Just Open: Oneyada Cafe, Abbotsford

The Jinda Thai family is growing – quite literally – one of the founding cousins recently married so the Tanpapat family collectively opened casual Thai breakfast cafe Oneyada to accommodate a multiplying brood.

This next generation cafe (by three years exactly) resides so close to sibling street-food restaurant Jinda Thai that the venues back onto each other and sometimes share a kitchen.

It's simple by design; a few glass-topped tables, a small communal table, rattan chairs, and a menu of early morning soups, stir-fries and sweet snacks; the kind of stuff you'd find in a Bangkok wet market before 10am.

The cafe is under the direction of self­-confessed brunch addict and front-of-house manager Prem Tanpapat who works alongside her brother, sister, aunt, uncle and many cousins.

"This is exactly the same flavour from when I was a kid," Tanpapat says of the cocktail sausages stir­-fried in tomato sauce – a family tradition.

There's also house­-made kaya (pandan and pumpkin) served with tiny sweet buns with sesame hats, sticky rice cakes and an assortment of soups, including the unusual guay jub yuan: a combination of glutinous rice noodles, pork mince, sliced pork loaf, shallots and coriander accompanied by a pot of fiery ground chilli oil (yes, it's hot! you have been warned) that's all the better with the addition of a soft poached egg.

Open Mon-­Fri 7am-­3pm; Sat-­Sun 8am-­3pm.

239 Victoria Street, Abbotsford, 03 9041 1525, facebook.com/oneyadathaicafe