Crawfish & Noodles chef and owner Trong Nguyen offers insights on the origins of Houston's Viet-Cajun cuisine and how to eat crawfish.

Vietnamese cinnamon has the perfect intensity for sweet baked goods, like apple pies or brown butter cinnamon rolls, where this spice plays an important role. It's also the ideal cinnamon for ...

Many local Vietnamese families have cultivated cardamom ... under the canopy of tall trees. As a dried spice, it is used in pho, Vietnam’s ubiquitous noodle soup, and a few other popular dishes.

In the culinary arts, five spice (also known as Chinese five spice) is a blend of ground spices often used in Chinese, Vietnamese and most popularly in Asian cuisine.One theory behind the composition ...