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3.75 for an elephant ear. Service was friendly. The elephant ear was huge, sugary, buttery and absolutely hit the spot. In a land of food carts galore, I’m glad this place is here to satisfy my sweet tooth.
They also sell bubble teas, fruit smoothies and these donuts that everyone around me was ordering. Must try next time I’m in the block.

Quick snack while wandering the food pods… tasty, hot, and easy to share (if you order more than one order, portion sizes are small for the money).

Decent Vietnamese sandwiches and bubble tea. Other noodle etc items we didn’t try.

Eight.
Minis.
Donuts.
Hot.
Fresh.
Sweet.
Full of sugar.
Deep Fried.
Dunk them in to the Chocolate sauce.
It was the best $ 2.50 I’ve ever spent in my life.

Am I the only person out there who likes this place?
Ok, sure– the arguments are that the donuts are greasy and small. I feel like those are legitimate statements. The fact that those statements are lodged as complaints really bothers me though– they’re MINI DONUTS, people. Donuts are, by nature of the beast, greasy. You put something in a deep fryer, you take it out, you put it in a paper bag… the bag is going to have grease spots. If this bothers you, go eat celery. If celery makes a bag greasy, THEN you’ve got a problem. With donuts, I see no reason to complain.
And then there’s the bitching about the size– what’s wrong with small donuts? It’s not like they’re being advertised any differently than exactly what they are– they’re mini donuts! They come out, they’re small. Are people really surprised by this? I happened to like that I could pay, what– 2.50 for a bag of the little guys? Then I go home, get my sugar fix, and don’t feel like I’m contributing too actively to the large-​assed obesity epidemic due to a dessert that was 12 times bigger than it should have been (and therefore what most people are hoping for when they spend a whopping 250 pennies on something… I mean really. That’s practically a FORTUNE. Why AREN’T we getting huge portions when we’re forking out cash in these MASSIVE quantities?).
I think one of the biggest complaints about the donuts was the chocolate sauce that comes with them. I didn’t try this– I felt like that was a bit too much to be combining with delicious greasy sugary fat. And guess what? I loved my donuts. Maybe people who hated the dipping sauce should try the place out again and let the donuts stand on their own– frills aren’t always necessary, just because they’re available. It was a great little after-​dinner treat that I would happily get again.

Really small portions for the money. It was my sugar and fried food mix since the local doughnut shop was being remodeled.
When my first thought was I would set up a cart and make a killing making desserts and I’m not a professional chef is not a good sign about the product coming out the door.
All in all meh.

I ordered hot chocolate and a dozen mini donuts from the woman working at this cart, who was very nice. The donuts were ready first, and they were pretty good, although greasy — they didn’t taste bad, but the bag they came in was quickly rendered transparent with oil. I was offered chocolate sauce with them and not told that it cost extra until my total was tallied up, which is a bit sneaky, and the chocolate sauce, while nice with the donuts, was clearly just Hershey’s syrup squirted into a tiny plastic to-​go container. This wasn’t the big rip-​off, though. The hot chocolate, which cost $ 2.50, was very obviously some kind of cheap powder mix and water, and was served so scalding hot that the roof of my mouth is peeling right now. Awful! I don’t think I’ve ever paid so much for such crappy hot chocolate — it’s not like I’ve never been given powdered cocoa mix at a cart before (hello, Whiffies), but never at one that charged more than $ 1 or so for it, and it especially bodes ill here when the menu revolves around drinks, rather than having a few drinks added on as an afterthought for food. (Also, Whiffies gives you marshmallows.) For $ 2.50, I expect something much higher quality than this. It’s unfortunate, because I really like the items offered at this cart — the other reviewer complains that bubble tea and donuts are boring, but to me, they’re a welcome addition to this cart pod, with its 8 767 565 varieties of Thai food and very little in the way of beverages and desserts. I did give two stars instead of one because the donuts were hot and fresh, unlike the ones at Voodoo «Massively Overrated» Doughnuts. But if the rest of the menu is as cheaply made as the cocoa, I’m hesitant to try anything else.

New food cart on the block that only adds fuel to the flames that are burning down the food cart movement… Not everyone can just put up a food cart and think they’re going to be a big hit… especially if your idea isn’t something new, something quality, and something with lasting value, of which this cart is neither of the three.
Bubble tea… been done.
Donuts…you’re competing with Voodoo which is not too far away.
Soy milk… you’re serving warmed up Silk/​Boxed soy milk.
I didn’t try their most novel item, which is the banana coffee, but based upon their setup… can you really expect much to come from this? I wouldn’t.
You get 12 donuts for 2.50, which comes out to about 21 cents per piping hot fresh donut… which are the size of donut holes and which are misshapen and not thoroughly left to drain the oil from which they came. I got a greasy bag and some donuts that had a peppering of cinnamon and sugar. They tasted good and it’s nice to have fresh donuts but there needs to be some refining here.
I was most upset by the soy milk though… as an Asian establishment, you’d better serve some authentic soy milk. Press the soybeans and process on site or at least go down to 82^nd and serve up some authentic Vietnamese soy milk. With the growing competition, Portland demands quality and we should hold those standards high.