The day I ate everything aka my birthday+iThai review

It was my birthday quite recently! We went to the Rocklea Markets on a Sunday, I always forget that the Sunday ones are a weird discovery market aka market full of secondhand, random stuff. I went with VGirl and my aunt, I was a bit worried that my aunt wouldn't enjoy it because there was no fresh produce. However she does love cheap stuff and she bought a ton of cheap $2 clothing. VGirl also got a cheap coin purse and then we had breakfast.

VGirl and my aunt went to the Fresh Omelet Company for breakfast. VGirl got the plain vegetarian omelet for breakfast in a wrap, spinach, red onion, omelet, mushrooms, capsicum and melted cheese. She said that it was quite plain in flavour as there was no detectable seasoning in the wraps. There was sauce that you could help yourself to, but even without the sauce, the wraps leaked a lot of watery veggie fluid.

Not a bad idea though

My aunt picked the mushroom version, spinach, onion, omelet and cheese. She remarked that it was also quite plain in flavour and she only ate half of it. She made me eat the other half as it was my birthday, I thought that was pretty rough.

Jelly of their wrapping prowess

The rough part was because I had just eaten this absolutely massive honeywurst sausage from Hahndorf Small Goods. It was about 20cm long and the sausage was veal and flavoured with honey which made it pleasantly sweet and much more manageable as it wasn't so overpoweringly savoury. I have made it a small goal to eat everything they offer here, at the time of writing I've had the honeywurst, weisswurst, gypsy had and German meatloaf. Slowly working on it every second week or so!

Mmm honeywurst

VGirl and I got iced tea from the Ice Tea Factory afterwards. They offer you tastes of all their iced tea which is really handy, because I can never decide as you know. I honestly tried three or four before I panicked and decided.

I really enjoy this place.

At the time that we went there was lemon+ginger, raspberry+orange, peach+mint, peach+mango, lychee+rose+white tea and apple+mint+green tea. I can't remember what a lot of the base teas were, sometimes they write it on the signs but they weren't on them this particular week. If you follow me on Instagram, you can tell I go here a lot haha.

Delicious~

Such tasty teas

I got the raspberry and orange one on the left, while VGirl got the lychee and rose on the right. Mine was very bright and refreshing, with a small segment of orange floating around in it. VGirl's was very heavily floral and honey like in flavour, she really enjoyed it though and every time I go here, she requests that I get it for her.

Delicious iced tea

After we finished breakfast, we decided to go to to the Eagle Farm Markets. My aunt had never been and was really excited when she saw how extensive and cheap the produce section was. VGirl and I went around the markets and saw these really cute little baby onesies.

Super cute

They came in a little bento boxes, the fabric was made out of bamboo cloth and they included a washer, socks and a little hat in different sizes.

Such cute packaging

We saw this little stall set up and I kept nagging VGirl to get some doughnut holes for us to share. VGirl has had a weakness to doughnuts since she was young. I remember when she about 8-10, we would get a box of doughnuts from Coles every weekend and she would eat nearly the whole thing by herself.

If you see these, definitely buy them

There were eight large, fluffy doughnut holes for $6! They were so fluffy, super light and so airy, it was hard to believe they had just come out of a deep fryer. They were rolled in cinnamon sugar and despite not liking sweets all that much, I can't remember the last time I had a better doughnut.

Yummy doughnuts

We went to DFO and bought a whole bunch of random stuff since they were still running their Mother's Day sales. We went for quite a few hours, then decided to head home and then went out for an early dinner. We wanted to go to Glamorous Wok but they told us to come back at 5.30pm when they started their dinner run, we decided to just go to iThai instead.

We picked the Pad iThai, prawns, chicken, bean sprouts, lemon and rice noodles with special iThai sauce. The noodles were served a little bit harder than we liked and the whole balance of the dish was skewed towards the sour end of the scale. My aunt and Mama Pham resolutely ate this dish as the only thing they could stand, but they were making dark remarks that my pad thai was much better, even if I cooked my noodles mushier.

Bit too sour

VGirl went for the sweet and sour vegetables, she said it was exactly what she wanted. She was craving sweet and sour pork, but the whole vegetarian thing really kills it. She really wanted a bright, fluorescent sauce over some veggies and that's exactly what she got.

VGirl loves sweet and sour 

I ordered the som tum as its one of the famous dishes of Thailand, pounded green papaya, dried shrimp, green beans, cherry tomato, peanuts, chilli and a fish sauce dressing. Oh Jesus fucking Christ, this was the most pain I've ever endured with chillis since the time VGirl dared me to eat an entire packet of wasabi when I was 12, or the time I rubbed my nose after cutting chillis and washed out my nose with milk. I was nearly crying it was so incredibly spicy. My aunt point blank refused to eat it as she has a very sensitive stomach. Mama Pham ate it but very sparingly, she remarked that it was very well made but that it was too spicy to enjoy. I ate almost all of it, CHILLI HERO. We both ultimately agreed that it would've been better a little milder.

It hurts so bad

I got the crispy deep fried pork belly with special spicy sauce which came with some veggies and steamed rice. The pork belly was mildly spicy but nothing compared to the massive heat of the som tum. My aunt and Mama Pham both praised this dish very highly, saying it was the best thing that we had ordered. The exterior of the pork belly was slightly crunchy as if pan fried and then it was cooked in the slightly spicy sauce. The crackling on some of the pieces was a bit chewy though but easily put aside. The dish was a bit overly salty but went well with the som tum.

Tasty

Also here is the birthday cake my mum made for me! She said she got the strawberries at the local market and made me a slightly tart strawberry sponge for the centre of the sponge cake. She said that her boss wrote the message on the cake which is why it looks wonky.

iThai
Atmosphere: 6, busy little restaurant, simple decor and my favourite picture menus.
Service: 6, it was solid. I have no complaints besides being worried when my waitress just took our order with reconfirming it or writing it down. Thankfully everything turned out okay.
Food: 6, large portions, not always what I was expecting but on the plus side, it was quite cheap. I would maybe go here again, if I was hard up on cash and wanted to share food with friends.