Road Trip to the South: New Orleans

Cafe Du Monde
(after a TORTUROUS long wait for lunch at Stanley restaurant.
No photo from Stanley because we were driven INSANE by hunger)  

Crowded but hey! NO line when we came :)

Sugar fix (after the depressing long lunch wait)
Chicory flavor in the coffee... hmm... interesting...

We didn't order ham at Mother's.

Seafood Platter
(fried oysters, fried catfish, fish softshell crab & fried shrimps with turnip green and grits)

Gee... it's either a seafood gumbo or a jambalaya or a shrimp creole...
featuring hyper overcooked shrimp that tasted like crumbly erasers

At Johnny's Po-boy

Shrimp Po-boy

Another dose of beignet and coffee

I LOVE seafood and decided to have only seafood Po-boys for meals in New Orleans.
There is only 1 photo of a shrimp Po-boy belonging the table next to us at Johnny's
because I couldn't remember to take a pic before eating 
and often, neither does my sister or mon ami.


The better seafood we have eaten in New Orleans were the fried ones.
The seafood we had, done in other ways, (etc Jambalaya or the baked crab from Restaurant des Familles below) were criminally overcooked and flavors buried in seasoning and spices.

The corn and rice sides were cop outs.
The sad slice of bread under the ceramic crab shell dish is probably not to be eaten but rather to keep the dish from slipping off the plate?