Houston Street Food - Part 3 - Ivan Teh

Houston Street Food - Part 3

More Houston Street Food that I've tried during other visits to Houston, Texas, United States Of America, continuing from Part 1, and Part 2.

Pescado Zarandeado

This list includes dishes not listed in Houston Street Food - Part 1, and Part 2. While cuisine is mostly American, there are also influences from British English, Mexican, Chinese, and Italian cuisines.

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The Bagel With Smoked Sturgeon is an American Jewish breakfast dish, typically served in a diner. The Bagel With Smoked Sturgeon features a base of dense chewy firm bagel bun with bready sweet flavour, either plain or studded with sesame seeds, made from bread flour, salt, granulated sugar, yeast, and water. The smoked sturgeon fish is folded with chicken eggs and caramelised white onions or yellow onions, resulting in a flaky tender soft texture with robust smoky salty fishy eggy sweet earthy savoury flavour. The Bagel With Smoked Sturgeon may also be served with some combination of the following; tender paprika spiced roasted potatoes with starchy salty sweet savoury spice flavour, crisp red onions with vegetal earthy sweet spice flavour, firm capers with briny salty sour vegetal flavour, wispy fresh dill with vegetal herbal flavour, smooth cream cheese with milky sweet flavour, or juicy sturgeon fish caviar with briny salty sweet flavour.

Bagel With Smoked Sturgeon

Bagel With Smoked Sturgeon

Bagel With Smoked Sturgeon

Bagel With Smoked Sturgeon

The Bourbon Garrison Brothers Honeydew is a bourbon whisky, brewed by the Garrison Brothers Distillery in Hye, Blanco County, Texas, United States Of America. It has a light copper brown colour, with aromas and tastes of hibiscus flowers, vanilla, honey, cloves, toasted oak wood, plum, and elderberry flowers. The body is creamy, rich, and smooth, with floral earthy fruity sweet honeyed spice woody flavour, with a lingering velvety finish. Pleasing and inviting, so nice.

Bourbon Garrison Brothers Honeydew

Bourbon Garrison Brothers Honeydew

The Bread Onion Caraway is a signature bake that is dense outside, soft inside, and incredibly aromatic. The Bread Onion Caraway is made from all purpose flour, yeast, caramelised white onions, water, chicken eggs, kosher salt, granulated sugar, vegetable oil, pineapple juice, caraway seeds, and butter, resulting in a bready earthy salty sweet nutty flavour that is so addictive. The Bread Onion Caraway is typically served with luxury butter, which lends a buttery milky savoury sweet flavour.

Bread Onion Caraway

Bread Onion Caraway

The Cocktail Lonestar is made with a blend of Woodford Reserve orange bitters, water, white sugar, cinnamon, and Don Julio añejo tequila, served over the rocks with a cinnamon stick stirrer and orange peel garnish. This has bright and strong fruity sour zesty tangy sweet bitter spice boozy flavour, nicely warming.

Cocktail Lonestar

Cocktail Lonestar

The Corn Chips are a snack, most famously produced by Frito-Lay, Inc., for over 80 years. Comprising cornmeal seasoned with salt and deep-fried in vegetable oil, Corn Chips have a hard rigid crunchy texture with grainy salty savoury flavour. The original Corn Chips also serve as a base to which other flavouring may be added, including barbecue, honey, jalapeno, chili pepper, or cheese.

Corn Chips

Corn Chips

The American Chinese dish of Lo Mein features fresh egg noodles and assorted ingredients, stirred in a light sauce. The fresh egg noodles used in Lo Mein are always thick and chewy, stirred with a sauce of light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, water, cornstarch, salt, white sugar, oyster sauce, chicken stock, garlic, and sesame oil, resulting in a grainy salty savoury sweet nutty flavour. The assorted ingredients usually feature some combination of the following; tender sliced meat (beef, chicken, or pork) with meaty salty savoury sweet flavour, fresh crisp vegetables (carrots, white onions, napa cabbage, snow peas, broccoli, bell peppers / capsicum, bean sprouts, or spring onions) with vegetal earthy herbal sweet flavour, or bouncy deshelled shrimp / prawns with meaty savoury sweet flavour. Lo Mein is often ordered as a takeaway dish.

Lo Mein

Lo Mein

The Loaded Baked Potato comprises a whole skin-on potato, partially sliced open lengthwise, garnished with sour cream, butter, spring onions, pork bacon bits, and optional cheddar cheese. Baked and served warm, the Loaded Baked Potato has tender creamy soft crunchy textures, with lovely starchy earthy sour milky vegetal sweet meaty salty flavour. A Loaded Baked Potato is typically served as a side dish.

Loaded Baked Potato

Loaded Baked Potato

Loaded Baked Potato

The American Chinese dish of Orange Chicken is similar to a Sweet And Sour Chicken, featuring boneless pieces of chicken marinated in a batter of all purpose flour, corn starch, whisked chicken eggs, and water, then tossed in a thick sauce made from orange juice, white sugar, white vinegar, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, garlic, ginger, water, corn starch, orange zest, and chili pepper. The Orange Chicken takes on wok hei / breath of the wok, being tender juicy sticky in texture with bright fruity sweet sour zesty tangy spice flavour. Orange Chicken is often served as a side dish to a meal.

