before i'd answer a question like that." thank you so much for being with us tonight. certainly a lot of breaking news. we will have much more for you ahead on "new day." but ahead for us here tonight, the greatest sushi chef in america takes our anthony bourdain back to where it all started, "parts unknown: japan" tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. i'm poppy harlow in new york. have a great week. [ speaking foreign language ] rise and shine! it's a beautiful day in houston, but it's going to be a hot one! ♪ i took a walk through this

beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪ close-minded, prejudicial, quick to make assumptions about someplace different than where we grew up. i'm not talking about texas, i'm talking about, well, me, and people like me who are way too comfortable thinking of texas as a big space filled with intolerant, invariably

right-wing people, waddling between the fast-food outlet and the gun store. that, of course, is wrong. but then i'm used to being wrong. texas, houston in particular, is a very different place than you might imagine from the stereotypes and the sound bites of its national political figures. immigrants, refugees and nonwhite americans have, in fact, been transforming the c y city, the food and culture of houston for years. welcome to america, people. ♪ >> just another day at the supermarket, a sleepy strip mall on houston's hillcroft avenue. the grocer who's been serving the community since 1994. today they're hosting a quiet, low-key affair.

>> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen! how are we doing today? [ cheers and applause ] we're here in little india, and i think this is the best little india in all of usa, right? i want to throw a party right now. everybody, let's start this party! ♪ ♪ >> put your hands up, everybody! ♪

>> how large is the community here? >> 200,000 people. >> that's india and pakistan and what? >> india, pakistan, a few nepalis. >> so 200,000 and rising quick. sunol is on 1320 on your a.m. dial. himalaya is a beloved pakistani restaurant ran by kaiser lushkari. >> the food here is amazing, like india and pakistani mix together. >> now, how does that work, because over there relations not so friendly. here it is everybody, is it all peace and love? >> yeah, you know, there is no boundaries here. i see so many homes, new homes, new subdivisions and people just going up. on my street, 18 homes. 12 out of them are from other countries -- india, pakistan, malaysia, indonesia. and once you live together, you

become family. how many brown people here? any non indians? i want to see non indians. do we have any non indians? i'm going to see how good this asian guy can do a bollywood step. move like this. move like this. yeah! >> how old were you when you moved here? >> i was 17 when i came here. >> oh, wow! >> and growing up, i wanted to be a bollywood star. i wanted to be a movie star. my mom didn't want me to do anything with this whole movie business. when i came here, and something abouthis country, something about the openness, kind of doing what i wanted to do. and i said, i always wanted to be an entertainer, always wanted to be a comedian, and radio was perfect for me to bring bollywood in people's cars. houston's got the biggest drive time. >> so people listen to the radio here. >> i couldn't do this back home, but here you get a chance to just be a new you. you can just be a new person. you know, they say all hindus reincarnate thousands of times. i feel like i reincarnated life

when i came here. >> the intensely aromatic beriyami, goat marinated in garlic and ginner, slow cooked with cumin and star anise. green curry chicken done with tomatillos, cilantro and cumin. steak ticca and hunter's beef, sort of an indian-inreflected pastra pastrami, an invention of the chefs. brian for ten days cooked and served with homemade mustard sauce. what about your kids, do they feel american or indian or indian american? >> they're definitely indian american. they eat indian food. >> right. >> but if you give my son an option, he wants to go to takei bell. they speak, they do bollywood dancing, but they're not as into it as i am. i want my kids and all the kids to come in and feel that these are our traditions that we've got to continue. >> we have a bollywood eating contest coming up. who can tell me what a paniputi

is? >> like a little dpling with a hole in it and stuffed with potatoes and chick peas and then a spicy -- >> all right, on count of three, i'm going to give you 30 seconds and see who can eat the most. deejay z., you got the music ready? on the count of three. one, two, one, two, three, four! 30 seconds. most paniputis in 30 seconds. come on! eat them. i'm going to give you 30 more seconds because i think you guys are a little slow. ten, nine! >> eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! >> out of 20, you got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. 20 minus 7! she is the winner! ♪ >> i find houston to be probably the most accepting place for me. >> why?

