Casian Seafood - Lafayette

Food tastes great, but a bit inconsistent. I've eaten papaya salad my whole life, and this is the first time I've ever seen seeds in my papaya salad, a bit lazy if you ask me. The sausage is a lot smaller than what is shown online. The sticky rice canbe good on some days, or other days where you get very obvious older rice because it's rock hard in the center. Quitedisappointed since there aren't much alternatives.

I will give them credit for a very creative idea, however not sure the execution lives up to the hype. Service was very very slow, by the time my wife got her dinner every one else was done eating. Also any Cajun interpretation without gumbo seemsincomplete. Boils are fine just not anything I ever crave or want regularly. Their jambalaya sauce and rice was ok but theseafood tasted soapy.

@casian_seafood a 2022 James Beard Best New Restaurant semifinalist was very good. I don?t believe I?ve had Hmong food before certainly not at a restaurant. It was subtly yet clearly different from other East and SE Asian food. I started with the Hmongstyle egg rolls. They were very crunchy nicely browned and not greasy. Reminiscent of Vietnamese egg rolls even with a similardipping sauce. For my entree I had the Hmong Sausage it was very savory with pork belly and the distinctive flavor oflemongrass. They offered it with rice or sticky rice; I definitely wanted to try the sticky rice. It came extremely hot and wassomewhat painful extracting it from the plastic wrap and the first few bites was amazing. Unfortunately as it cooled it driedout quickly and hardened somewhat. I overheard the server mentioning fried ice cream to the next table and had to get it. Theoutside crunchy part [I really have no idea what it was wrapped in] was really good but the ice cream had melted a bit. It wasstill really good though. Definitely want to come back and try more Hmong dishes. They were advertising live crawfish aswell?though seasonal?but the boils looked good. Definitely want to try some of those too.

Good seafood! I had the seafood medley boil with spicy casian sauce. The seafood was all delicious and cooked perfectly, and they weren't kidding about the spicy part. Only 4 stars because they really messed up the margarita.

Amazing flavors and great seafood. The staff was very helpful and patient. Will definitely go again.