Diaspora

Chef Lisa Nelson serves up sensational doubles, jerk chicken, and other Trinidadian staples.

Dunk your doughnut in a Vietnamese egg coffee or come through during Mardi Gras for the highly coveted king cakes.

This confectioner serves one of the finest renditions of Antep baklava outside of Turkey.

Feast on coconut crab curry at one of Thailand’s only outposts of Baba cuisine.

Taste the precursor of peri-peri chicken at this restaurant just outside of Lisbon.

Hidden in a Hollywood apartment, this restaurant takes diners on a gastronomic journey through West Africa.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

This Peruvian-Chinese institution has perfected the art of rotisserie chicken—alongside plantains and lo mein.

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.

Two James Beard Award-winning chefs are putting their own spin on Filipino favorites in a food market stall.

The menus here are a love letter to the culinary history of New Orleans.

Luminaries from Albert Einstein to John Lennon once had a cup of coffee at Tokyo's oldest café.

Venture from downtown Houston to the suburb of Katy for stellar Malaysian food.

Viet-Cajun is a true hybrid cuisine that evolved in Houston and at this Asiatown mainstay, there’s more to it than just crawfish.

This South-by-South-Asian restaurant serves up Indian-spiced Southern fried chicken and a Desi-style pastrami.

Some of the best Chinese-Vietnamese fusion can be found at outposts of this homegrown empire.

West African flavors shine at this unassuming strip mall spot in southwest Houston.