>> i love it here. i love being indian in houston. it's not one of those towns that you say, oh, i want to live in houston. but once you come here, once you live here, you don't want to move out of here. you know, i always consider india as my motherland, but houston's my home. ♪ ♪ ♪

>> it's saturday night in houston, and at at acapulco ballroom, tonight is all about 15-year-old evelyn aranya. if you're a mexican or mexican american or anywhere in between and you've got a daughter turning 15, you'd better be throwing her a quince, or a quinceanera, to be precise. what is it? >> it's the becoming of a young lady. whenever they turn 15 years old. >> if you're of mexican heritage in houston, i gather you kind of have to have one if you've got a daughter, right? >> in houston, yes. >> in houston, yes. >> it is an honor to have a quinceanera and for your parents to be able to give you one. ♪ >> the quinceanera business is a

mul multimillion dollar-a-year industry around here. the competition is fierce. it is a big deal is what i'm saying, and the style and budget can vary enormously depending on means and ambition. friends, relatives and neighbors gather to eat, drink, dance, and acapulco owners are keeping a close eye on the action, making sure everything goes according to plan. who gets invited to these things? this is a lot of people. i don't have this many friends. >> friends and family. >> friends and family, and from the school, too. >> all right, so you have to invite all the girl's friends from school? do you have any kids? >> yeah. >> any girls? >> four girls. >> four girls. so they have these? >> all of them have had their quinceaneras, and a couple of them have had their sweet 16s. >> you had a quinceanera and a sweet 16? >> yeah. >> oh, my god! i was really happy about having a girl, but it's expensive! what do boys get? >> a soccer ball. >> that's cost-effective.

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♪ the way we think about houston, texas, today is very much stuck in the past. in the late '70s-early '80s, houston was the boom town of popular television and movie imagination -- oil, shipping, nasa and football combined to create a big-spending, big-haired quasi cowboys stereotype that to some extent still lives with us today, even if the reality is different. though the oil is not gone, a massive glut in the mid-'80s sent prices into free fall, more or less killing the city's oil industry. the resulting economic downturn and lower cost of livin made

houston, however improbably it might seem to you, you yankee trash, much more welcoming to people with less means, people getting away from bad situations, people from somewhere else. what that means is that now, houston, you know, houston is a place where minorities are now the majority. at the end of the war, jonathan trid escaped vietnam on a makeshift raft with his family. after serving in the united states marine corps and obtaining a master's degree in education, he became the principal of this school, lee senior high, the most ethnically diverse school in the city. what percentage of your student body english is not the first language? >> i would say about 80% of them. >> do those kids get sent here specifically, or is it just reflective of the community? >> oh, no, no, it's reflective of the community. by chance. >> 80%. >> in the city of houston and

the surround suburban area it's very well integrated. >> why? how did that happen? >> i think one of the main reasons is the strong economic base here. it's because of the ability for you to get a job and make a decent wage. it allowed for immigrants, families to come over and build a nest egg, to own their own home or go to a better neighborhood. it has to be a strong economically viable base for them to quickly overcome that poverty to make a life for themselves. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> all right, repeat after me -- positive affirmations -- today's a beautiful day. >> today's a beautiful day. >> i will work hard. >> i will work hard. >> i am important. >> i am important. >> repeat -- i will succeed. >> i will succeed. >> more than 40 languages are spoken among the 1,700 students here, many of them from conflict zones where the alternatives were stark -- leave quickly or die. often their first exposure to

the american educational system is here, esl, english as a second language class, where teacher gary reid, a 30-year veteran, does his very best to get them up to speed and ready for the next steps. >> you see these people? >> what did they do? >> all of these people right here, they came to houston from salvador, vietnam, iraq, syria, just like you. they came -- no money, no home. and what happened? yeah, they graduated. so, don't say, oh, i can't do it, i can't. you can do it. >> what part of the world are most kids coming from now? >> currently, it's central america. >> guatemala? >> guatemala, salvador, nicaragua. el salvador's the major one. >> in many cases, if you were to send these kids back, it's a death sentence. i mean, let's dual what it is. >> yes. >> other classes -- math, history -- taught in their own language or english? >> no, no. they're taught in english. >> so, this class is absolutely

