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Very disappointed. Requested no tomatoes with the salmon, but to please add extra vegetables if can. The order taker said she would ask. Instead, got less vegetables than normal. Where's the broccoli, the carrots? It's many times hit or miss here when it comes to serving size. There was another time when we ordered extra vegetables and got less than a regular sized serving. I also feel that charging $4.00 for extra vegetables is extreme. I first gave 2 stars but changed to 3 because the food is really good.
My husband was craving pad Thai. We found this food truck while we were in the area. Staff was super friendly and welcoming. The Pad Thai was okay not the best. Appreciated they had the word vegan on the menu. The tofu cashew dish was tasty. Price point was medium. Recommend if you're in the area and want some Thai.
Gluten free Chicken and Shrimp Pad Thai, knocked out of the park. Just food that is spot on!
Super tasty Thai food truck. Fast service and spot on full of flavor. Really yummy garlic shrimp, also had the ribs as well as the chicken fried rice. All packed with flavor
Best panang curry of my LIFEEEEEEE. If you want Thai this is 100% the place to go. Also adored: Cashew chicken, pad thai, lemongrass chicken. In reality, everything is fabulous :)
This place was awesome!! It was, by far, the best pad Thai I had on the island! My husband had the Penang curry and it was SO good as well. Their prices were also the most affordable we had on our trip to Maui! If that wasn't enough, the atmosphere of their location, with an outside garden experience only added to the charm of this place. The staff were friendly and had samples they were offering guests. Did I say the food was amazing?!! We had eaten at Star Noodle in Lahaina just the night before, paid more than double what we paid here and we left underwhelmed and disappointed. I am so glad we took the suggestion from one of the you tubers to try Thai Mee Up... it was one of our favorite eats during our entire week in Maui!!
Good food truck food for a good price. The Green Curry was very mild, but tasty. Make sure to bring some time during peak lunch or dinner hours. It can be tough to secure one of the few shady spots to eat. Friendly and kind staff.
One of the staples of enjoying fresh local fish at reasonable prices. Thai Mee up always offer great Thai cuisine with such authentic savory flavors to delight your palette and scent. They now offer a frequent buyer plan to earn points towards future purchases. Also notice a few of their noodles have meat optional for another $2. However, they also need to make a decent living while prices everywhere goes up. We had the fresh garlic mahi with rice and the green papaya sweet spicy salad. It was scrumptious and the aroma was ultra pleasant!
Excellent customer service by their sweet attendant. We ordered the Penang Curry with tofu and came with a side of Jazmin rice. The curry was delicious with lots of ginger and a red peppers. The food truck was conveniently located inside a food truck park, plenty of parking nearby. There are a lot of chickens walking around in the area so watch out!
To spend an evening in Makawao these days, you have to head out of Kihei long before rush hour or you'll be stuck in Piilani highway traffic for ever, due to extra cars detouring from the washed out South Kihei Road. So, the plan was to leave the roost in mid-afternoon and check out the food truck park next to Longs in upcountry. If you haven't been there, it's not the easiest place to locate, but the Waze app will get you to Longs Drug and you can't miss it. The food truck park was larger than we expected. Lots of good choices, but Thai Mee Up was an easy choice. The girl taking our order was very pleasant and helpful, answering our questions about menu items. I got the Lemongrass Fried Chicken and it was ready in a few minutes because there wasn't much of a crowd. There are a few picnic tables inside the ring of food trucks and again, we were fortunate that there wasn't a crowd and we could sit. The entre came with a small cup of Green Papaya Salad that was very tasty with a little crunch and a sweet & sour dressing. The Lemongrass Chicken was good, with small pieces of chicken battered and fried, on a bed of rice. It came with a tiny cup of a great, sweet & tangy sauce that really wasn't enough for dipping all of the chicken pieces, let alone flavoring the rice. Didn't really get enough lemongrass flavor, either. Nice to have a square of banana leaf under the rice that prevented the rice from sticking to the compostable food box. I would like to order this dish again, but only if they give me more of the sauce.
Protip: They are open the latest out of all the other food trucks in the area. Highlights: For the flavor, price, and wait time, I would honestly recommend this food truck over the My Thai restaurant. I enjoyed the pad thai and cashew vegetable dish the most. Lowlights: There was only three shrimp in our shrimp pad thai which is definitely not worth the money. The lemongrass chicken had so much extra breading and very little chicken.
The parang curry was so so good. Really good mix of spices and just enough chile to wake up your taste buds but not to "hot".
