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This week, our Where The Chefs Eat series turns to two amateur chefs turned television reality stars: Christine Ha and Alvin Schultz. Both living in Houston and Vietnamese by descent, they each snagged a spot on the TV reality show MasterChef. Schultz, who was featured on Season 2, is known...

Joe Dang, a Houston Vietnamese-American, was sitting at a table outside Lee's Sandwiches on Bellaire considering his lunch. "How's the sandwich?" I asked him. "The baguette is awesome, the best I've ever had," he said, inviting me to sit down. "And the lemonade is good, too. But the sandwich is...