essential. >> mm-hmm. >> now, we're working on personal introductions. who's brave enough to introduce themselves? >> hello. my name is romeri. >> hi, my name's mr. reid. nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> what do you do with your eyes? repeat, eye contact. >> eye contact. >> what about his hands? you can do that. grab it firm. firm handshake. it's a first impression. stand up. stand up, okay? this is side "a." you present to side "b." ready? one, two, three, go. >> hi, my name is -- >> nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you. >> good, good. so, you shake, look in the eye like that, okay? that's expected. girls, ana, in america, you can do it. it's okay to get a nice handshake. >> what happens if it doesn't work, if they don't have this? what's the future looking like if they don't acquire language skills? >> they become a third-class citizen here. >> what kind of work with you

getting? what are your opportunities? >> the market in major cities is always there -- landscaping, valet, car washes. but our students are very gifted. they are talented kids. they just need the opportunity to learn english and an opportunity for them to learn. these kids when they grow up, they will be american and when they have kids, they will pick up and defend this country, just like i expected to do and i expected my three boys to do, because i believe in it. i believe in the opportunity that it provides. i believe that no matter who poor you are, how uneducated you are when you first come to the united states, if you have the will to educate yourself, work hard at it, you can achieve. ♪ >> chicken sandwich and french fries, fruit salad, carton of milk. welcome to america, kids. i haven't had one of these in a long time. so, what country's everybody

from? >> i'm from africa. >> honduras. >> iraq. >> where in iraq? >> pakistan. >> and you've been here how long? >> one year. >> one year. >> your english is pretty good! very good. >> it took me at least two years just to be brave enough to open up, you know. they've impressed me very, very well. >> have you eaten african food? >> i've been to africa a lot. i love the food in ghana. the food in senegal is very, very nice. >> you've been to senegal? >> oh, yes. fantastic. your first day in school, was it frightening? >> i didn't know nobody here and nobody from my country. so, i feel scared. but step by step, i start to learn english and start to meet people. >> so, after school, when you graduate high school, what do you want to do next? >> i want to be a fashion designer and i want to go to college. i want to study.

>> what do you want to do? >> i want to go to college and i want to study medicine. i am between medicine and engineering. >> what do you want to do? >> i plan on playing soccer. >> soccer is not a plan, my friend. ♪ >> pearland is the quintessential sprawl of suburban americana, and more and more of these days, this is the qutessenti american family. jonathan, his salvadoran-born wife, sylvia, along with sister kim and husband ron, jonathan's mom nina and sylvia's mom, ayela. so, if you have a christmas, fourth of july, baig holiday, how many extended family, how many are coming over? [ laughter ] >> a lot. >> oh, okay. >> a lot. >> what's a lot, how many?

>> 40, 50? >> wow. >> 40, 50 people. >> i don't even see us as interracial until people point it out. >> it's like a typical texan family at this point. >> yeah. >> ayela cooks tomales from scratch. outside, fresh papusas are made on a hot griddle. nina makes a dish of jellyfish, shrimp and pork tossed with carrots, onion and peanuts dressed with the pungent vietnamese fish sauce and a rice-noodle dish from central vietnam made with pork ribs, shrimp and chilies. very mixed-up meal here. >> yeah. >> awesome. did you speak english when you arrived here? >> oh, not a word. >> not a word. >> i couldn't even say hi. so, i literally learned within a year because i had to. this one teacher, ms. spikes, just made me feel like i was the smartest little thing in the whole world. she built up my confidence that i could do anything. >> we learned how to speak spanish. first we learned how to speak