Kula, HI. This is a food truck parked in a cluster with several others. The setting has a carnival kind of vibe, both exciting and ominous. Well no bad guys ever showed up, and the hucksterism was pretty low key. The excitement was not to be had either but it was obvious that these trucks are feeding a lot of people. If they were only able to lower their prices even a little they could be feeding even more but I guess their overhead is probably pretty high even for a parked truck. Anyway I was expecting a bit lower price scale, but it is what it is. So .. For fifteen bucks plus tax and tips I got the seared salmon. The fish was nicely cooked, I enjoyed it. The vegetables were pretty meh but did help bring more of the sauce to the palate. Yes, the sauce was good, right on the verge of too much soy, but they did a good job keeping it balanced. The salmon portion size was small, but not insultingly tiny. Could have been a bit larger for the $15, the value is not there only if you compare to what you make at home, otherwise it's probably disappointedly normal. When you get your six inch diameter bowl you will see what I mean. The heap of rice made for good entertainment feeding the chickens. You're discouraged from feeding them so I just sat the bowl down behind the coffee guys trailer and watched them pig out. It is not exactly "Fast" food here, they are actually cooking the meal while you wait. I had my order in 12 minutes though, exactly how long she said it would take. read more
2 months ago
1 month ago
5 months ago
Very disappointed. Requested no tomatoes with the salmon, but to please add extra vegetables if can. The order taker said she would ask. Instead, got less vegetables than normal. Where's the broccoli, the carrots? It's many times hit or miss here when it comes to serving size. There was another time when we ordered extra vegetables and got less than a regular sized serving. I also feel that charging $4.00 for extra vegetables is extreme. I first gave 2 stars but changed to 3 because the food is really good. read more
1 year ago
My husband was craving pad Thai. We found this food truck while we were in the area. Staff was super friendly and welcoming. The Pad Thai was okay not the best. Appreciated they had the word vegan on the menu. The tofu cashew dish was tasty. Price point was medium. Recommend if you're in the area and want some Thai. read more
3 months ago
2 years ago
Gluten free Chicken and Shrimp Pad Thai, knocked out of the park. Just food that is spot on! read more
2 years ago
Best panang curry of my LIFEEEEEEE. If you want Thai this is 100% the place to go. Also adored: Cashew chicken, pad thai, lemongrass chicken. In reality, everything is fabulous :) read more
1 year ago
This place was awesome!! It was, by far, the best pad Thai I had on the island! My husband had the Penang curry and it was SO good as well. Their prices were also the most affordable we had on our trip to Maui! If that wasn't enough, the atmosphere of their location, with an outside garden experience only added to the charm of this place. The staff were friendly and had samples they were offering guests. Did I say the food was amazing?!! We had eaten at Star Noodle in Lahaina just the night before, paid more than double what we paid here and we left underwhelmed and disappointed. I am so glad we took the suggestion from one of the you tubers to try Thai Mee Up... it was one of our favorite eats during our entire week in Maui!! read more
Good food truck food for a good price. The Green Curry was very mild, but tasty. Make sure to bring some time during peak lunch or dinner hours. It can be tough to secure one of the few shady spots to eat. Friendly and kind staff. read more
1 year ago
2 years ago
One of the staples of enjoying fresh local fish at reasonable prices. Thai Mee up always offer great Thai cuisine with such authentic savory flavors to delight your palette and scent. They now offer a frequent buyer plan to earn points towards future purchases. Also notice a few of their noodles have meat optional for another $2. However, they also need to make a decent living while prices everywhere goes up. We had the fresh garlic mahi with rice and the green papaya sweet spicy salad. It was scrumptious and the aroma was ultra pleasant! read more
Excellent customer service by their sweet attendant. We ordered the Penang Curry with tofu and came with a side of Jazmin rice. The curry was delicious with lots of ginger and a red peppers. The food truck was conveniently located inside a food truck park, plenty of parking nearby. There are a lot of chickens walking around in the area so watch out! read more
2 years ago
To spend an evening in Makawao these days, you have to head out of Kihei long before rush hour or you'll be stuck in Piilani highway traffic for ever, due to extra cars detouring from the washed out South Kihei Road. So, the plan was to leave the roost in mid-afternoon and check out the food truck park next to Longs in upcountry. If you haven't been there, it's not the easiest place to locate, but the Waze app will get you to Longs Drug and you can't miss it. The food truck park was larger than we expected. Lots of good choices, but Thai Mee Up was an easy choice. The girl taking our order was very pleasant and helpful, answering our questions about menu items. I got the Lemongrass Fried Chicken and it was ready in a few minutes because there wasn't much of a crowd. There are a few picnic tables inside the ring of food trucks and again, we were fortunate that there wasn't a crowd and we could sit. The entre came with a small cup of Green Papaya Salad that was very tasty with a little crunch and a sweet & sour dressing. The Lemongrass Chicken was good, with small pieces of chicken battered and fried, on a bed of rice. It came with a tiny cup of a great, sweet & tangy sauce that really wasn't enough for dipping all of the chicken pieces, let alone flavoring the rice. Didn't really get enough lemongrass flavor, either. Nice to have a square of banana leaf under the rice that prevented the rice from sticking to the compostable food box. I would like to order this dish again, but only if they give me more of the sauce. read more
