Didn’t Get Wings in New Orleans 🍗😅

New Orleans lies along the Mississippi River — which means plenty of seafood! 🦐 🥗 Vegetable Salad (forgot the exact name) — shared a spinach salad with fried oysters and bacon. The spinach was just spinach, but the fried oysters were special. At first, I didn’t realize they were oysters and joked with my friend, “Why is this fried chicken so fatty?” 😂 Lesson learned: in New Orleans salads, seafood is the star. 🍗 Sweet Heat Chicken and French Toast + 🍅 Fried Green Tomatoes Starter The first dish: fried chicken + French toast + sliced strawberries. The French toast was sweet, and the fried chicken was exactly what I wanted — crispy and flavorful. But personally: first bite = wow 😮, second bite = yum 😋, third bite = okay 👌, fourth bite = meh 😐, and after that… it got heavy. The fried green tomatoes though — delicious! Topped with lettuce bits, diced tomatoes, remoulade sauce, and bacon-onion jam. Might’ve been my first time trying green tomatoes ever! 🥪 Shrimp Po’Boy Fried shrimp + French bread + shredded lettuce + tomato slices + pickles. Walking around New Orleans, you’ll see Po’Boys everywhere. Did you know? “Po’Boy” is short for “Poor Boy.” It originated in New Orleans in 1929 during a streetcar workers’ strike. Two former streetcar workers turned restaurant owners, the Martin brothers, gave out free oversized sandwiches to their unemployed colleagues. The kitchen would yell, “Here comes another poor boy!” — and the name stuck. I skipped lunch and was starving — finished the whole huge sandwich! 😮🍤 🍚 Red Beans & Rice On my last day in NOLA, I ate solo at Napoleon House — chosen for its beautiful, atmospheric decor. Turns out it’s also a famous historic building 🏛️, built in the late 1700s/early 1800s as the mayor’s residence. It’s named after Napoleon because there was a plan (never realized) to host him in exile here. Listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1970. The red beans and rice is a local comfort food — served with soft sliced bread and house-smoked sausage. Cozy and hearty. #InternationalStudentLife #StudyAbroadMentalState #DailyLifeAbroad #NewOrleans #NOLAFood 🎓🍽️🎷