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it's hot in houston, so things move a little slower around here. maybe that explains this. ♪ i wake up in the morning, still half from last night ♪ ♪ ain't got no time to chill >> l.a. may have low riders, but houston has slab, its own car culture with its own accompanying sound, its own chop and skewed hip-hop style. ♪ ♪ >> this is pretty much like one of the most classic designs of a slab. it's the cadillac. see how we got the insides custom with the stitching and all that. so, this is a complete slab, you know. >> full reclining is --

>> full reclining. it's the laid-back thing. >> houston musical artist slim thug and his friends, bone and david, called some people to bring their cars over to mcgregor park in the southern part of the city. if you're going to do it, what do you have to have? what are the rules? >> candy paint. got to have these type of wheels, elbows, swingers. the grill is what makes it slab. that's what makes it complete. and the music. you know how you've got the pop trunk with the custom music. u've got to have that. ♪ ♪ >> you hit the block, it's not a bunch of dudes just standing up. it's a bunch of everything. >> you know, take the old and mix it with the new. >> right. these two pink cadillacs are awesome. that's a married couple, man and woman. and they have their kids with them. >> each trunk, they say something. that's your autograph. you see it coming and you see the car, the grill and you see

t that, it's like oh, whoever your neighbor, they're basically legends in the streets. >> are all of these like works in progress or are people constantly -- >> i think it's a work in progress. a slab, you're going to stay after doing it. >> going to change. >> they get expensive. a lot of these cars out here, they probably spent the bank roll on all of them. ♪ ♪ i wonder last year how many sweeps i rode ♪ >> you're not eating pizza hut in the back of that car, are you? >> really, you're banish people in the back seat of the car out here. >> you're shaking your head. why does everyone have a back seat? >> because you've got to lean. you've got to lean back. that means whoever's back here can't be long. >> i'm thinking about my lincoln, crocodile skin on the outside. would that be all right? >> pony. >> pony? >> from a horse. >> like palomino kind of a thing going? >> yes, sir. >> palomino. >> that will be fresh. that will be evil.

>> pay him no mind. >> ha ha. ♪ >> akers homes is a predominantly black community where many of the original slab pioneers come and also where you can find the legendary family-run burns bbq, a place not unfamiliar to me. i first came here 15 years ago with some long-lost travel program on a network far, far away. founder roy burns has passed on to the great open pit in the sky since last i was here, but his son and his grandchildren carry on the tradition of making some of the best east texas-style barbecue you can find around here. it's been a while. the last time i was here, your grandfather was here back then. >> you're in the right place for some barbecue, man. >> what do you do, ribs and brisket or -- >> i do all that. >> you do all that. >> all that. >> what is that? >> moonshine. >> "dukes of hazzard." boss hog. >> wow. i could drink a lot of that.

okay, that's going to work. the torpedo-size baked potato filled with cheddar cheese and chopped barbecue beef and homemade link sausage. slow-cooked pork ribs, big-ass beef ribs, and brisket. >> whoa. okay, i've got a baked potato. >> this baked potato is yours. >> it's marvelous. >> that thing is, like, gigantic. my mother always said don't eat anything bigger than your head, and that's about the size of a human head. >> that looks good, though. hold on. >> so, everybody born here? >> born and raised. >> born and raised. >> has the town changed at all? >> a lot. >> yeah, what way? >> you know, it was like a big smile town at first. now it's becoming like a real city, you know? >> is that good or bad? >> depending on what you do. >> good and bad, kind of. a lot of the stuff we was really into back in the day, these new kids or these people from out of town really ain't into. even the music. like, back in the day, houston was so independent. like, i was selling so many records out of the trunk that i

didn't want a major deal. ♪ you know what i'm sippin' ♪ boulevard got the candy paint dripping and i'm from ace town so you know what i'm sippin' ♪ >> is there a distinctive houston sound? >> very. you know, the whole culture from the cars to sip-and-serve and the music. >> what is sip and serve? >> it was codeine, but they mixed it with soda. >> why is that the choice here? >> you see how it's laid back. atlanta was turned up. out here, everything's slowed down because i guess we're a more laidback culture. >> so, at various points in your career, clearly somebody said, look, why don't you move out here? l.a.'s good, the money's out here, the deals are out here. but here you are. why stay? >> i tried to go to l.a., and the people out there are so thirsty to try to be a star that they're fake and they're crooked.

