1979
Leaving Bạc Liêu
Ba was nineteen and had already spent half his life on his uncle’s shrimp boat. He left with one bag of clothes and a knack for finding shrimp that nobody in the family has managed to learn.
Our story
Why we’re called Two Deltas
Ba grew up on the Mekong Delta. He learned to boil crawfish on the Mississippi Delta, working shrimp boats with Cajun crews out of Buras, Louisiana. The name is for both places. The amount of garlic is all his.
Swipe to follow BaBa grew up on the Mekong Delta. He learned to boil crawfish on the Mississippi Delta, working shrimp boats with Cajun crews out of Buras, Louisiana. The name is for both places. The amount of garlic is all his.
Scroll on and ride along with Ba
1985
Palacios, Texas
After a few seasons in Louisiana, Ba and Má bought a tired 38-foot boat in Palacios and sold shrimp off the dock at five every morning. Má kept the books. Ba kept the engine running, mostly by talking to it.
1998
The Mekong Star
The second boat was bigger and newer, and Ba named it after home. It still goes out most weeks, and most of the shrimp in your boil came in on it.
2011
Danny opens the doors
Their son Danny had cooked in Houston kitchens for ten years and wanted a place of his own. He opened on the Kemah waterfront with six tables, one boil pot and a gallon jug of Má’s sauce.
Today
Still a family business
Ba is in his sixties and still goes out on the boat when his knees agree to it. Danny runs the kitchen. Má tastes the first batch of sauce every morning, and it isn’t ready until she says so.
