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New Orleans Crawfish Boil
Posted on 3/12/19 at 12:31 pm
Posted on 3/12/19 at 12:31 pm
I was in town this past weekend for a conference. I ventured away from the quarter and spent some time on Magazine, Irish Channel, and Mid-City. I ate some great food.
I ordered 5 pounds of boiled crawfish at 2 different restaurants and got 2 totally different flavors and styles.
1 restaurant was the typical to what I am used to eating. Clean boil, clean crawfish, and great spicy flavor. The other restaurant had mounds of dry seasoning and very oily/buttery base all over the crawfish.
This was my first time in ordering and eating crawfish in NOLA. Which one is normal?
I ordered 5 pounds of boiled crawfish at 2 different restaurants and got 2 totally different flavors and styles.
1 restaurant was the typical to what I am used to eating. Clean boil, clean crawfish, and great spicy flavor. The other restaurant had mounds of dry seasoning and very oily/buttery base all over the crawfish.
This was my first time in ordering and eating crawfish in NOLA. Which one is normal?
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Posted on 3/12/19 at 12:32 pm to Trauma14
quote:don't waste your time
eating crawfish in NOLA
Many other other options
Posted on 3/12/19 at 12:35 pm to Rouge
What? It’s not that hard to find good crawfish in Nola
Posted on 3/12/19 at 12:44 pm to Trauma14
I’m going to guess the dry seasoning and oily ones came from Tracey’s.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 2:00 pm to Trauma14
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he other restaurant had mounds of dry seasoning and very oily/buttery base all over the crawfish.
Did you go to that "Boil House" place? If so those are Vietnamese style.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 2:02 pm to Trauma14
The first style is typical.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 2:02 pm to Trauma14
Not totally related, but I was in New Orleans last week and saw crawfish selling for $12/lb in the French Market. Spent a good few minutes alternating between shock and laughter
Posted on 3/12/19 at 2:23 pm to Saskwatch
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Did you go to that "Boil House" place? If so those are Vietnamese style.
Exactly where I got the dry seasoning with oil ones. They had good flavor, just not traditional like I expected.
The other place was Clesi's. Much more in line with a backyard boil. I enjoyed those much better.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 3:21 pm to Trauma14
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Exactly where I got the dry seasoning with oil ones. They had good flavor, just not traditional like I expected.
So you didn't have "NOLA style crawfish" there. That's Vietnamese style. They were all the rage 3-4 years ago.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 3:28 pm to MightyYat
Dern I heard about them last year.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 3:32 pm to MightyYat
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So you didn't have "NOLA style crawfish" there. That's Vietnamese style. They were all the rage 3-4 years ago.
You yelling at me?
There was absolutely nothing to signify this was a Vietnamese style. I technically ordered "cajun extra hot". Never even seen options on how to flavor the crawfish before.
This is what they came out looking like...still good, just unexpected.
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