Kabocha Food Truck — Restaurant in Olympia

We ordered the Black Sesame Fried Rice and the Spicy Sesame Soba. The rice was ultimately edible, however, it was not fried. The rice was clumpy and unseasoned. It appeared to be cooked white rice mixed with the vegetables, which I can’t understand. Fried rice is not a difficult dish to make, and yet somehow this was lazy and I can’t imagine anyone with a background or experience cooking Asian food would ever make this. The Spicy Sesame Soba was inedible and falsely advertised. Grilled vegetables it was supposed to come with: mushrooms, onions, carrots, green onions. What it came with: an entire bed of raw cabbage, one piece of raw sliced onion, a few slices of raw carrot. The noodles were clumped together in a giant lump of sesame paste. The flavor was strange and bitter, it truly didn’t taste like food. Unfortunate and...

I’ve enjoyed my orders at the food truck. It’s very easy to place my order online and run over to grab it. There are few places I can grab a quick, healthy vegan lunch while driving between job sites. I’ve had most things on the menu and regularly get the tofu katsu, the bbq rice special they had and onigiri. The rice dish portions are sizable and make for good left overs. The spicy fries are full of flavor, but Spicy! Have water if you eat them...

I left a 5 star review when this truck first opened and the main person working was who I thought to be the owner. Now that they are never here and it is mainly random employees, the quality has steeply declined. Unfortunately the flavors are bland, the rice is usually overcooked, and multiple of the fried items are often burnt. (My partner and I have given the truck many chances in the hopes that it would be as good as it was that first...