Cafe O-Mai | 15 Cracknell Road, ANNERLEY QLD 4103
If
you haven't been to Cafe O-Mai for breakfast before, you should go.
Seriously.
Cafe
O-Mai is a quirky family-run Vietnamese cafe located on a corner
street in the suburb of Annerley. Don't let its humble exterior fool
you, as the food dished out by this cafe is nothing short of
impressive.
On
our recent visit last Sunday, Cafe O-Mai was packed with people
inside and out but we were lucky to score the last table available
which also happened to have a space next to it just big enough to fit
our pram. Awesome!
The
breakfast menu is a traditional Vietnamese affair with a touch of
western influence. From sweet
corn and zucchini fritters ($13)
to pork meatballs
in rich tomato sauce with quail eggs served with warm baguette ($13),
there are plenty of choices and you can even get a bowl of steamy pho
if
you desire. With so many delicious sounding choices on offer,
deciding on what to have was difficult but we wasted minimal time in
ordering given how busy they were.
We
started off with a cold
pressed fresh juice ($6)
and a O-Mai iced
latte ($5.50).
Both were the perfect wake-up drinks. I had my eye on their
Vietnamese iced
coffee ($5)
which is served in a drip filters with the coffee slowly dripped onto
condensed milk before you get to stir and pour it over ice but it
will have to be my choice of drink on our next visit.
Breakfast
arrived quickly. It had been a long time since I'd had F rench toast,
so breakfast for me was the brioche
French toast with vanilla poached rhubarb and fresh strawberries
topped with housemade labna, toasted pistachio and honey ($13).
The vibrant presentation of the dish was very inviting. It tasted
good but the toast was slightly soggy for my liking.
What
I really want to tell you about is the other travel bunnie's dish.
It's called Aunty
Five's claypot baked eggs with Vietnamese lemongrass and chilli pork
sausage, spring onion and tamarind sauce with sourdough ($15).
Not only was the serving generous (oh yeah, three eggs in one pot),
it was also mind-blowingly delicious. There were so many layers of
flavours in that dish and they just lingered in our mouths making us
wanting more and more. AND MORE. Half way through the meal I begged
the other travel bunnie to switch with me and he kindly said yes. I
wolfed down the what was left in the dish and in the end I was
literally wiping the claypot with the last bit of that sourdough
trying not to waste the remaining sauce.
Breakfast
at Cafe O-Mai was oh my god delicious.
So
yes, bottom line: go there, try Aunty Five's claypot and you won't be
disappointed.
Total
Bunnie Dollars Spent: $40.50
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