Pearland’s Boiling Dragon finds niche with ‘Asian-Cajun’ cuisine

“The cuisine path I feel is a good concept. It is supporting the Pearland foodstuff scene by making it into an exercise to go try new dining establishments.”

Boiling Dragon serves imaginative Asian Cajun-influenced dishes from garlic butter and Thai basil crawfish, shrimp and snow crab to fried catfish filets, bulgogi fries, baos, fried rice and garlic noodles.

“Our menu is a true fusion, and I would say 1 of the most artistic menus in the area,” he explained.

Wong, who grew up in Alief, was a chef for a lot more than 20 many years in Houston and has additional than 30 years of encounter in the restaurant enterprise, he explained, “if you rely me supporting at my folks’ restaurants considering the fact that I was in middle school.”

When Wong moved to the Shadow Creek community of Pearland about 15 several years back, he turned included in community rewards and things to do.

“I’ve been seeking to open a cafe in Pearland for six many years so I can be additional active in my individual local community, but Pearland currently being a single of the speediest-building suburbs in the country draws in big corporate chains,” he said. “Big corporate chains make landlords raise lease and that helps make it more difficult for mother and pops to get in the doorway.”

Wong opened Boiling Dragon “smack at the starting of the pandemic” in early 2020.

“The lockdown started in March and matters were just nuts,” Wong said. “No a person understood about us, and we ended up only catching the again stop of crawfish time. It was definitely scary, but we built it by, and now enterprise is particularly busy for the reason that it is crawfish year.”

On the other hand, like quite a few eating places, Boiling Dragon continues to be short-staffed.

“Right now, on the weekends my spouse and I are nevertheless prepping at the restaurant until 2 and 3 a.m. making an attempt to capture up on prep work,” he stated.

Irrespective of the issues, Wong carries on to make his business and support fellow cafe owners.

“I’m in fact doing work on a venture with some other community dining places to launch a Pearland Restaurant 7 days,” comparing his strategy to Houston Cafe 7 days, which reportedly elevated just about $18 million in the past 18 a long time to battle starvation.

“It’s a terrific trigger. HRW is for all of August, so I was considering of September,” reported Wong.

Boiling Dragon serves artistic Asian Cajun-encouraged dishes from garlic butter and Thai basil crawfish, shrimp and snow crab to fried catfish filets, bulgogi fries, baos, fried rice and garlic noodles.

“Our menu is a real fusion, and I would say one of the most innovative menus in the space,” he mentioned.

“Harold Wong is terrific at representing the Pearland culinary scene,” mentioned Rebekah Burns, the advertising supervisor at the Pearland Conference and Website visitors Bureau, which launched the foodie trail March 11 to endorse Pearland as an international culinary destination.