Craving Thai Food Truck

The food trucks in Kauai are serious contenders for quality dining experience. At least in the south side I figure more business is done out of food trucks and what is described as “hole in the wall” kind of restaurants than the typical sit down style restaurants. We went to Craving Thai because of the vegetarian options and also their advertised flexibility in customizing. We were not disappointed. There were quite a few vegetarian options and we settled on the vegetable rolls, Pad Thai and a Thai curry dish where we substituted meat with tofu. The vegetable wraps were delectable. They had tofu, rice, carrots and some other veggies served with a side of peanut sauce. Very tasty. The Pad Thai was good though different from the Pad Thai I typically find at Thai restaurants. Their noodles were much smaller potions and not the typical flat, rice Pad Thai noodles. Their sauce was very bland. Pad Thai comes with a strong sauce liberally smothering the noodles. They had some veggies and a side of peanut crumbles. They also did not provide for the side of sauces that typically come with the dish. Then again this is a food truck and perhaps unfair to compare them with the typical restaurant cuisine. The taste was good though. It was dry but I finished the dish with some appreciation of their flavors. The tofu curry dish was a disappointment. It was essentially peanut sauce and fried tofu with a seasoning of some spices. The combination of tofu, peanut, coconut milk made it very heavy and the taste was average. I would give it no more than a 5/10. The prices of the dishes are on the higher side. But that is typical of Kauai, considering that it’s a tourist town and expensive to begin with (gas is about a $1 more per gallon than in mainland). The server was very helpful and accommodating They had all these funny meme like statements around the serving window that was kind of endearing. Would I go back? Yes, I think it certainly worth a second try.

Red curry and rice was PERFECT; just hot enough to make my mouth burn without dampening the great flavors! I love that it had ALL of the vegetables, not just some, to go with the chicken. Thought I was going to save some for later - no way - couldnt stop - and wanted get every drop of the red curry! And there are 2 other food trucks here (mexi and sushi) with plenty room to sit if you're with people that don't want thai

Took 35 minutes to get our foods they ran out of rice and chicken but didn’t tell us. We ordered at 6:15pm. There were 8 other people in line ahead of us. While a very pleasant woman took our order, she was replace with a much different woman who was extremely rude. When we asked about our food 30 minutes later (and after seeing a young family out in their order way after us get their food) she said “don’t order food when we are busy” slammed the window and said “we are closed” not worth the wait for the pad Thai or fried rice. I should mention that in her reply she claims that there were 40 people in front of us and that we were told they ran out of rice (we weren’t told that). She also claims we went back to our resort and wrote this review (we didn’t, we wrote it there). She kept slamming this piece of paper on the window that said they took their time to cook food but was super agitated and rude and said she didn’t take the order so it wasn’t her fault. I was shocked by how rude she was, and to make matters worse she claims Sam was a grown man, Sam is an 18 year old girl who witnessed her display in front of everyone. There were two other trucks there (sushi and Mexican) and both served food quickly and it was delicious with no attitude. .go elsewhere, the food wasn’t worth the hassle!