Protip: They are open the latest out of all the other food trucks in the area. Highlights: For the flavor, price, and wait time, I would honestly recommend this food truck over the My Thai restaurant. I enjoyed the pad thai and cashew vegetable dish the most. Lowlights: There was only three shrimp in our shrimp pad thai which is definitely not worth the money. The lemongrass chicken had so much extra breading and very little chicken. read more
2 years ago
The parang curry was so so good. Really good mix of spices and just enough chile to wake up your taste buds but not to "hot". read more
1 year ago
Lemongrass Chicken. Good but portion size is ridiculous, enough for a kid. Only couple good meaty pieces and the rest are batter scraps. read more
2 years ago
The older lady taking orders has lost our order three times... the last time she lost our order we waited 45-50 minutes of waiting... everyone who ordered after us got their orders and no one was left. When she called us the food was cold... and proportions were terrible. Globs of egg in the PadThai and hardly any noodles. Not an I'm sorry to keep you waiting... nothing.... We tipped them $10.00 to boot. read more
1 year ago
We eat here a lot and have noticed declining quality. Last night was not cool, though. I ordered Pad thai with chicken, which I've had many times from here. It was about 98% noodles, about 5 small bits of chicken, literally 1 shred of carrot, about 5 bean sprouts, some cilantro bits, a little egg, and that's about it. I was quite disappointed as other times there is a lot more to pad thai than just noodles. It used to be quite good, so I'm not sure what is happening there, but at this time it feels like it's not worth the money for what they are serving. read more
What a midtown gem! Wonderful staff and terrific curries at a really reasonable price. The panang with tofu was on the richer/creamier side suggesting the (proper) use full-fat coconut milk. Decent amounts of protein along with a balanced amount of veggies (see pic). A scoop of white rice is included in the $11 entree. Be forewarned it arrives scalding hot and takes about ten minutes to cool. Next time I'll take it home and more veggies (spinach, broccoli, and/or zucchini) as the broth could absorb double the provided amount. Also on a 1-5 scale the spiciness is about a 2... a little heat but no one's nose will be running ;) There is ample free parking next to the 6-7 food truck venue. And there are 7-8 picnic-style tables in the center. The only bummer was that we were 4th to order and that meant a 20 minute wait (the penalty for excellence). We hit the drugstore kitty corner to the food trucks to kill some time but you could also dash over to Maui Brewery about three doors further down. read more
2 years ago
Wonderful food and great prices for the portion size. Loved it. A lot of choices in the area for picky eaters and plenty of parking. read more
There's a good mix of tourists and locals that find their way to this food truck. Consequently, the cashier doesn't treat them differently. I prefer the original truck by Costco. Th eyre a little friendlier. I ordered the Pad Thai and waited about ten minutes for my order. The food tastes about the same and prices are reasonable for Maui food trucks these days. The Pad Thai can come in different versions. I had orders of vegetarian, tofu, and chicken. Parking is easy to find on the street or parking lot. read more
4 years ago
To start this review off, I have multiple Thai restaurants back on the mainland. Yes, they are catered to its local taste, and yes its more americanized. Yet, I know how good Thai Food should taste like and yes, this place is spot on. I was pleasantly surprised to see a Thai food truck in the middle of a small town on my way up to Haleakala. I am glad I stopped in because the food was delicious. Prices were fair for Hawaii, probably on the low end to be honest and the entrees I ordered were flavorful and fresh. The Pad Thai. You can taste the tamarind! Most Thai places omit this essential ingredient. The sugar caramelizes and pulls this dish together beautifully. Fresh and delicious. The Drunken Noodles. This was the star for me. They used fresh rice noodles for this, which is really rare for many other Thai places to use. You can taste the wok char with this dish and they did it in a small truck/trailer. The sauce complements the veggies, I believe we ordered another one, haha. The Fried Pork Ribs. I can see myself eating this after a long day at work. The crispy and salty pork with the perfectly cooked rice? Just need some super hot pepper dip and its game! Stop by and grab a bite from this place folks. Not catered to tourists and overhyped. You'll be glad ya did, oh yeah, grab an Thai Iced Tea too! read more
2 years ago
3 years ago
4 years ago
The best SALMON on the island!!! Owner worked at Mama's Fish house for 20 years- enough said!! ... the veggies and rice, especially the veggies were delish !!! The perfect balance of sauce to spice and very flavorful.... Please, oh, please open on the WEST SIDE !!!! read more
2 years ago
4 years ago
Cutest pavilion. Lots of seating. Great food. Great service. I expressed my concerns about my wheat allergy and they were able to find me something delicious to eat. They gave me lots of samples and suggested I order the ahi which was mind blowing. This is quality restaurant quality food, if not better. Highly recommended. read more
2 years ago
5 years ago
Consistently good food :) I wish some of the specials could make it on the regular menu - like the drunken noodles and the salmon. read more
3 years ago
Good flavor, not a very good portion. Noodles were large sheets that needed to be cut into noodles. Not sure why they'd be okay with serving their portions like this. read more
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Tom S.
Aloha Janelle,…
4 years ago
One of the best meals I've had on the island. We had the crispy garlic shrimp which were plump, crispy and tender and garlic ahi which was packed with flavor. Both were really fresh and really good quality. Best of all, the total price for both was less than one entree at most of the restaurants here. We took our food over to the new brewery to enjoy a beer with our food. Really amazing meal and lovely way to spend read more
3 years ago
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Tom S.
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