Home Thai, Haymarket
I stumbled upon this place by complete accident. Walking over to Marigold, I noticed this completely open kitchen with food displayed in the window to make mouths water and pedestrians stop in their tracks. And I certainly wasn’t the only one. In front of the glass display of food and chefs was a long queue crouching beneath a solitary outdoor heater. Mental note – MUST TRY! 
Well, try I did. And it was even better than I expected. From the window I actually had no idea what type of food it was – it was definitely Asian – in fact, it turned out to be Thai. Home Thai – as in home cooked style food. But I don’t know whose home has such amazing food every night – maybe a palace? It was so hard to pick what to eat, but guided by the photos in the extensive menu, and sneaking glances at what arrived at other tables, we settled firstly on the Pad Thai. Did I mention this place is cheap??? $10.50!! Authentically with sugar, peanuts and chilli powder on the side, fresh and cooked beansprouts. And not oily but also not gluggy! Did I mention the staff all use ipads to take your order? A bit too cute – because it failed on our occasion and the waitress didn’t want to hand write our orders cos it wouldn’t go through. Luckily it went back online after around 10 minutes. Oh , and also the waitresses wear LV side satchels. Were they also from Thailand? 
Highly recommended: the banana flower salad, topped with 6 gigantic prawns. It was text book perfect. Crunch, salt, sour, spicy all in one bite through fresh chillis, fish sauce, coriander, peanuts – YUM. And the prawns were so generous. Served on an artfully carved leaf too.
We finished off with two desserts – $6.50 for this mango (Fresh!) with sticky rice and coconut cream. Umm… not sure if the kitchen mixed up the sticky rice, because it was salty 
They also have sticky rice as a rice choice too. So not really a fan of this dish. Perfect texture of rice though.
And definitely couldn’t go past the dessert sampler. A steal at $5.50! Banana fritters and various sticky rice and coconut puddings.
Another word of warning – don’t wear nice clothes, cos you will STINK afterwards! But it is SOoooo worth it. I can’t wait to go again. Awesome food, and well priced too. The Haymarket dining scene is looking up and lifting up in standards!