Himalaya Restaurant
Bourdain ate: goat biryani, “Texas-Desi style” green curry chicken, steak tikka, and hunter’s beef (an “Indian-inflected pastrami” unique to Houston)
Lunch date: local radio host Sunil Thakkar
Margaret Long Wisdom High School (formerly Robert E. Lee High School)
Bourdain ate: chicken sandwich, fries, fruit salad, and milk
Lunch dates: Jonathan Nguyen Trinh, the school’s principal, and a group of students
Dinner with Trinh’s family
Bourdain ate: tamales de gallina; pupusas; a jellyfish, shrimp, and pork dish; mi quang (a Vietnamese noodle dish); and “Viet-bayou style” crawdads
Dinner dates: Trinh; his Salvadoran-born wife, Silvia; and some of their extended family
Burns Original BBQ
Bourdain had: stuffed baked potato, slow-cooked pork ribs, beef ribs, brisket, and moonshine
Lunch dates: local rapper Slim Thug and his friends David Stunts and Roderick Dearborne (aka “Red Bone”)
The Point
Bourdain ate: pho with brisket, eye-round beef, meatball and tripe, ceviche with fresh shrimp, and tacos with eggs, jalapeños, and tomatoes
Dinner dates: Yen and Bryan Tran, owners of The Point, and their family
Plant It Forward Farms
Bourdain ate: slow-cooked stew of sausage, shrimp, dried mackerel, and Malabar spinach over fufu; and Texas beef brochettes with ratatouille
Lunch dates: Plant It Forward farmers Gertrude and Albert Lombo and Gimoule and Constant Ngouala
Sardar Patel Stadium
18413 West Bellfort Boulevard, Richmond
Bourdain ate: tandoori chicken, curried goat, and potato masala dosas
Dinner dates: Kuldeep Patel, league president of the Houston Indian Cricket Club, and other local cricket players