 I don't I don't back now not not too much not too much two drops two drops Okay, Virginia style soul food or Louisiana Cajun Mac and cheese or jambalaya pork chop or Boudin We're here with two friends from college that you might have seen on the channel before Jordan Dakers Wong is a hip-hop DJ born in Georgia and of Jamaican Chinese descent Jordan. Visley the animal expert He grew up in Seattle, but has roots from Louisiana. So we're gonna hit two restaurants We're gonna talk food get an authentic experience and maybe come to a final conclusion All right, so here we are today doing a soul food episode of fun grows food on my left I got Jordan Visley. It's good as a black zookeeper It provides me the unique opportunity to inspire children of color who come to the zoo and on my right I got Jordan Dakers Wong So on this side we have one restaurant Nana Southern kitchen which is right behind us And then on this side we have the Seattle favorite easels famous chicken honestly, bro I'm looking at the shrimp and the chicken. Oh, you know, it was cool I actually got a chance to talk to Nana and she mentioned how like they don't batter too much For those recipes originated from my great-grandmother we keep simplicity and we haven't had a problem I'm excited. I'm waiting for Nana's number two. Originally. I believe the recipes are more from Virginia and these recipes He's else is from Texas, right? So I'm Todd Minor. I'm the owner my great-grandma Myrtle Henderson She's from Virginia when she used her food to bring people together Teach life lessons and she welcomed everybody these recipes have been in my family for over a hundred years Everybody has their own different version of soul food or southern food, right? But Virginia is really good about the chicken your fried fish your fried pork chop What's it like being right across from these elves? First of all, I'm super proud of these elves I mean what they were able to do in a Pacific Northwest before there was a bunch of diversity in this area like for that family and that legacy Well done. I can learn a bunch from these elves and what they've been able to accomplish We won't be able to move at the same speed as most casual fast food places But I'm super proud of the plate that you'll get and I grew up here in Seattle My stuff comes from my grandmother who is from Louisiana and then smoothed to Texas My mom just you know it kind of transformed into more of a Seattle thing like Seattle type of type of food The Seattle version would be like fried salmon I'm just kidding. I had to think about that one man. I don't even know where to start guys If we could should start with the chicken. All right. All right immediately you guys This is the Nana's wing. Okay. This is well seasoned He's a good or bad I would say man this chicken is cooked perfectly. Yeah, but it's not um super spicy or anything All right, so we finished up with Nana's we all enjoyed it But we got to try and compare it to Ezel's famous chicken. Let's go with the regular first It's a regular so this is Ezel's famous chicken. This is the number one Seattle brand of fried chicken Started and found it in Seattle. Let's go. There was elements that I like better of both You know what I mean is that was like a lot thicker and juicier way more breading Yeah, feels like it's almost more of a buttermilk covering because it kind of has that smooth crust on top That's kind of locked everything in right. Let's try the spicy real quick from these L's. This is I Know it's kind of early. What y'all thinking after your first bites. Oh It's definitely closer now. Yeah I agree I would still go with Nana's same same same but again, I'm gonna be this blood dead horse Mom's better. All right. Well, if you're gonna keep for advertising that we got I'll bring all bring on the show Yeah, when it comes to these L's, I think it's safe to say you've got to get the spicy chicken But if you had to compare between Nana's Andy's L's overall, I mean, I feel like the consensus is we're more rolling with Nana's We have so much more food to go guys. You know what let everybody pick their own Protein immediately was catching your eyes. I want that shrimp Give me that shrimp. I will try a shrimp. Yes. I'm gonna go with a pork chop then. Hey, I'm gonna go with the catfish right here Boom I told you flavorful all season was a one on it catfish Catfish is pretty good. It's like this very neutral taste. That's just catfish in general This was really good like the batter is really good very buttermilk batter. Can you get catfish out in Washington? No, so it had to come from somewhere else probably mm-hmm Okay, catfish are kind of like bottom feeders like they're like everywhere and like most mostly southern states though They're really disgusting. They're like garbage disposal They eat everything. Well, what a pitch for catfish. So eat the catfish. Oh man, everything was good. Nana's mac and cheese It's very cheesy very cheesy like it has bits like larger bits of cheese Is that cheese baked to the top though? This