Vietnamese Immigrants Carry on a Cajun Food Tradition

This immigrant family is combining the sauces and spices from their homeland with the seafood and culture of Louisiana Cajuns at his restaurant in Atlanta. Read this whole story, a perfect example of how immigrants make America what it is today. - - Donna Poisl

By JOHN T. EDGE

ATLANTA--HIEU PHAM serves about a ton of Louisiana crayfish each week here at the Crawfish Shack Seafood, boiling them in a slurry of commercial seasoning mix, garlic cloves, orange wedges and lemon grass stalks.

Cast nets hang from the acoustical-tile ceiling of the strip-mall restaurant, located behind his father’s auto-repair shop along a multiethnic corridor north of downtown. Cans of Café Du Monde coffee sit by the register, and Louis Armstrong plays in heavy rotation.
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