The Vulcan Cafe
The Vulcan Cafe
Deep fried vegetarian egg rolls stuffed with silver noodles, black mushrooms, carrot and cabbage. Served with tangy sauce.
A mixture of vegetables and shrimp wrapped in delicate rice noodles. Served cold with tangy sauce. Topped with ground peanuts.
Deep fried prawns wrapped with wonton skin. Served with tangy sauce.
Deep fried tofu. Served with peanut sauce.
Grilled chicken on skewers marinated with Thai spices. Served with peanut sauce and cucumber salad.
Deep fried calamari. Served with tangy sauce and ground peanuts.
Spicy corn cakes made with rice flour, red curry paste, sweet corn and sliced lime leaf. Served with fresh cucumber.
Deep fried chicken wings with garlic served with Thai style sauce.
Special Thai style hot and sour soup with chicken, mushrooms, onion, lemongrass, tomatoes and galanga.
Special Thai style hot and sour soup with vegetables, mushrooms, onion, lemongrass, tomatoes and galanga.
Special Thai style hot and sour soup with shrimp, mushrooms, onion, lemongrass, tomatoes and galanga.
Exotic spicy chicken soup and coconut milk, mushrooms, onion, a touch of lime, lemongrass and galanga.
Tofu soup and coconut milk, mushrooms, onion, a touch of lime, lemongrass and galanga.
Special Thai style hot and sour seafood soup with mushrooms, lemon grass and basil leaves.
Wonton soup with BBQ pork and yao choy in clear broth.
Noodles with sliced white meat chicken and bean sprouts in chicken broth.
Noodles with sliced pork, ground pork, sliced fish cakes, fish balls and bean sprouts in clear broth.
Noodles with shrimps, calamari, imitation crab meats, fish balls, sliced fish cakes, white mushrooms and bean sprouts in clear broth.
Your choice of ground chicken, ground pork or ground beef cooked with fresh red and green onions and mint leaves.
Shrimp, calamari, mussels and scallops with onion, lemongrass and mint leaves in spicy lime juice.
Shredded green papaya with tomatoes, green bean, ground peanuts and dry shrimp in spicy lime dressing served with sliced cabbage.
Fried tofu, boiled egg, cucumber with onion, carrot and iceberg lettuce topped with peanut sauce.
Your choice of sliced smoked pork or beef cooked with red and green onions, mint leaves and Thai chili in lime dressing.
Transparent noodles and tofu cooked with chili and lime juice. Served on lettuce.
Transparent noodles, chicken and shrimp cooked with chili and lime juice. Served on lettuce.
Shredded mango, shrimps, dried shrimps, cashew nuts, tomatoes and red onions in smoked chili lime dressing.
Sauteed broccoli with garlic and oyster sauce.
Sauteed broccoli with garlic and oyster sauce.
Sauteed mushrooms and green onions with oyster sauce.
Sauteed veggies, mushrooms and green onions with oyster sauce.
Sauteed fresh mushrooms with garlic sauce.
Sauteed veggies, fresh mushrooms with garlic sauce.
Your choice of meat, sliced on spinach and Napa cabbage. Topped with curry peanut sauce.
Sauteed garlic and basil leaves with hot peppers and green beans.
Stir fried vegetables and onions with chili.
Spicy eggplants with garlic, bell pepper and basil leaves.
Spicy eggplant.
Sauteed green beans and bell peppers with chef's spicy sauce.
Sauteed veggies, green beans and bell peppers with chef's spicy sauce.
Sauteed bell peppers, zucchini and onion with cashew nuts in chef's special sauce.
Sauteed with your choice of meat in garlic sauce with mushrooms served over steamed rice.
Sauteed with your choice of ground meat with bell pepper, green beans, Thai chili and basil. Served over steamed rice.
Your choice of meat sauteed with Thai chili, white onion and bell peppers. Served over steamed rice.
Your choice of sliced chicken, pork or beef sauteed with eggplant, bell pepper, basil and Thai chili. Served with steamed rice.
Sauteed sliced chicken with garlic and ginger sauce, black mushrooms, bamboo shoots and white onions. Served over steamed rice.
Deep fried boneless chicken breast over fried rice with egg, white onion and tomatoes. Served with sweet and sour sauce.
Grilled boneless chicken breast over fried rice with egg, white onion, green onion and tomatoes. Served with sweet and sour sauce.
Boneless Chicken BBQ Thai style. Marinated chicken with herbs. Served with salad and steamed rice.
Stir fried rice noodles with chicken and egg, Chinese broccoli and sweet soy sauce.
Stir fried rice noodles and green beans in chili, garlic, bell peppers and basil leaves.
Famous Thai rice noodles stir fried with Chicken, tofu, egg, bean sprouts and chopped peanuts.
Steamed flat rice noodles, spinach, shrimp, diced chicken and white onions with mild yellow curry and coconut milk.
Stir fried spaghetti with spicy seafood shrimp, calamari, mussel, scallops, green beans, bamboo shoots, tomatoes and basil leaves.
Fried rice with your choice of meat, egg, white onion, green onion and tomatoes.
Fried rice with crab meat, egg, white onion and green onion.
Fried rice with BBQ pork and Chinese sausage, egg, white onion and tomatoes.
Fried rice with pineapples, egg, cashew nuts, onions, shrimp and chicken.