is Ezel's mac and cheese obviously comparing the mac and cheese Let's put them side to side. All right guys I'm gonna try both mac and cheese is next to each other real quick. I don't know what you're gonna like milky Less sharp on the Ezel side. This one's stuck together So I guess it tastes homemade see like I'm telling you homemade mac and cheese is all like if you pick it up And it doesn't stick together and it's soupy and like spools spools out. They didn't make it right Yeah, put it back enough But here's the greens here for greens I feel like a lot of people who cook greens also throw ham hocks. Yeah pieces of ham hocks in it So I feel like I always want to eat greens I always prefer that one piece of ham hock and I guess I know you get the real taste if you guys had to pick a green Oh, the color greens the green beans and you said that cabbage greens. Yeah. Oh, I would pick color green color Green beans are good, but you know, I prefer color greens They're good, they're good, but I like I prefer color greens over Mix in it the advice from that gentleman right there Which thing I think it's a good balance because the cabbage has less flavor Yeah, then the color greens if you want slight color green flavor, then it works We got to get into the desserts real quick. So everybody just pick a dessert. What do you what are you looking at? We have bread we have the crunchy strawberry Strawberry look at this thing This is the this is a chocolate crumble a chocolate crumble and then there's strawberry kind of art. Here you go. Look at that So what are what is some other? So food desserts that like we may have not seen are not served everywhere because I know this peach cobbler There's pine balsa down cake Pineapple upside down cake. Okay, I see that. Yeah, no y'all are still talking Bro, just interrupt our whole conversation table Best thing on table for short. Wow, bro Bro, right y'all we all doing right. No, yes Yeah, wow, I don't know if the strawberry crunch can follow. Nah, it's not but we'll see maybe No, it's hard. No, not really. Let me see. This is good. It is good, but it's not like that I'll say the reason that that chocolate one is so good. Yeah, it's almost like the top of a cupcake Mm-hmm, but just the part you want. Yeah, that has all the textures that I want. It's sticky It's crunchy. It's sweet. It's soft. This peach cobbler is from Yzel's the peach cobbler has a lot of peaches in it Yo, the candy games are good. Whoa the candy games. They're good. They're good sweet for me personally I do have a sweet tooth. So the candy and you don't like sweet candy and don't buy my candy and their candy and for a reason You know the rain started coming down. So we had to speed it up. We tried like everything really quick So what would you guys like? What stood out in the catfish was good But I think that pork chop has something special to it. Okay to be different. I'm gonna go with the shrimp I thought the shrimp is just ever good. They were pretty good. We're good It was hard for me to chew. It was tough. I love the greens. I'm a collard green fan So I'm always in that you guys think that categorically the the home style spots have the advantage I think that's a pretty good statement to make you can add more to it because I feel like it's a different audience Yeah, whereas commercial I feel like it goes to more of a wider range of people So like they have to make sure everything's kind of like desserts If all of our answers are not the same I might just leave I Like the peach cobbler a lot For me for me for me. Oh, I'm gonna actually sleep or pick I'm actually go with the strawberry version because you know what I like a little bit lighter dessert look man It's okay because it's right here. It's just untouchable. There's cream. There's crunch. There's soft Let me just show you this is Jordan Jordan's order And the dessert from Nana. I love my chocolate I might do that cookie and cake smoothie though. I don't know all right So we finished up here with the southern soul food before we transition on to the Cajun spot Which is in downtown Kent We got to try some of this true tea boba and and this kind of goes to show you like the diversity and Kent that I think is Increasing as the years go on There's it's Vietnamese owned and it's a boba shop in the same plaza as we're eating Nana Southern kitchen The owner talked to us about knowing him and how he's like cool with the guy that owner of the bubble tea place So this one is the premium chocolate Oreo cream milk tea with the boba. All right here. I have this rose matcha latte Half red half green mix it up a little bit Are those flowers in there? Yeah, it's a little bit of floral flavor. So this is the handmade purple yam milk tea I don't know if you guys have had that purple yam trees at certain bakeries. I've seen them I've never actually yeah, yeah, they're really delicious. So that's my reason for picking this one I'm just curious if it tastes just like the treats I got a dragon fruit cheese foam one with Cherry bobas