it's like, i don't want to be around those type of people. i want to be around good, genuine people. >> is houston a good place to live? >> yep, great place. cost of living is cheap. it stays hot or warm. it's never to where you've got to shovel your driveway. and the food is the greatest out here. and the black women, i don't care where you go, there ain't no better black women, and that's what it is. ♪ i'm from ace town so you know what i'm sippin' ♪ ♪ and i'm from ace town so you know what's trippin' ♪ ♪

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marie callender's ♪ it's a 90-minute drive south from houston to the town of palacios on the matagorda bay. and like a lot of the communities down here, the principal industry is fishing, shrimp in particular. it's also where beginning in the 1970s, as the vietnam war ground to its ig nam mouse conclusion, that thousands of vietnamese found new lives and a new home, to remain what would have been arrest, imprisonment, camps or worse. all you want is shrimp at this point?

>> yeah. several shrimp and fish. >> shrimp you take. >> yep, yep. big shrimp. >> big shrimp. >> small, we don't get the shrimp. >> you don't want it. >> no. >> shrimping has declined considerably since the 1980s, but the bay still supplies a live load for people like this man who made it out of vietnam on a tiny, handmade boat. they were lost in the south china sea for nine days before being rescued by a cargo ship. he became a united states citizen in 1990 and raised his family here in palacios. so, what year did you come here? how long have you been doing this? >> i've been -- i started shrimp in 1985. >> and what year did you arrive in this country? >> i left my country in 1979. >> how old were you when you got here? >> 21 years old. >> you were 21. so, why shrimp? how did you come to this business? >> because my cousin. >> cousin, okay. >> he was living here. and i work on the job first. but my cousin told me that it's very good for shrimpers.

make money more. ♪ >> back on dry land, vin's first stop is the point, the town's general store. it's owned and operated by pillars of the community, yen and brian tran, who separately came over from vietnam around the same time, met, married and raised three children here. >> visit to follow my dream. i came here with nothing, 17 years old. first job i ever work is washing dishes. so, my boss told me, say hey, you're a hard worker. you know, maybe one day you're going to be the boss. so, i have a thing in my mind. after i get married, i told my wife, open a restaurant. and she stopped me, said no, you're crazy! so, after all my kids went to college, they got a good job, i

mentioned again and she said, okay. >> aw, that's nice. convenience store, bait shop, quick stop for a meal, the point is in many ways typical in the way it's geared towards serving the immediate needs of its community -- food for vietnamese and food for mexicans. yen, brian, their kids, jennifer and kimberly, as well as cousin and son donnie, all proud citizens of the united states of america, by the way. >> you know, i really feel fortunate we live in this town and we have a lot of support. when we want to open the store, all my friends say i want to have the food. i know here we have to have mexican food. so i went and talked to the best mexican cook in town. >> this is the ship right here, good ship.

>> yes. >> marisala. >> the faheer is good, brisket, eye round, tripe and tended just like at home. seviche made from vin's fresh shrimp, and of course, tacos with eggs, jalapenos and tomatoes. the kids who grew up in this community -- >> these are the kids right here. >> these are the kids right here. >> what are they doing? >> i was born here in '76, so i'm a natural-born citizen, working with my dad, right-hand man, you know, shrimping, building boats, just kind of seeing what they went through, i definitely appreciate life, you know? >> jen here's a lawyer. my sister's an engineer. i'm in the medical field. so, there's still that, you know, your parents want you to have practical jobs. >> right. so, you came here what year? >> 1975. >> so you came over in the first -- >> yeah. i get on american ship and got the hell out of there. i come over here, no shoes.

