Maui- Pad Thai Restaurant

Lahaina, Maui is a neat little seaport town, lots of history dating back to when the Hawaiian kingdom ruled, and then the whalers making stops here, to navy ships stopping during the war years, stories of sailors and locals going at it in bars and on the streets, meaning fights.


When the plantation Pioneer Mill set up business, thousands of acres of cane field, the company hired many Asians to work the fields and the mill. 


As the decades rolled on, more immigrants made Maui home, slowly people from Thailand made Maui home. And with the invention of the jet airplane, Americans traveled to faraway places such as Thailand, and the Thai style foods were discovered by many a traveler. I know a trained European chef that ditched what he learned to cooking mostly Asian foods, and Thai foods is on the top of his list.


Thai chefs utilize lots of peppers, mild to hot, their foods can be spicy, such as the curries, and their noodle dishes, and awesome simple soups. And Lahaina is home to a very well known little restaurant called Pad Thai Restaurant. Located in the Wharf Cinema Center, if you do love Thai or are daring and never had it before, do stop by. They are open from 9am to 9pm daily, and they have 2 hours of free validated parking at the Wharf Parking Lot.

Appetizer

SPRING ROLL 4 PC....8.99

Petite Delicacies of Carrots, Long Rice and Mushrooms are Wrapped in Crispy Rice Paper and Served with Fresh Lettuce and Mint Leaves (Mild).

SUMMER ROLL....8.99

Fresh Boiled Tiger Shrimp, Mint, Cucumber, Carrots, and Fresh Lettuce Wrapped with Soft Rice Paper.

CALAMARY....10.99

Tender Calamary Rings Dipped in Batter with Thai Spices and Lightly Deep Fried.

SA-TE CHICKEN (4)....8.99

Boned Chicken Wings Stuffed w/ Carrots, Long Rice, Mushrooms, Green Onions and Egg. (Mild)

SHRIMP TEMPURA....12.25

Tiger Shrimp in a Coconut Batter, Deep Fried.

This is just a sample of their extensive menu. What looks good at first glance?

The Yum Woon Sen (Chicken or Beef) Salad. For 12.99 it has Squid or Shrimp, Yum salad with long rice noodles, and whole roasted peanuts. The thin rice noodles is the main ingredient, and others are added on to it. You can ask for just vegetables if you don't eat any meat.

Under seafood, I like the Garlic Shrimp, Calamary or Fish for 14.99 it's a great deal considering it is seafood. Large shrimp, tender calamary or fish sautéed with pounded garlic cloves, broccoli, carrots, and mushrooms mixed with a special sauce and served on a bed of chopped cabbage. (Mild, Medium, or Hot)

Looking at the soups, the Tom Yum Gai (Spicy Chicken Soup) for 12.99 looks more my style, tender chicken meat, fresh lemon grass, Kafir lime leaves, simmered in spiced bouillon with green onion and Thai parsley.

As far as the Curries are concerned, the Thai Curry Duck for 16.99 is mines man! Roasted duck in coconut milk and red, green or yellow curry with bell peppers, eggplant, zucchini, and fresh basil.

Pad Thai Restaurant has sides of white rice, brown rice or sticky rice in small and medium bowls, for 2.30 to 4.25 approximately. And you can't leave unless you get Shrimp Fried Rice.

For the Noodles section, what got my attention was the Crispy Fried Egg Noodles with chicken, topped with broccoli and carrots in a special Thai sauce. for 9.99.

And to cool your throat, try a Thai Ice Coffee, and relax in Lahaina after you eat, maybe go upstairs at the Wharf Cinema Center and take in a flick, the multiplex theater shows the most recently released movies.

Aloha