The Asian Cajun

We have an informal dining club at work and a few of us go out to eat on Sundays.  The idea is to try out some of the local flavor as a team with diverse dietary desires.  Amongst others, we have a Hindu who doesn't eat beef, a vegetarian who doesn't eat meat, and myself who doesn't not eat meat.  For variety, each of us decides on a restaurant to try every week, and the selection rotates among our roster.  This week was my choice and I decided to take the team to The Asian Cajun.  (2400 W Alameda Ave Denver, CO / 303-922-0699)

Although it seems like an odd combination, this restaurant combines an Asian menu (primarily Vietnamese) with a Cajun menu quite successfully.  Our dinner tonight consisted of a variety of choices, including fried alligator, calamari, Cajun fries, baby clams in a garlic butter sauce, crawfish in traditional cajun seasoning, pho dac biet (beef noodle soup), and bo luc lac (seared diced steak).

Trust me, you will need those paper towels.

The seafood is actually sealed in a plastic bag along with your choice of seasoning, and the whole bag is boiled.  This allows the seafood to cook without diluting the flavor, which leads to very savory sacks of sea creatures.

A sack of clams in garlic butter with Cajun Seasoning

A helpless invertebrate about to be devoured.

Fried fries, fried calamari, and fried alligator

Overall, I think that the Asian Cajun has a very unique combination of very strong flavors that seem like an odd combination until you try it for yourself.  ScaryMsMary on the other hand thought that everything was a little over-seasoned, and the spice on the crawfish left her mouth burning through the entire meal.

Tongzilla binary rating:

ONE

Tongzilla description:

Savory sacks of sea creatures