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>> it's my dream. my dream i need to be boss, i need to have my land. >> for sure, we like the weather, because we don't have snow here. in summer, i know it's very hot here, but the food is plenty and people are nice. >> many of the more recent arrivals in houston come from places where life is unbelievably hard and often dangerous. many come from agrarian backgrounds, arriving here without the skill set needed to compete for jobs in an urban situation. planet forward, a non-profit urban farming program, provides refugees like gertrude and albert lombo access to land where they can make a living from the ground. so, here we are, middle of houston, a lush, fertile plot where eggplant, squash, string beans and other produce is grown to be sold at farmers' markets

and to restaurants around town. ♪ >> fellow congolese houston transplatnts transplants, chefs while not tending their crops, prepare a meal for the lombos and friends and fellow farmers. congolese but with a definite cajun touch, or is it the other way around? a slow-cooked stew of sausage, shrimp, dried mackerel and malabar spinach over fufu, then texan beef brochettes with bowlan and a ratatouille made from produce grown right here. what did you all think when you thought you would be resettled in texas? >> in my country, when we talk about texas, that is where many farmer is. >> really? and now do you feel welcome? >> yes. >> do you feel the community is happy here?

>> wonderful. >> the first challenge was the language. >> it >> but you all right speak how many languages? >> in congo, we have three languages. we have french, lynn gala and -- >> most americans struggle with one. it's okay. >> i'm a refugee from drc. >> what did you do? >> i did construction. >> and here? >> and after that, i decided to be a farmer. it was my dream. >> my dream, it was to get my own garn and when i harvest, i need to cook. >> where are you cooking now. >> how african will houston be

in 20 years? a lot, right? >> i want my mom, my sister. i want them to come. >> a lot of first generation and second generation african babies going to be happening here. it will look really different. you will hear the language at 7-11. no problem? >> no problem. >> in ten years? blap # blap #

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the crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd. two teams locked in struggle. take me out to the ball game, man. though the smell wafting from behind the bleachers is not hot dogs or popcorn or peanuts, it's a hell of a lot better, actually. >> it's like baseball. the first international game, believe it or not with the usa versus canada in 1844. >> i just read that. india is number one and usa is number two. >> i like the sport where you can aim at somebody's crotch.

that's awesome. i'm not going to try to explain the sport. and ask the lead president about the cricket club could tell him what it's all about. he knows, he was a big cricket star himself. >> who is winning? >> the first team scored 120 and they are chasing. >> they can't say because they haven't had an opportunity. >> this is why it didn't happen. we like winners in america. we want to know who is winning at all times. >> baseball is kind of slow to us. when we play. it's a slow game. >> it's all about the snacks. >> hot dogs? >> shutty hot dogs and the beer is even worse. >> now for a hot dog. oh, no. right.

now for tandoori chicken and spicy, tender and delicious curried goat and mar sal a. >> there fewer rules here? the caste system? you lose that right away? >> it takes a minute to get used to that culture shock. >> in the 90s, i was supposed to marry a girl from my caste, but it's not an issue. it has changed? >> i moved from singapore. >> that's not the too type. the stereotype is this is a

statele killed with right wing cowboy who is don't like foreigners. >> once we know, they are really friendly people. >> this is the best place to dream and achieve the dream. america is the land of opportunity and the best place to stay in the world. >> some people say make america great again. i say america was great all along. some of us just forgot why. it's great because your grandfather and my grandfather and just about everybody's damn grandfather or great grandfather, snuck, bought their way or was dragged on to a boat and one way or another allowed themselves eventually to dream.

you still can. tere is still room. in some places in america, apparently you are still welcome. welcome, stranger. this land is your land. >> oh, say can you see hoe diversity is in texas. complex with it. headlights is beaming. twilights is gleaming. broad stripes, right stars. racing stripes and you can end there there. the houston rockets on the hard wood, the finals they might get there. they brought the whips out and he posted that mac gregor. houston are go getters and they hustle very clever. with my amigos and my tia make tortillas and they can't deport us all. they make the tamales good and get mar sala readsala ready.

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