at the bottom Yeah, this one looks crazy here. We have on the leechy dragon fruit Jasmine tea This is their best seller and then the creme brulee milk milk tea because they actually torch the top Yo, we have like she that grows wild in Jamaica, which is crazy. No only when I drink bubble tea I didn't even see that when we first went in there because that's normally when I get stuff I'll look for like she stuff these bobas are like very visually. Yes real quick What do you guys know about like Cajun or Creole food from Louisiana? I just feel like most places up here aren't gonna be like that I mean unless they really have folks that like really came from down there like they're in there cooking cooking human feet and stuff So your grandmother's from Louisiana. Yeah originally did she cook Cajun food growing up? I feel like the longer you've been up here I feel like sometimes it goes away my grandmother didn't really cook like that these people are straight from Louisiana They open up this spot. All right now. We're gonna head down to Althus Louisiana store in Delhi All right, we have just arrived to Althus Louisiana Cajun store in Delhi What we're gonna be doing is we're gonna go inside do a little shopping try some Cajun food Yeah, I'm from New Orleans 2016 when we open this place up here It's called Althus Louisiana Cajun store and we open it up in the name of my mother and we bring everything from Louisiana up here I'm messing it up There's no market as of today We're the only one in the state of Washington that sells everything from Louisiana We get a lot of the basketball players Jamal Crawford comes here Earl Thomas used to come in him and his family and stuff Nate Robinson his family a lot of those guys It comes up here and stuff. We would love to come in and try stuff with stuff No, we got stuffed chicken stuff with rice and crawfish We got alligator breaded oak root. We got catfish Frog legs tough pork chops tougher rice and crawfish or rice and shrimp up inside of it Oh, who name is a sausage of stuff with a rice and crawfish up inside of it gumbo already pre-made up and stuff from the south We fly this here from a boat bridge Louisiana. We got rabbit man. We've got deer sausage. Yo, they got a whole alligator over here Yeah, we sell the whole alligator we sell alligator nuggets we sell alligator tails We different from everybody and stuff, you know nanos got their own flavor stuff and we got our own flavor Our flavor's more 100% southern and they're more kind of a southern East Coast We can get some Gator Ever since we were kids our mom taught all us how to cook and everything it's ten boys and four girls And I retired on my day job. I was there for 30 years I retired in two years ago and then we get ready to expand this place We've been to bring all the stuff from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and the caribans My grandma's from originally from Louisiana, but she moved to Texas when she came here So like I didn't grow up with deep stuff by her not being able to get the stuff in you kind of lost it I Need chips or snacks or desserts that we should get to go along with this for we are we got pecan powers get them out of Bo bridge, Louisiana, and then our boot and it's a really number one Boot and then I alligator nuggets here is our number one sellers Okay, we have set up a table right outside of Althos, Louisiana and Cajun store in Delhi at the moment We were not able to order the etouffee and the jambalaya and the gumbo But we have some pretty pretty New Orleans dishes guys. We're gonna fight the train in the background We have a whole set of po-boys here fried oyster po-boys. Who's down with the oyster? I'll try the oyster pork sausage po-boy Okay, we got the shrimp po-boy I got the catfish because I love the catfish from Nana's Louisiana po-boys. Hey Pretty good spice on there What would you have liked or not liked about it? I'm a very picky dude, bro. I'm shocked I'm not the biggest fan of like messy things. So, you know, I'm actually diagnosed with OCD I like my hands clean at all times, which is why I always have a napkin in my hand. Okay, but I fight it. Yeah I did I'm fine. Hey, you know, I'm good. I'm good No, this is really good, but the oyster I've never had it that way having like this like deep-fried oyster It's actually really good. Like it's giving like it's like a really soft I've actually never had them smoke sausage in a sandwich before but then this is really good All right, let's open this up. Is that a thing who could take spicy? I'm more vocal about my lack of ability to eat spicy foods You might get roasted like I might get roasted For me my mouth is not on fire or anything but when it hit my mouth I was oh, yeah, so we just had the po-boys guys. We are going on now to their premier item, which is the Boudine he pronounces it Boudine. I thought he said I swear. That's what he said Sausage or stuff with a rice and crawfish up inside of it guys Boudine rice sauce. So this one's you can tell it's really soft cuz it kind of