Am I going to be "that person" again? The person who has not had a good experience when everyone else has? I had take out here in July of 2020 while staying at Volcano House. I wasn't in the mood to have room service bring...me up expensive hotel food (dining room closed due to COVID) and seeing all these amazing reviews here and on Trip Advisor, I decided to drive out of Volcanos National Park after placing my order to drive around and get lost.
The address of this truck changed since they last had it advertised on their website. I drove to parking lot that had another Thai food wagon there. I also used Waze and ended up in someone's driveway with a whole family staring at me. Super embarrassing. I finally ended up calling them and they told me where they were. I drove around aimlessly until I ended up at a dead-end and found them, by mistake, it was my luck...or was it?
I knew something was wrong as I drove away because nothing smelled like food in the car, which was odd. Normally when you buy take-out food and put it in your car, it smells pretty good. McDonald's Fries, Mililani Restaurant, heck, even Subway sandwiches have a smell...my pad thai had no smell. At all.
I get back to the hotel and eagerly open up my vegetarian Pad Thai with a side order of Summer Rolls, everything looks nice...but the food was AWFUL.
The Pad Thai had only a sweet, sweet sauce on it. No salt, no garlic, no savory...just SWEET. Chunks of crispy celery were also placed in it...since when does Pad Thai have waffle cut chunks of celery in them? The carrots were also large and crunchy, not julienned thin like I normally make it at home, or eat it at other Thai restaurants.
Sprinkling salt on it did nothing for it. It was now salty and cloyingly sweet. The Summer Rolls were good, but the orange sauce that came with it was the same EXACT sauce they threw on the Pad Thai. Sweet and more sweet, like eating candied noodle sauce with Summer Roll dipped in candy sauce.
It was so bad I threw it away and couldn't stomach anymore. My son ordered the ham burger from room service and he liked it. I should have paid the money and ate in.
Bottom Line - NOT SURE what happened, but I will never, ever order the Pad Thai again!!More