full on pho

Went to Trainhead, a pho restaurant, for Austin's birthday celebration today.

Melody challenged all the men to get x-large, David wanted everyone's leftovers; both of them didn't exactly live up to their goal XD

Had a mini pepper eating contest afterward, Lyndon was the obvious winner. Apparently he trained himself on wasabi everytime he was bored waiting for his parents to finish talking after dinner.
Qiqi and I took it pretty well, we were tearing up but managed to stay seated.
Kevin didn't really count as he only ate one.
Jason and Ryan on the other hand, were hilariooooooous. I get to laugh at them since I went through the same thing ;P Ryan promptly ran to the washroom after biting off half of an pepper. Jason stayed at the table for a few moments while displaying extremely agonizing emotions, but had to retreat to the washroom as well. However, he came back quickly as Ryan used up all of the sink's water XD

After various tries at toning down the spiciness, I have come up with a effectiveness list of various items that were at the restaurant. In order from the best to least:

1. Sucking on a wedge of lime. Completeeeely neutralized it, except this was the last method I tried, so it is slightly biased.
   
2. Having a breath mint. Seemed a little counter-intuitive, but works pretty well. Thank you Laurie for having a pack on hand.
3. Ice water. Didn't try this myself, but seeing as Ryan spent a good amount of time rinsing his mouth, I'd say it works decently.
4. Milk tea. The milk part helps, the tea part....
5. Tea. Bad, very bad. Makes it worse imo.
   
6. Doing nothing. It's not TERRIBLY bad, just really numbing. My lower eyelid started quivering haha.
   

Walked to Baskin Robin's afterwards for some ice cream cake. The men were having snowball fights during the walk, several people were head-shot XD We ordered a brownie cake which we ate by scooping. It has become the default method in which the group eats cake.

Happy belated birthday Austin :]