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Crawfish and Noodles makes Viet-Cajun crawfish a Houston export
2008
Houston, Texas
Trong Nguyen opened on Bellaire in 2008 and boiled Louisiana crawfish the way Vietnamese cooks in Houston had started doing it, then tossed them in garlic butter loaded with spice instead of leaving them plain. The style spread out of this corridor to the rest of the country. Nguyen was a James Beard semifinalist in 2018 and 2019 and a finalist for best chef in Texas in 2020, and the restaurant turned up on Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown.
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