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Abdullah “Max” Tukaemah and his husband, AJ Caudillo, were already on the road from Austin to Laredo when a weather alert popped up on their phones. TORNADO WARNING, it said, in ominous capital letters. The bed of their Toyota pickup truck was packed with rice, noodles, sauces, and herbs when the rain began to fall so hard they couldn’t see the cars in front of them. The six-hundred-mile trip from Laredo to Austin and back again had become routine for the owners of Kaitodthai—the only Thai restaurant of its kind in Laredo. It’s not like you can find lemongrass or galangal at H-E-B—Tukaemah has looked. “Not even H-E-B plus!” he says. The duo pulled off the freeway and found shelter in a Target before spending the night in…
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