Houston Family visiting us in Toronto, what foods can we offer without embarrassing ourselves?

Background: I am from Toronto Canada, and my family from Houston Texas just arrived at my home two days ago. I'm responsibel for showing my Texan family around Ontario. The first thign I noticed is that the only thing they care about is food….they want to visit all our super markets, resturants, beer stores and local breweries. I tried showing them museums, historical sites, city hall, water parks, beaches, etc… but they didn't care for any of it…all they did was sit on a bench and look at yelp reviews of restaurants, wineries, etc…

We went to an average Cantonese/Hong Kong style food court (very cheap food), they loved it…they said it was closes thing they've had in over 5 years to food courts in Hong Kong. We took them to a run-of-the-mill peruvian restaurant, and yemen resturant, and it blew their socks away again.

I already know Houston has the BEST styles of BBQ, Houston has the BEST Vietnamese food, and Houston has the BEST TexMex and Mexican food, so no way will I try to embarrass myself by taking to Toronto versions of those. You can't beat texas in these domains.

So my question is, for people who love food in houston, are there particular styles of food that you don't get much of? Maybe those are they styles of restaurants that I shoudl try to bring my Houston family too? How are cuisines like Carribean food, Korean food, Pakistani food, etc… in Houston?

Any recommendations will be great, thank you!

(Note, i went to houston once before fora couple of days, you guys have such amazing texmex food….love you guys, i'm returning again this christmas holiday, you guys are the best)

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