fell apart Boudin sausage This almost tastes like in some ways almost like a jambalaya in a sausage absolutely Yeah, that's like one of the best things we had today for sure I'm not gonna lie with the pork chop Boudin. I got to give that for me like a five out of five I would recommend anybody get the Boudin sausage. What is that? Oh, that's tamales. Oh So they just have that all is they also have egg rolls too and we have hush puppies here So it has a little seasoning inside right? It's like cornbread. Here's my check on hush puppies The way you call that is Boudin Boudin personally, what's your favorite po-boy? Y'all enjoy it man All right guys, let's try the fried okra. This one is better than these else hundred percent. Yeah hands down way better They're not like overly gooey on the inside at the batter too. Yeah, ours are a little bit more than a crumbly batter. It's better I'm gonna say this at the beginning. It looks red. That means it's gonna be spicy. You're red alarm You're red alert right now What can we do to get you to try some of that I Don't back now. Not too much. Not too much two drops two drops Stop your mother's a nice addition because it's really tangy. It's not that spicy. Mm-hmm. I'm proud of myself. No We're gonna put it in slow motion some music some triumphant Yeah, oh wait what I stand corrected it was a medium level heat Chicken waffles Never get old great. There's not many things that are better. Oh, no, that was good I'm gonna have to get some more syrup You know what I like about how they do it here at Althus is that the waffle is soft and fluffy You have the crispy chicken and then the soft soft waffles. We have a squirrel friend right behind us So we should not feed the wildlife. Oh They're animals question you in the city do not throw bird crumbs at the pigeons. No, no, okay I was doing that last week. Give them the Mike Tyson Give them the Mike Tyson Mike Tyson at pigeons his pitches Mike doesn't have pigeons When did he have pigeons? Oh my god All right guys is a tamale here at Althus Yeah All right guys finishing off here we have one of their pecan pies Everything in the store comes from Louisiana even this pecan pie. It's crummy. Yeah, it's good It's gooey. It's chewy. It's crispy. This was really good. Good. This is my favorite dessert We had to say it the crush dude. It's like got the almost like a baklava type like honey glaze to it It's one of my favorite desserts for sure. All right, everybody that is wrapping up our Southern soul food versus Cajun food. It's not really a battle. Obviously, there's different styles What was your guys's favorite things man? As far as the pork chop goes. I'm gonna go back and get that for sure My favorite protein was probably Oh, I think that pork chop man. My favorite side was probably mac and cheese from Nana's not for me's else I'm a shrimp guy. So I can't leans for the shrimp just because that's my thing the biggest thing I enjoyed was the oyster pulled boy for me I was gonna say I really like the boudin sausage. Oh, Katie yams. Yeah Nanna's I gotta roll with the catfish at Nana's because I just love fried fish when the guy told us to mix the cabbage With collard greens. I thought that was cool. My chocolate a little thing at Nana's It is probably not my favorite today favorite might have been that strawberry one. Oh Told you wait, I told you it's a good middle ground All brands are not the same. I might just leave No, it's weird I'm gonna go with the pecan the pecan pie. That was good. I'm gonna go with the Pecan pie too, uh, I'm just gonna roll with the chocolate crumble on this one because that was the best single bite And I'm not telling you Billy. I took one bite of the pecan pie. It was great, too You know what it is you guys didn't meet Nana. I met her earlier for you guys. I have I guess for the people who are watching at home and what's one dish that they got to try that? We didn't have today gumbo gumbo I'm liking less and the best gumbo I had was at a barber shop in a crock pot, you know, he will cut them through It was it was good man back at the combo What barf art we had to come back on another day to get the etouffee. This is an incredibly Cajun Creole dish here at Althas. They are keeping it super authentic Louisiana You know why Andrew they don't serve every dish on every day Traditionally, it's like you want to switch up the menu every day Just so you don't run out at each thing and just so you can switch it up on people So you're not eating the same thing over and over again, and that's what Neil was telling us out there I think a lot of people are almost more familiar with gumbo and jambalaya than with etouffee man David. Let's try it I'm excited to try so this is only crawfish. There's no other meat in here. There's no sausage crawfish etouffee Yeah, it's good. Oh my good. Good a little spicy very smooth though the taste of crawfish I would say it's a little bit more of Almost a denser flavor than shrimp, but it's smaller. 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