Orange Chicken

Orange Chicken

Orange Chicken

The lesser known cousin of the Burger, a Texas Patty Melt is a variant that contains mostly similar ingredients; a thick tender juicy ground beef patty with meaty salty savoury flavour, soft crunchy caramelised white onions or yellow onions with vegetal earthy sweet smoky flavour, gooey stretchy melted cheese (cheddar, American, Swiss, provolone, mozzarella) with cheesy salty flavour, and crisp crunchy streaky pork bacon with meaty salty savoury flavour. The difference lies in the bread, as a Patty Melt uses thick fluffy crisp toasted buttered white bread or rye bread, with smoky bready sweet earthy buttery flavour, instead of burger buns. Eating a Patty Melt is less messy than a Burger, as the sandwich maintains its structural integrity due to all the ingredients being assembled at the same time while still hot.

Patty Melt

Patty Melt

Pecans are plentiful in the state, as such, the Pecan Waffle is fairly common. The Pecan Waffle is made with all purpose flour, shortening, milk or buttermilk, salt, granulated sugar, chicken eggs, baking soda, butter, vanilla essence, and toasted pecan nuts. Usually made-to-order and served warm, a Pecan Waffle has a soft crunchy texture with bready nutty earthy sweet flavour. Dressed with butter and maple syrup to complete.

Pecan Waffle

Pecan Waffle

The Pescado Zarandeado or Fish Zarandeado is a Mexican dish, featuring butterflied white fish, marinated with guajillo chili, salt, mayonnaise, yellow mustard, worcestershire sauce, garlic, fresh tomato sauce or tomato ketchup, key lime juice or lemon juice, white pepper or black pepper, and olive oil, then grilled. The type of white fish used for Pescado Zarandeado varies, but typical fish include red snapper, branzino, sea bass, haddock, grouper, cod, or tilapia. Usually served with a garnish of sliced red onions, oregano, and parsley, marinated with either lime or lemon juice. The Pescado Zarandeado will have tender flaky soft crisp textures, carrying smoky savoury salty spice sweet zesty tangy sour bitter herbal flavour.

Pescado Zarandeado

Pescado Zarandeado

Pescado Zarandeado

Potato Chips, also known as Potato Crisps, are a processed snack made from thinly sliced potatoes that are deep-fried, baked, or air-fried, then seasoned with salt, herbs, spices, and natural flavouring or artificial flavouring. Among the most popular snacks worldwide, Potato Chips are crispy and crunchy in texture, beloved by most. Common flavourings for Potato Chips in America include sour cream and onion (with a starchy salty sour vegetal earthy flavour), barbecue (with a smoky starchy salty sweet flavour), salt and vinegar (with a starchy salty sour sweet flavour), and cheese (with a cheesy starchy salty flavour).

Potato Chips

Potato Chips

Potato Chips

Potato Chips

Potato Chips

The Sandwich Beef Pastrami And Corned Beef, also known as a Reuben And Rachel Sandwich, features generous yet thin slices of corned beef, beef pastrami, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Russian dressing, stacked high between 3 slices of rye bread. Impossible to fit the entire thing in a mouthful, the Sandwich Beef Pastrami And Corned Beef has a spongy tender creamy crunchy texture, with smoky bready sweet meaty salty savoury vegetal sour herbal spice flavour. The Sandwich Beef Pastrami And Corned Beef has a visually appealing look, and is a heavy breakfast dish.

Sandwich Beef Pastrami And Corned Beef

Sandwich Beef Pastrami And Corned Beef

Sandwich Beef Pastrami And Corned Beef

Tortilla Chips are a processed snack made from triangular-shaped corn tortillas (comprising nixtamalized corn, vegetable oil, salt, and water) that are deep-fried, baked, or air-fried, then seasoned with salt, herbs, spices, and natural flavouring or artificial flavouring. The type of corn used to make Tortilla Chips is typically yellow corn or white corn, though less common varieties such as blue corn or red corn may also be used. Tortilla Chips are crispy and crunchy in texture, serving as the base for Nachos, and common flavourings in America include ranch (with a grainy salty milky sweet flavour), lime or lemon (with a grainy salty sour zesty tangy flavour), chili or paprika (with a grainy salty spice flavour), and nacho cheese (with a grainy cheesy salty flavour).

Tortilla Chips

Tortilla Chips

Tortilla Chips

Tortilla Chips

Tortilla Chips

A Surf And Turf is a large main course which combines seafood and meat, hence its name. The meat of a Surf And Turf is typically a top-tier beef steak, seasoned with salt and black pepper and grilled to a medium rare doneness, with the cut of beef steak being striploin, tenderloin, or ribeye. The seafood of a Surf And Turf is similarly luxurious, often simply boiled or steamed and seasoned with salt or garlic butter, with the seafood of choice being lobster, shrimp / prawns, or scallops. The epitome of conspicuous consumption as it combines 2 luxury food items, a Surf And Turf meal represents the best of land and sea.