Unless they came from Houston, yes. Vietnamese crawfish came from Vietnamese Houstonians who decided to put a fusion together with crawfish & vietnamese cuisine, much like what they did with France & the Banh Mi back in the day.
What if they were not from Houston, but still from Texas and are Vietnamese? Does that count? What if they were from Houston, but weren't Vietnamese? Does that count? I'm trying to see how the scoring goes.
It started in Houston about 20 years ago. https://www.southernliving.com/food/seafood/crawfish/viet-cajun-crawfish https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/eat-drink/article_97e7b700-1025-58fa-a35e-5e119a0b04ba.html
And some more: https://houston.eater.com/2017/2/27/14707856/houston-vietnamese-cajun-crawfish https://www.crawfishcafe.com/how-viet-cajun-crawfish-integrated-into-houstons-identity/
Don't doubt the origins. I'm just asking at what point does it become a rip-off when someone else does it. Based on the way you stated, 95% of the stuff being cooked is a rip-off.
I have a problem with Man vs Food going there to spotlight it. It would be just as silly as their going to LA to show off a deep dish pizza.
Nope. Do you think They were not doing it in Louisiana as well? And Crawfish boil originated with Cajuns in Louisiana. As for the Bayou City itself, Cajun crawfish didn’t take off here until 1976. It was then that a restaurant called Ray Hay’s Cajun Poboys—owned by Luke Mandola Sr., Frankie Mandola and Ray Hay—started hosting springtime crawfish boils in its parking lot. The boils soon became popular with Louisiana natives who’d moved to town with the oil boom. The restaurant, which later changed its name to Ragin’ Cajun, became the first Houston joint to put crawfish on the menu. The big red mudbug sculpture above its front door reminds you that crawfish are still the thing to get there.
When they're the one getting national press? Yep. I have a problem with it. I also get irritated when they go to NYC to talk about a BBQ restaurant. It took years for the nation to understand that Ninfa's was the restaurant that made fajitas blow up.
Yeah, but they existed before Ninfa's, so Ninfa's is a rip-off! And BBQ existed before Texas, so Texas BBQ is a rip-off, too.
Ninfa's definitively made Fajitas a nation and world-wide phenomenon. As far as Texas BBQ, you don't go to a place in NYC to talk about it...
