull Demon King (BDK), but this one at least doesn't burn your face off and has the right level of spicyness and a wonderful deep flavor in the soup that's difficult to achieve! Normally it's supposed to be served with lamb at this restaurant, but sadly they ran out of that so I didn't get to try that version.

Either way, everything we ordered on the menu was fantastic, easy to read in several languages, and served with a smile! There was even a picture book so people could just point and order what they wanted! It's like they thought of everything!

That's only the beginning! The rest of the food we had was fantastic also! We learned that the owners:

• grow their own bok choy
• get their sauces from Asia
• speak 5 languages
• also own a dive shop
• serve food at all their hours of opening (perfect for us hungry tourists)
• serve alcohol (even during Ramadan, which is super hard to find across the country)
• have a great bar upstairs with a terrace, pool table (complete with local pool sharks), darts, and a karaoke room that had great ventilation!!!!!!!

We had an absolutely wonderful time there and stayed from 5 PM till 1 AM getting to know the family's owners who ensured everyone who came was having a wonderful time! I surprisingly even got to practice more of elementary Mandarin! Service was absolutely impeccable and if I could, I wish I could import this whole place back home with me to the San Francisco area because goodness knows the Taiwanese food isn't nearly as good there!!

Can't recommend people go anywhere else more than this hidden gem! I almost never eat Chinese food outside of America or China if I can help it when I'm traveling and I'm soooooooo happy we made an exception to discover this wonderful surprise! I rarely leave reviews, but I'm more than happy to write this one so that they keep getting more business and recognition! I'll be raving about it to everyone I know and definitely plan to be back when I return to Jordan someday!
頭號! 不得了! 真的非常好! ❤

Best Chinese food I’ve ever had. So fresh, so light, no sodium, soooo tasty! Just perfect! My favorite Chinese restaurant ever! The restaurant atmosphere is also very lovely. Thank you so much for the amazing experience 🙏🏼❤🙏🏼❤

Amazing fresh Chinese cuisine in central Aqaba. The food at Formosa was great. The food was flavorful, and the staff were all very friendly. From dumplings to main dishes, it was all really fresh. A definite must when you’re in Aqaba.

Realy tasty azian food, many different dishes and Authentic atmosphere. Kind and helpfull staff.

Great place to eat, upstairs is a lovely hidden lounge with darts and a full size pool table.

After many days of eating local food (which we love) we felt like eating something different! We were recommended by a staff member of our hotel and it was totally worth it!! Tasty, fresh and delicious

Amazing. Sechuan cuisine . Great food. We had the beef dumplings & Shrimp Dumplings, spring rolls, Chichken Cashew, Beef in Sechuan sauce, fried noodles & Egg fried rice . It was all delicious the service was excellent. I wish i could cone to Aqaba frequently so I can come back to eat here.

This is one of my absolute favourite Chinese restaurants. Authentic, cozy, and good value for money. Anything you order is prob treat!

Your best go to Chinese Restaurant not only in Aqaba but Jordan. Excellent quality, consistent, authentic flavors... Family owned and operated :)

Beat Chinese food in Aqaba, very tasty, and the service was good! Definitely coming back again soon

We were looking for a place to drink something and found some stairs leading up with a beer sign. It didnt look that inviting and we were sure that we made a mistake, but the friendly waiter came up and offered to have a look around the upper floor if we would like to stay. At that time we were the only guests on the upper floor and ordered two large draft beers. They came very fast and were nicely cold. We had a view on the inner yard of the Aqaba gateway and sat there quite a while. It was surprisingly nice up there and the smell of the food from downstairs was amazing. Thank you for this nice stay at your upper terrasse!

Absolutely recommending, Formosa soup was excellent, big also small, Dumplings was very good, kindly staff

The most delicious Chinese food in Jordan. I miss this place and enjoy coming to Aqaba.

Been here twice and just couldn’t live without the beef noodles soup 😍 I even ordered it from the restaurant and it got delivered hot and delicious! I’m glad there’s a place like this in Aqaba

Popped in on the off chance. Food was delicious, great beer and wonderful staff. You would be a fool to pass on by.

Very very good food! I went with my family and we all loved everything. I dont usually notice differences between chinese restaurants but this one Is really something else. I reccomend meat dishes, the meat is really soft and nice and the taste is never too strong but very equilibrated. I recommend everything!!!