the smell. I arrived as a 17yr old to Rice. I would leave Rice and go back "home" and come back and nostalgically love the smell. haha houston is home to me.
You get props for Zappos and Jojos. The fact that I can't find a Jojo's fishbowl window is a monstrosity to crappy Houston restaurants that I used to dine in when I was 5! They were fishbowls, and it'd be nice for kids to be able to climb in them. And now I think I'm ok.
I remember the Flea Markets, The Houston Zoo, Astroworld, Astrodome, the carnivals at Fiesta, Chinatown...
The JoJo's I used to go to is a Denny's now. Poor substitute. As I recall, they took out the window about 5 years or so ago.