Updated August 2026. Houston's Southeast Asian food scene extends far beyond the Vietnamese restaurants everyone already knows about. Tucked into strip malls across Sugar Land, Spring Branch, Alief, and Bellaire, you will find Malaysian rendang, Indonesian nasi goreng, Burmese mohinga, Laotian larb, and Thai boat noodles — cuisines that most American cities cannot support because they lack the immigrant communities to sustain them. Houston has all of them. These are not fusio