At Maypop, a Chaat Salad Gets Southern Touches

At New Orleans' Maypop, Michael Gulotta explores the flavors and dishes of India, China, Vietnam and other Asian countries by way of Southern ingredients, yielding options like cured snapper with fermented black beans and mirliton, or Lamian-style noodles with blue crab. Another dish, the chaat salad, takes the main components of chaat, the Indian street snack—crunchy textures, vegetables, a variety of sauces—and presents it as a salad. Spicy ...