multi-million dollar industry here. the style and budget can vary enormously, depending on means and ambition. friends, relatives and neighbors gather to eat, drink, dance, and they are keeping a close eye on the action, making sure everyone goes according to plan. who gets invited to these things? this is a lot of people. i don t have this many friends. friends and family. you invite all the girl s friends from school? yes. any girls? four girls. all of them have had these? a couple of them have had their quinceanera and sweet 16. you have a quinceanera and a sweet 16? yes. i was excited about having a girl, but that s expensive.
needs of its community. food for vietnamese and food for mexicans. yen, bryan, their kids jennifer and kimberly as well as cousin tv and his son, donny. all proud citizens of the united states of america, by the way. yen: you know, i really feel fortunate we live in this town and we have a lot of support. when we went to open this store, all my friends said, i want to have vietnamese food. i know that here you have to have mexican food. so i went and talked to the best mexican cook in town maricela. bryan:yeah, this is the, the chef right here. maricela: hi. yen: yeah. bryan: good chef. this is maricela. anthony: the pho here is good. brisket, eye round, meatball, tripe and tendon, just like back home. ceviche made from vinh s fresh
matagorda bay. and, like a lot of the communities down here, the principal industry is fishing, shrimp in particular. it s also where, beginning in the 1970s as the vietnam war ground to its ignominious conclusion, that thousands of vietnamese found new lives and a new home. to have remained would have meant, in most cases, arrest, imprisonment, reeducation camps, or worse. so all you want is shrimp at this point. doan: yeah. anthony: okay. vinh: i got two large several, uh, get shrimp and fish. but i got enough feed for the fish. anthony: the shrimp you take. vinh: yup, big shrimp. doan: big shrimp, big shrimp. vinh: the small we don t get shrimp. anthony: you don t want it. vinh: we don t want those. how much do you need a day? 800 a day. anthony: the shrimping has declined considerably since the 1980s, but the bay still provides a solid livelihood for people like vinh who made it out
of the best east texas style barbecue you can find around here. it s been a while, i believe last time i was here the grandfather was here back then. slim thug: well you re in the right place for some barbecue, man. burns barbecue. anthony: so, what do you do? ribs and brisket or uh slim thug: i do all of that. anthony: you do all of it, okay. slim thug: all of that. what is that? bone: moonshine. dukes of hazzard. bo s hos. [ laughter ] anthony: wow. i could drink a lot of that. okay, that s gonna work. a torpedo size baked potato filled with cheddar cheese and chopped barbecue beef and homemade link sausage. slow-cooked pork ribs. big ass beef ribs. and brisket. bone: whoa. okay, i got a baked potato. anthony: this baked potato is yours. bone: it s, it s marvelous. anthony: that thing is, like, gigantic. my mother always said, never eat anything bigger than your head. that is about the size of a human head. slim thug: that look good though, i ain t gonna l
where? pakistan. and you ve been here how long? one year. your english is very good. it took me two years to be brave enough to open up. do you eat african food? i have been in africa a lot. the love the food in ghana and senegal. very nice. your first day in school, was it frightening? i didn t know here. so i feel scared, i learn english and talk to people. after school, when you graduate high school what do you want to do next? i want to be a fashion designer and i want to go to college and i want to study more. what are you going to do? i want to go to college and study medicine.