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Abacus Inn Chinese Restaurant

+1 602-938-0528
3509 W Thunderbird Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85053 United States of America
Open Today: 11:00 AM - 09:00 PM

Amenities

Service options
  • Curbside pickup
  • No-contact delivery
  • Delivery
  • Takeout
  • Dine-in
Highlights
  • Fast service
  • Great cocktails
  • Great tea selection
Popular for
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Solo dining
Accessibility
  • Wheelchair accessible entrance
  • Wheelchair accessible parking lot
  • Wheelchair accessible restroom
  • Wheelchair accessible seating
Offerings
  • Alcohol
  • Beer
  • Cocktails
  • Coffee
  • Comfort food
  • Happy hour food
  • Healthy options
  • Late-night food
  • Organic dishes
  • Quick bite
  • Small plates
  • Vegan options
  • Vegetarian options
  • Wine
Dining options
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Dessert
  • Seating
Amenities
  • Bar onsite
  • Restroom
Atmosphere
  • Casual
  • Cozy
Crowd
  • Groups
Planning
  • Accepts reservations
Payments
  • Credit cards
  • Debit cards
  • NFC mobile payments
Children
  • Good for kids
  • High chairs
Parking
  • Free parking lot
  • Free street parking
  • Parking

Best WLM Reviews

This is our new favorite place the food is delicious, well prepared and the to go servings have all the goodies you need plenty of utensils, napkins, soy sauce, mustard. We had the shrimp fried rice, two egg rolls, and general TSO chicken. Maybe some duck sauce on the next and that will do. Everything nice and hot it was great and we will be back.
The workers were friendly, The service was just a bit slow, My sister & brother in law food was very good, My meat was a little though ???? & the appetizer was very good
We had Sesame chicken, Chicken curry, shrimp appetizer, and Chicken teriyaki,
First time at Abacus Inn and it was a very good experience! Service was on point. The food was really good as well. The quality of the dishes was on point- I felt like I was eating more meat vs the breading lol - I would say, they could use a some-sort of music playing in the background though.. ???? overall, the food was good and definitely would go again ????. Aside from that, it's next to Lenny's burger lol
1. Almond chicken
2. Volcano chicken style
3. Beef w/broccoli
4. Lemon chicken
All from the lunch menu that comes with fried rice/or white, soup, egg roll, wonton ????
We come here a lot and have been for the past 5 years and everytime the service, food and music is top notch. AJ is usually our waiter, and he's amazing and makes the best Zombies!
I'm not big on white rice, but I absolutely LOVEA theirs. The Curry Chicken and Beef Chowmein were phenomenal.
Also, tonight they had such an awesome playlist going with all types of music, but the sneaky halloween songs had us SO excited. Love this place SO much. ❤️
To preface my review, I had my order fulfilled through Uber Eats. I ordered 2 lunch combos, the orange chicken and the Abacus Special Chicken as well as the BBQ rib. The orange chicken sauce was very flavorful and the chicken used was nice and tender, not dry. I can tell the sauce here is not some generic orange chicken sauce, they definitely added some extra spices to it and it among the most flavorful pieces of orange chicken I have had. My only problem with the dish is that the chicken wasn't crispy anymore. I understand that with fried chicken that's covered in sauce, the timeline to where it loses it's crispiness is fleeting the moment it is boxed up, but I have had chicken at other places like June House and Liyuen that have survived 30+ minute journeys that still maintain their crispiness.
This leads me to the Abacus Special Chicken, it's another fried chicken dish tossed in sauce. The preparation of the chicken is different here as it appears to be filets of chicken that's been fried, cut up, and tossed in sauce. Unlike the orange chicken, the integrity of the crispiness remained intact and the sauce is more of a savory sauce than sweet, but I didn't find it as flavorful as the orange chicken. Both dishes to me are about a 4/5.
The spring rolls and the fried wontons (just fried wonton wrapper, no cream cheese inside) as part of the lunch combos were really good, although as they are pretty common staples of an Americanized Chinese restaurant I didn't expect anything less than good. 5/5
Lastly is the BBQ rib. For 11 bucks I got 4 pieces of rib, 2 smaller pieces and 2 bigger pieces. Not the best of value in my opinion, but how was the flavor? If you came in expecting char siu flavor, it's definitely not that. It's sweeter and has a bit of a sour taste (ketchupy) that I don't find present in traditional char siu. Authenticity aside, I think it's a interesting take on Chinese BBQ and if you go in not expecting anything authentic, it was ok, but there's better places if you are wanting Chinese BBQ, 3/5
Overall I will return but will probably skip the ribs next time.
Me and the family have been looking for a good Chinese restaurant and I think we found it. It was very superb, I had teriyaki chicken with broccoli and rice and my husband had orange chicken. I also had a Mai tai and he had a zombie, which were both good and strong.
I heard good things about this place. So finally broke down and tried it. Let's just say. Glad I only got a lunch special. It's disgusting. The rice had no flavor, had to add some fried rice packet seasons to give a little flavor. I had more peppers, onions, and pineapple then the sweet and sour chicken, literally maybe 4 pieces. On top of that it was soggy, even parts with no sauce on it. I live 4 blocks away from place. The egg roll was like eating dough, not much inside of it. It came with a wonton too, that was like eating plastic, kid you not, I couldn't even bite it . Needless to say, I won't be eating here again. ????????????????
Really good food!! Came out hot and fresh. Service was polite and quick to check on us and bring anything we needed. Complimentary dessert pastry and they had sent me a $10 off for my birthday, never tried them before. Very glad I did! Bf had the abacus special and hot tea. We shared the fresh house made potstickers and the bbq roast pork was gloriously thick pieces. I had sweet and sour pork and it was the perfect light crispy fry with really good sauce.

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Opening Hours

Monday 11:00 AM - 09:00 PM
Tuesday 11:00 AM - 09:00 PM
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 09:00 PM
Thursday 11:00 AM - 09:00 PM
Friday 11:00 AM - 09:30 PM
Saturday 11:00 AM - 09:30 PM
Sunday 02:00 AM - 09:00 PM

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