How Vietnamese Cooks Upped the Ante on the Cajun CrawfishBoil
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Eater partners with the SFA on a docu-series.
This next piece focuses on Vietnamese-style crawfish boils, which have become a mainstay in Houston, a city that boasts one of the largest Vietnamese populations in the United States.
The Vietnamese crawfish boils in Houston are similar to traditional Cajun boils except the chefs add Asian aromatics to the boil lemongrass and ginger and serve it on top of a sauce of butter and garlic and spices. Says Kit Dong of Crawfish Cafe, It's the same thing as Louisiana crawfish, boiled and soaked just the way Louisiana people do, except we add a little extra layer of flavor to it. it gives it a Vietnamese twist to it. The film tells the story of a dish but really it tells the story of Vietnamese immigration and the hybridized foodways they honed on the Texas coast.
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Spunkymunky: Just did my first boil last night. Tasted on point. Im Viet and was trying to replicate the Viet crawfish boil joints. Thinking of doing this for New Years Day! Date: 2020-05-20
