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Bing Mi
Bing Mi (sometimes stylized as Bing Mi!) is a Chinese restaurant in Portland, Oregon. The original food cart specialized in the Chinese street food jianbing. The brick and mortar Bing Mi Dumpling and Noodle Bar opened in 2022 and focuses on Northern Chinese noodles and dumplings. The food cart closed in December 2023. Description and history Owners Tim Harris and Alisa and Neal Grandy began operating Bing Mi at the Alder Street food cart pod in 2014. Jacky (or Jackie) Ren has also been credited as a co-owner. The food cart serves many variations of jianbing, and was Portland's only restaurant offering the Chinese street food at the time. Optional ingredients include bacon, roast duck, and spam. In 2017, owners confirmed plans to open a second food cart in southeast Portland. Andrew Zimmern visited Bing Mi for an episode of the Food Network's '' The Zimmern List''. In 2020, the business donated proceeds to people affected by local wildfires and partnered with Adopt a Restau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Food Cart
A food cart is a mobile kitchen set up on the street to prepare and sell street food to passers-by. Food carts are often found in cities worldwide selling food of every kind. Food carts come in two basic styles. One allows the vendor to sit or stand inside and serve food through a window. In the other, the vendor stands next to the cart, while all the room in the cart is used for storage and to house the cooking machinery, usually a grilling surface. The cart style is determined principally by the type of food. Food carts are different from food trucks because they do not travel under their own power. Some food carts are towed by another vehicle, while some are pushed by a human or animal. History The first food carts probably came into being at the time of the early Greek and Roman civilizations with traders converting old hand-carts and smaller animal-drawn carts into mobile trading units. Carts have the distinct advantage of mobility, should a location not be productive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
