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re: For the people up north…
Posted on 7/26/21 at 4:25 pm to AbitaFan08
Posted on 7/26/21 at 4:25 pm to AbitaFan08
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Raw oysters are better in the Northeast than in Louisiana.
So true
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Posted on 7/26/21 at 4:32 pm to X123F45
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I had a lady in California tell me Louisiana had great chowder... And it couldn't figure out where she might have encountered it.
Cedar Key, Florida about 45 minutes from Gainesville in the Gulf has good clams, and Tony's restaurant there would go up north and win chowder contests. Are there clams anywhere in Louisiana waters?
Posted on 7/26/21 at 4:42 pm to AbitaFan08
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Raw oysters are better in the Northeast than in Louisiana.
Pacific Northwest ones are better than both.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 4:49 pm to madamsquirrel
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Look at the lost cajun in Colorado. He seems to do well. He is near Frisco outside of Breckenridge.
Another good example is Lola's in Las Vegas. I think pretty successful with locals, but probably not Louisiana standards.
Unless you're in a touristy area, you have to take local palettes into account. You're just not going to get people in the midwest going to a place with much seasoning at all. For example, I've been to some of the best restaurants in Springfield, MO and thought none of them put seasoning on food. Same with Fargo, ND.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 4:51 pm to ragincajun03
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Never been to the original in Colorado, but I've eaten at the chain's Odessa and Rosenberg locations (Rosenberg MIGHT have lasted a year), and both were mockeries of Cajun food.
I agree. There's one here in Cypress and it's just ok. Lots of folks like it, but there's lots of transplants in Houston from all over the place.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 4:55 pm to The Spleen
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Pacific Northwest ones are better than both.
They're also immensely different. Those that you eat between the PNW and northeast is a matter of preference.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 4:56 pm to The Spleen
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Pacific Northwest ones are better than both.
While taste is subjective, and acknowledging that the PNW produces fine oysters, this statement is just patently false. The best oysters in the US are in the North East, from the Chesapeake Bay to Cape Cod. With the quality improving the furthest north of that stretch, near Cape Cod. It’s a fact.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 5:20 pm to The Spleen
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Pacific Northwest ones are better than both.
100% agree with this
Posted on 7/26/21 at 6:18 pm to Coater
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Hilliard by chance?
Dublin. But I used to have a favorite Chinese/Asian restaurant in Hilliard at Mill Run called Asian Express that I dined at roughly once a week for 17 years. It was a little mom & pop shop run by a Korean dude with his Chinese wife. They were there every hour it was open. They’d close down for two weeks every summer when they went home to visit family. They had the best Kung Pao Chicken I’ve had outside of San Francisco. They made great Thai food. I saw Asian customers order things that weren’t on the menu and they’d make that too.
I watched their daughters grow up there from little girls whose crayon drawings they posted on the walls to them working the cash registers and eventually they headed off to college. That’s when Park and his wife retired, they sold the store and the new owners turned it to crap. That happened on 9/1/11. I discovered it on 9/4/11 and haven’t been back since. I told my dad about it. He’d never been there.
When Nebraska joined the Big Ten in 2011 we drove out to Lincoln to see the game. Sitting in the visitors section, we happened to be next to a guy from Hilliard. I asked him if he knew Asian Express. He said he did but they changed owners and now they suck. I looked at my dad and said, “See? I told you!”
This post was edited on 7/26/21 at 6:21 pm
Posted on 7/26/21 at 7:05 pm to AbitaFan08
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Pacific Northwest ones are better than both.
Problem out here is that they don't bring you saltine crackers and horse radish/ketchup.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 7:06 pm to AbitaFan08
quote:I prefer Maryland crabcakes to Louisiana ones while we are throwing out unpopular opinions.
However, I’ll throw out something sure to receive downvotes. Raw oysters are better in the Northeast than in Louisiana.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 7:08 pm to vuvuzela
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Problem out here is that they don't bring you saltine crackers and horse radish/ketchup.
They don’t need them.
Champagne vinaigrette and shallots.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 8:40 pm to LouisianaLady
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The issue with a lot of LA food outside of the state is that they do all kinds of strange things to the food that isn't done here... even if said owner is from LA. It's strange.
A southern-influenced restaurant recently opened up around here. The chef worked in New Orleans. They do BBQ out one side of the kitchen and safe, yet expensive, Southern dishes like shrimp & grits and jambalaya in the sit-down part of the restaurant. The bar uses cognac instead of rye for their Sazerac. Not a problem. However, the $15 shrimp po'boy comes on a ciabatta-style chewy roll. I definitely draw the line there.
Posted on 7/26/21 at 10:12 pm to madamsquirrel
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I prefer Maryland crabcakes to Louisiana ones while we are throwing out unpopular opinions
How would that be an unpopular opinion? Crab cakes I had in Maryland were pretty damn good
Posted on 7/27/21 at 6:30 am to AbitaFan08
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Raw oysters are better in the Northeast than in Louisiana.
Yep.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 6:31 am to McVick
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The bar uses cognac instead of rye for their Sazerac.
So they make it correctly.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 9:53 am to madamsquirrel
Those are often made with Louisiana, Lake Pontchartrain blue crabs. Know a crab/seafood monger, No one here buys #1s anymore, they're too expensive, plus folks in Maryland drive up the prices of our #1s.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 10:14 am to AbitaFan08
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Raw oysters are better in the Northeast than in Louisiana.
Different.
Not better.
A gulf oyster at the right time of year is buttery salty perfection.
A splash of Tabasco/lemon is as far as I go seasoning wise. And that only during the offseason.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 11:52 am to madamsquirrel
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I prefer Maryland crabcakes to Louisiana ones while we are throwing out unpopular opinions.
I don’t think that opinion of yours or the one above about NE oysters should ruffle any feathers.
Now if you try to tell me a steamed lobster is better than spicy boiled crawfish, there might be a visit to Sonic in your near future.
Posted on 7/27/21 at 1:24 pm to X123F45
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Different. Not better.
Agree to disagree.
FWIW I love gulf oysters too. And with the oysters up here you definitely cannot fry or chargrill them properly, so I’m strictly comparing raw.
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Now if you try to tell me a steamed lobster is better than spicy boiled crawfish, there might be a visit to Sonic in your near future
I’m completely on board with you. Lobster is incredibly overrated. Give me crawfish 10 times out of 10 over lobster.
This post was edited on 7/27/21 at 1:25 pm
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