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What should you eat when you’re in New Orleans?  For a native New Orleanian this is easy, seafood.  But not just any seafood.  Make sure you ask for fresh Louisiana seafood.  Those that care won’t mind that you asked and those that do mind, well, I don’t think you want to eat at their establishment anyway. 

So, what seafood dishes are the best?  I’m glad you asked.  Creole seafood gumbo is top on the list, which includes any and hopefully all of the following: blue crab, shrimp, oysters, andouille sausage, and plenty of cayenne pepper (for the really courageous).  Next, their are a variety of items I would say rank way up at the top of the list; boiled crawfish (make sure you suck the heads), fried oysters, fried catfish, fried shrimp, seafood platter with everything fried (only if you cholesterol is not to high, in which case, it may be after this one), jambalaya, anything etouffee, shrimp poboy, oyster poboy, catfish poboy, oyster gumbo, chicken and andouille gumbo, crawfish pie, sweet potato pie, pecan pie, merliton stuffed with shrimp dressing, merliton pie, stuffed crabs, red beans and rice, and just about anything you can find should be good.

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