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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Around the corner from my house, but on the same block, there is a Japanese restaurant, a Mexican restaurant, a Thai family restaurant, and a Western-style sandwich shop. For Cajun AND Creole cooking, we have to walk about 5 blocks. 
But in this case, I cooked the chicken at home, as I wanted to try a new recipe. 
We eat Thai food 90% of our meals, but those other 10% can be almost anything you can imagine here. The assortment of restaurants seems to be wider than in large metro cities in the US, and this is a very small town! But with so many retired ex-pats, and restaurant meals costing under $5 for a really good 'ethnic' one (I usually pay under a dollar for a Thai dinner in a restaurant) eating is 'big' around here!
Stitchawl |
Sounds wonderful. We have a large Vietnamese population here, which has led to yumminess. So, you have Creole (French with overlays of Africa and the Americas), Cajun (which moved in from the countryside with Paul Prudhomme), Italian (since the 19th century, there was a large influx of Sicilian Italians and New Orleans Italian developed into its own thing), and the aforementioned Vietnamese. Lately, there is more Thai and Latin American. Funnily enough, there seem to be more Thai places (3 or 4) in the suburban town N. of the lake that I moved from.
Anyway, there aren't any restaurants in my neighborhood but, by work, there is a
neighborhood New Orleans cafe with an Italian bent to the food that serves red beans and rice, po-boys, paninis, salads, etc. They also do breakfast.
The Vietnamese place is on the other side of campus. It is cool but not as good as Phau Tau Bay on the West Bank or
Dong Phuong in the East and way more expensive and hipster. Also, there is a
beignet place in the park and a
snow ball stand (that also serves boudain sausage). I miss
Sala Thai on the Northshore.
/Now I am already hungry for lunch, especially since the last thing I ate (breakfast) was cheerios with almond milk. *sigh*
//I am glad to it pretty inexpensive (or can be) to eat out in New Orleans. My mother cooks Creole, brown-rice-hippie, or Creole with a hippie/healthy bent and does it very well. My brother is also an excellent cook (he likes to make Asian-inspired recipes) but me...I can follow a recipe but am lucky if I don't get distracted and set off the smoke alarm.