Tandoori Chicken Mobile

If this place was worth ranking, it would be on the bottom of the Indian food scene.

AWFUL. Sorry, but this place is pretty terrible. Ordered the chicken tikka masala served over basmatic rice… WRONG. Chicken was like 3 pieces and the sauce was like… brownish orange colored. It was so bizarre. And the rice wasn’t even cooked! It was clumped together like it was day-​old rice that hadn’t been microwaved thoroughly.
I’ve never had Indian food this terrible before. Not only that but the portion was significantly smaller than what I would expect to receive for a $ 9 price tag. It’s like they’re taking advantage of being in SF and overcharging us. Isn’t being in a taco truck supposed to cut down on costs?!
Won’t be coming back.

I ordered the vegetable curry expecting a mix of fresh veggies but instead got two huge pieces of eggplant and two chunks of potato. The potato was good, the eggplant was a big chewy — not much variety. Not bad overall but a little on the sweet side for my taste.

The food offering is really uneven at the truck. The proteins are pretty tasty, but they’re often presented in a disappointing fashion. I would give their generous portions of tandoori spiced paneer cubes 4 stars, but everything else brings them down to a respectable 3 star «A-​OK».
Desi Fries w/​Paneer: Very generous portion of paneer, like there are so many cheese cubes that I could barely see the fries. A nice amount of mint/​cilantro and tamarind chutneys to impart even more flavors. Some cooked bell pepper pieces too. The potato fries are a bit soggy though, but it almost doesn’t matter as much with everything else going on. Basically drunk food you can eat for lunch during the workday (…when you probably shouldn’t be drunk).
Desi Crispy Chicken Wrap: Thankfully there are a lot of fusion Indian wraps that serve as points of comparison, but sadly this particular one is pretty low on the totem pole. The actual fried chicken chunks are crispy and have nice tandoori covering. Unfortunately, the rest of the wrap is extremely bland. Lots of plain basmati rice. Some sad iceberg lettuce mix (like the prepackaged salad mixes with bits of carrots and red cabbage you’d get at the supermarket). All wrapped in a generic flour tortilla. I feel that Curry Up Now does a really good job with Indian chicken wraps, bursting with flavor. So this one just seems lackluster in comparison.

Ordered chicken tikka masala over rice. Rice was half cooked and no «masala» in tikka masala :(. Food was cold and seriously overpriced.

Today, for lunch, we decided to walk a few blocks and visit the Truck Stop SF. This was my first time visiting and I’m always a fan of food trucks. After checking out all the food trucks, I decided on this place. At first, I was a little hesitant based on the existing reviews but decided to keep this choice. I’m glad I did…
For lunch I started with Samosa Bites, 2 for $ 3.50. This samosa was filled with potatoes, cheese and corn in a flaky pastry deep fried and served with a mint chutney. This was good! A potato fried turnip was just was I needed. The chutney was sweet, spicy and went well with the samosas. For my meal, I got the Desi Crispy Chicken Wrap for $ 9.00. This was insanely big! Indian style chicken with Basmati rice, Indian style coleslaw, mint chutney and tamarind sauce wrapped in a tortilla. It was like an oversized burrito filled with so much flavor! The chicken was crunchy and the Indian flavors weren’t so spicy. The basmati rice and coleslaw brought extra depth and texture to the dish and everything was so cohesive. I liked it a lot!
I’m definitely coming back to this food truck. One thing I’ve learned since moving here: people are super brutal with their reviews. I can never trust an overall 3 star rating anymore. I’ve gotta check it out for myself. If I don’t, I would miss out on gems like this one! Come check them out!

This is for the Chicken Tikka Masala. I should have read some reviews before I chose to spend money here. I was halfway back to work when I opened it up to see this purplish-​red glop on top of some innocent rice in the process of being stained by the watery colored mess seeping into it. I got back to work and bravely tried some. The chicken was sparse, and was shredded to stretch it out. The flavor was bland. I don’t know what they used instead of tomatoes, but they clearly were faking the lack of tomatoes with the food dye. There was a mild spice to it, but nothing reminiscent of Indian food, maybe a poor lone hot pepper unfortunately made its way into the mix.
I hate being brutal in a review, but I hate paying good money for something and getting a load of garbage instead of something worth the sum spent. $ 17 Indian food doesn’t look so bad anymore.

After eating at this debacle of a food truck, I have always carefully checked Unilocal reviews before eating at SoMa StrEat. This is bad.
Like others, I ordered chicken tikka masala. It came out BRIGHT FLUORESCENT RED.
When I got it, I thought to myself: Okay. Maybe it’s tasty and they really like Red#40. Perhaps a slight risk of cancer is a fair trade-​off for mindblowingly delicious curry (side-​note: this was a hungry mind talking and it is not rational; please don’t trade food for cancer, no matter how tasty it is).
I took a bite.
Then I slowly put my fork down.
Then I stared at the glowing red curry. How could it be? Something that was so dynamically red was so bland?
The RICE was more flavorful than the curry.
Also, the chicken (?) was plastic. I should have dropped one to see if it would bounce.

