re: David Chang would make a solid troll on this board

The Shrimp and Crawfish episode paints New Orleans as a bunch of traditionalists. According to Cheng, the city is stuck in its ways and won’t accept any sort of mixture or collaboration on the existing cuisine.

He is far off in this assessment as you can find the fusion scene popping up all over, from Gullota’s places (Maypop and MoPho) to Marjie’s grill, to Killer PoBoys. Hell, we now have viet-inspired King Cakes allegedly being sold on a secondary market. The entire episode was way off based from a Nola perspective with cherry picked examples to fit his narrative.