Originally Posted by
josephstern
Glad to see all of the LA votes on here - we have really incredible food. In case anyone is trying to look that up, it should be Sawtelle, and my fave is Tsujita Annex (but others prefer Tsujita or even Tatsu).
Sorry, that was the stupid auto-correct on my tablet. Will correct in the post above.
Houston, despite its size and the wealth in places like River Oaks, has always seemed to be a culinary provincal backwater, at best.
That began to change with the first wave of postwar immigraction from Vietnam. It was further added to after Katrina, when many of the Vietnamese and others from Louisiana evacuated to Houston and decided to stay.