I was hesitant to try based on some of these reviews but glad I did. The desi fish sandwich was really tasty. The tamarind & mint chutney went well — little sweet, little spicy & the fish was fried perfectly — tender & nice seasoning.

Chicken Tikka Masala. $ 9 for 4 half inch pieces of chicken over white rice. Also, forget that orange color of the spices you knew… this stuff is RED. I also second what most 1 star leavers have said.
:/​bummer.

Had the (vegan) vegetable curry over rice. It smelled really good. Tasted ok. It was just tons of zucchini chunks in curry sauce over rice. That’s it. Nothing else in the curry. I’ve never had an Indian curry dish that only had zucchini in it. At that point, they should just call it zucchini curry and not vegetable curry. Pretty disappointing.

I hate to be a jerk, but this truck needs to go out of business so the owner (s) can rethink the plan.
I’ve gotten food here a number of times over the last 18 months, and every time I try to remember to avoid the place with the logo of a chicken in a tandoor with wheels.
Today I was feeling a bit under the weather, so I wanted something simple with lots of spices to help heat me up. It was 11:30 AM, and I walked past the big line of people waiting for their Bacon Bacon orders. There wasn’t a soul in front of the Tandoori Chicken Mobile truck. A bad sign in the food truck business. But I was fighting off the chills and wanted to get back inside as quickly as possible, so I ordered the vegetable curry over rice.
When I got back to the office and opened the lid my heart sank. The vegetables consisted of three massive hunks of potato and five over-​sized cuts of zucchini. Does ANYBODY enjoy eating zucchini? Especially in a curry? That was it for the vegetables.
The curry itself was basically flavorless, even considering that I have a cold, there was nothing going on in that curry. Then I remembered that this was the place where the Chicken Tikka Masala is also bland. No sauces to add zip or a slight change of flavor. Just a heap of rice with bland curry.

There was a nasty old wrapper stuck onto the naan bread. Disgusting… The food was bland and not worth the money at all

Positively the most flavorless, insipid and disgusting chicken tikka masala over rice I’ve encountered in recent memory. There was a faint aroma of freezer burn, and the rice was completely devoid of life.
I came here looking for a different Indian food truck, but boy was I fooled.

Stopped by 450 Mission truck stop and had the tandori chicken sandwich, and somosa bites. Both good. generous sandwich filled with chicked, a mildly spicy sauce, and lettuce on toasted nan. Somosa bites were good, potato, corn, cheese and a cilantro dipping sauce.

Absolutely the worst food I have eaten in SF. Too much food color — Skip!

Tried their Paneer sandwich and a samosa at the Truck Stop on Mission. The Paneer sandwich was great! Wrapped with a thick naan, in a medium spicy sauce with greens and onions. The paneer, despite being a bright pink color not found in nature, turned out to have been nicely marinated in a tangy sauce. The sandwich was decently filling, and the samosa was good.
Unlike some of the other food trucks, you don’t have to pay $ 11 to get a filling meal. This was way superior to Curry Up Now’s indian burritos. No mango lassi or chai or other indian beverages unfortunately, but I appreciate that they focus on getting the food right.

Very friendly staff, but food was a total disappointment. I had the tandoori chicken and it was pretty tasteless, had very little chicken (maybe it was vegetarian tandoori chicken?) and the rice was not cooked right (either they fried it too much or didn’t steam it enough, as it was simply too hard and unpleasant to eat). Art had the shrimp po’ boy, which he didn’t like at all. He said the bread it was served in totally didn’t work (too thick and hard to bite through) and the filling was pretty tasteless.

Mmmmmmmmm yummy. I saw the Tandoori Chicken Mobile at Soma’s Streat Eats one chilly Friday afternoon and decided to try it out since tandoori means yummy in my native dialect and chicken means chicken in any language. I ordered their combo for $ 10 which includes the following:
1) Tandoori chicken sandwich (can opt for paneer which is tofu)
2) Basmati rice (can opt for french fries)
3) Drink (I added 50 cents for the glass bottle Coca-​Cola with REAL sugar)
Let me get the easy review out of the way: bottled coke is great and the basmati rice is a great filler if your not full from the sandwich. The tandoori sandwich consisted of tandoori chicken, lettuce, some green sauce (it’s the common Indian sauce), and wrapped with a naan bread. Chicken was juicy and tasty with the tandoori spices and the green sauce on the side gave my sandwich and rice the extra goodness.
Green sauce note: It’s possible the green sauce is mint chutney or cilantro chutney.