Tag: The Cajun World Eats
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#6 Char kway Teow: Malaysian pastalaya
March 10th, 2025 Everybody knows jambalaya. It’s famous throughout Louisiana and can now be found in restaurants around the country. I’ve even seen the name jambalaya pop up around the world (usually in a context that has nothing to the rice dish, but still interesting seeing that word in far-away places). Everybody loves jambalaya. It’s…
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#5: Greek style okra
February 3, 2025 Remember when Tante would bring that side dish of okra smothered with tomatoes and andouille to family gatherings in the summer? When she told you you had to try a little bite, and you said you didn’t like okra because it was too slimly? And then you looked over at ole Nonc…
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#4.2: Yam Rice
January 13th, 2025 You remember when your mawmaw asked what you wanted to go with your rice and gravy? And you said, “Potatoes”. And she said, “Two starches!? I don’t think so.” Well now you get that chance. This dish gives you the gravy/sauce-soaking capacity of two starches cooked into one. We know rice and…
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#4.1: Singapore Duck rice and gravy
14 October 2024 “There ain’t no meat on the legs.” I’m not saying nonc was wrong back in the day when we would only take the breast meat and the gizzards from the ducks that we’d just shot that morning. I understand that time was and always is of the essence, and that it takes…
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#3: Soutzoukakia: Greek Cumin Meatballs
23 September 2024 In south Louisiana, over the generations we’ve grown accustomed to and well versed in pronouncing hard-to-spell and even harder-to-say words and last names. We’ve seen all them French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Native American words for so long that they’re all part of the everyday patois down there. As for Greek? We’ll,…
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#2: Kacang Pool: Malaysian BBQ Beans
6 September, 2024 Now this one is a deep dive from Southern Malaysia. Kacang pool, which translates to “pool of beans”, is a Malaysian version of a middle eastern dish called ful medammas, which uses foul medammas (another name for fava beans) as the base ingredient. Now I know what you’re thinking. Foul medammas? Mmm,…
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#1: Meat floss po-boy
29 August, 2024 If you ever find yourself in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, hungry, jet-lagged, anxious from the endless stream of motorcycles passing by, head on over to Bánh Mì Bà Huynh in District 1 (https://banhmibahuynh.vn/). Here, your bravery from having to cross the endless steam of motorcycles in the streets in this city…
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