Thai spicy panang curry with coconut milk, slivered kaffir lime leaves, bell peppers and tofu.
Thai spicy panang curry with veggies, coconut milk, slivered kaffir lime leaves, bell peppers and tofu.
Thai hot red curry with coconut milk, bamboo shoots, basil leaves and vegetables.
Thai hot green curry with coconut milk, bamboo shoots, basil leaves and vegetables.
Thai hot yellow curry with coconut milk, bamboo shoots, basil leaves and vegetables.
Thai hot curry with coconut milk and vegetables.
Thai hot curry with coconut milk and vegetables.
Thai hot curry with coconut milk and vegetables.
Deep fried or steamed salmon, zucchini, bell peppers, krachai, sweet basil leaves and carrots topped with Thai green curry.
Tom Yum Kung
Pad Thai Kung
Tom Yum Gai Soup
Broccoli Beef
Mango sticky rice
Garlic Chicken wings
Pad thai
Doesn't look like Pad Thai to me???
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Siam noodles
Pad Khi Mao
Pad See-Ew
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Menu
I ate ONE. Only ONE!!!! This is really awful
fried tofu
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Thai fresh rolls
Claudia S.
Oct 15, 2024
Everything we ordered was yummie! We had some chicken skewers, pad thai and even a vegetarian dish with Tofu. I would definitely recommend you to try it, dont let the location fool you
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Mick J.
Jan 30, 2025
TLDR: I'd rather skip a meal than eat this inedible food. The glowing reviews are fake. Do not recommend.Flavourless everything, curries don't come with rice - have to order separately which isn't stated in the online order menu, def not real Thai food, and the guy hung up on me before I could complete my order. We ordered a veg pumpkin curry, a bbq pork fried rice, and the beef larb salad. All awful, don't recommend, we obv will never pay a penny to Vulcan again.
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Steve D.
Oct 15, 2023
"The Vulcan Cafe" is a Thai restaurant in East Oakland that stays open late. I had a recommendation that I try this place, so on a Thursday evening I ordered: - Garlic Chicken Wings (6)- Tom Yum Gai SoupOkay, the chicken wings look great in the photo, but were overcooked and hard to eat. I had to throw away a few. Grade (2/5).The Tom Yum Gai Soup gets Grade (4/5) with it's delightful blend of flavors in a rich broth. Thai style hot and sour soup with chicken and assorted veggies.Rich and satisfying soup, perfect for a cool evening.
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Steve O.
Aug 13, 2024
Good food reasonable prices, kind owner operators, the place has been an institution in the area for decades. A little scrappy around the edges for appearance, but it's the kind of charm that I appreciate.
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Loriell L.
Aug 11, 2021
First of y'all... the 1 star reviews are TRIPPIN. Certain restaurant's have their strengths and weakness dishes and you just gotta know how to order Just because certain items aren't good doesn't mean ALL the food is bad or terrible.I ordered the salad attached & the hot n sour Thai soup. I've had better but for being open so late to my convenience it still satisfied the craving. The salad however did it for me and will be returning for the salad alone. I didn't try any pan friend noodle dishes or entrees but will give it a try the next go around!
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Mindy L.
Sep 6, 2021
Pretty underwhelming. But like someone said, for being open til midnight it satisfies the craving. Crab fried rice - small amount of crab on top of regular rice and tiny bits of egg. Definitely not fried rice. Pad Thai - very okay. Had a tiny bit of cabbage and peanuts, but no fresh bean sprouts which is needed to balance to noodlesGreen curry - not spicy at all. Good flavor and veggies were cooked well though
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Eric S.
Mar 3, 2024
They have Thai food. I have eaten there many times over several years. The food is good and reasonably priced. You should try it.
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Thaia T.
Aug 3, 2023
INEDIBLE FOOD!!!I ordered Uber eats an hour before they closed.. maybe my fault.Like the previous review says about the wings, DRY, TOUGH - the worst part - WITH CLAWS & SPIKES. NO CHICKEN WING SHOULD BE SPIKEY. Surprisingly, the spikey wings had the most flavor out of everything. My favorite Thai, Go-To STIR FRY NOODLE DISH - Pad Kee Mao, HAD NO NOODLES IN IT! If they went out of noodles, I wish they would have let me order something else instead.. it was all vegetables in a sauce. The FEW noodles I did manage to find were so mushy and texture was disgusting. So they put all vegetables & a few beef pieces in a sauce to TRY TO COVER THE FACT there's NO NOODLES - in a STIR FRY NOODLE DISHLastly. THE FRIED RICE IS NOT FRIED! It's WHITE rice mixed with veggies - NOT AN OUNCE OF FLAVOR, soy sauce NOTHING.I thought I was playing it safe with stir fried noodles & fried rice DISGRACEFUL. How do they stay in business with such awfulllll food like this?NEVER THREW AWAY FOOD AWAY SO FAST IN MY LIFE! - EVERRR. Because I'm cheap & I love food - but this was just that terrible!
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Briggitte L.
Mar 29, 2022
I had shrimpPad Thai and shrimp spring rolls. The spring rolls had too much lettuce and some didn't have any shrimp. But I enjoyed the ones containing shrimp and I liked the sauce that was served with it. I also enjoyed the pad Thai.
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Timothy B.
Feb 5, 2024
I've had many good meals here.Rarely disappointed by the nice family running this cozy little shop.
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