Versailles — Vietnamese New Orleans

Versailles, in New Orleans East, is home to the largest Vietnamese community outside Vietnam's own diaspora hubs — families who arrived as refugees in 1975 and built their own Catholic parish, market, and commercial strip on the edge of swamp. The Saturday morning market on Alcee Fortier runs before dawn, with vendors speaking Vietnamese, selling herbs, live crawfish, and bun bo Hue. It's the least-visited and most-alive immigrant neighborhood in the city.