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Shanghai's Best
Shanghai's Best (also known as Shanghai's Best Street Food) is a Chinese restaurant in Portland, Oregon. The business operates from the Pine Street Market, as of 2022, and has previously operated from Portland's Alder Street food cart pod and in Salem. Description Shanghai's Best specializes in shengjian mantou, a type of fried ''baozi'' (steamed buns). Pan-fried dumplings are made with pork, chicken, vegetarian, or vegan fillings. The vegetarian variety has egg, chives, and mung bean noodles, and the vegan version has tofu, mushrooms, carrot, and celery. The menu also includes steamed buns with barbecued pork or sweet red bean paste, as well as mooncakes. History Owner Lin Chen established the business in April 2018. In 2019, the Alder Street food cart pod closed for the development of Block 216 and the Ritz-Carlton, Portland. The Shanghai's Best food cart was initially placed into storage, then relocated to The Yard Food Park in Salem in October 2019. The business began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pine Street Market
Pine Street Market is a food hall in the United Carriage and Baggage Transfer Building in the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, curated by Feast Portland co-founder Mike Thelin. The building's renovation cost $5 million. The market opened in April 2016. Tenants Tenants in the space have included: * Brass Bar: coffees, teas * Common Law: European-Asian food, and alcoholic beverages * Kinboshi Ramen: Japanese ramen chain (formerly Marukin Ramen) * OP Wurst (by Olympia Provisions): frankfurters * Pollo Bravo: standing bar, tapas, rotisserie chicken * Shanghai's Best * Shalom Y'all: Israeli-inspired street-food * Tita's Juice Bar * Trifecta Annex: toast, bread, pizza * Wiz Bang Bar (by Salt & Straw): ice cream shop See also * James Beard Public Market, a nearby proposed public market * Portland Saturday Market The Portland Saturday Market is an outdoor arts and crafts market in Portland, Oregon. It is the largest continuously operated outdoor market in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chives
Chives, scientific name ''Allium schoenoprasum'', is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae that produces edible leaves and flowers. Their close relatives include the common onions, garlic, shallot, leek, scallion, and Chinese onion. A perennial plant, it is widespread in nature across much of Europe, Asia, and North America. ''A. schoenoprasum'' is the only species of ''Allium'' native to both the New and the Old Worlds.Ernest Small James Cullen, Sabina G. Knees, H. Suzanne Cubey (Editors) Chives are a commonly used herb and can be found in grocery stores or grown in home gardens. In culinary use, the green stalks ( scapes) and the unopened, immature flower buds are diced and used as an ingredient for omelettes, fish, potatoes, soups, and many other dishes. The edible flowers can be used in salads. Chives have insect-repelling properties that can be used in gardens to control pests. The plant provides a great deal of nectar for pollinators. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Chinese Restaurants
This is a list of notable Chinese restaurants. A Chinese restaurant is an establishment that serves Chinese cuisine outside China. Some have distinctive styles, as with American Chinese cuisine and Canadian Chinese cuisine. Most of them are in the Cantonese restaurant style. ''Chinese takeouts'' (United States and Canada) or ''Chinese takeaways'' (United Kingdom and Commonwealth) are also found either as components of eat-in establishments or as separate establishments, and serve a take-out version of Chinese cuisine. Chinese restaurants * Asia Town * Bianyifang * Café de Coral * Celeste Imperio * Chengdu Taste * China Coast * China Tang * CNHLS * Chinese Gourmet Express * Crystal Jade Culinary Concept Holdings * Din Tai Fung * Dough Zone * East Dawning * Fairwood * Flower Drum, Melbourne, Australia * Fuchun Teahouse, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China * Gado Gado, Portland, Oregon * Guo Li Zhuang * Hakkasan, London, U.K. * Heichinrou * Jing Fong * Joe's Shanghai * Joy H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Chinese Americans In Portland, Oregon
According to ''The Oregonian'', 18,000 (7.5 percent) of the Portland metropolitan area's 135,000 Asian/Pacific residents live along 82nd Avenue, in an area dubbed New Chinatown, as of 2012. Old Town Chinatown features the Lan Su Chinese Garden. Organizations There is a Portland chapter of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance. Restaurants Chinese restaurants have included Ambassador Restaurant and Lounge, Bing Mi, Chin's Kitchen, Duck House Chinese Restaurant, Fong Chong, Frank's Noodle House, Gado Gado, HK Cafe, House of Louie, Hunan Restaurant, Kenny's Noodle House, Master Kong, Ocean City Seafood Restaurant, The Pagoda, Republic Cafe and Ming Lounge, Shandong, Shanghai's Best, Stretch the Noodle, Wei Wei, Wong's King, and XLB. See also * Chinese American women's suffrage in Oregon * '' Da Tung and Xi'an Bao Bao'' * Ethnic groups in Portland, Oregon * Hispanics and Latinos in Portland, Oregon * History of Koreans in Portland, Oregon * History of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eater (website)
''Eater'' is a food website by Vox Media. It was co-founded by Lockhart Steele and Ben Leventhal in 2005, and originally focused on dining and nightlife in New York City. Eater launched a national site in 2009, and covered nearly 20 cities by 2012. Vox Media acquired ''Eater'', along with two others comprising the Curbed Network, in late 2013. In 2017, ''Eater'' had around 25 local sites in the United States, Canada, and England. The site has been recognized four times by the James Beard Foundation Awards. Description and history The food and dining site ''Eater'' is a brand of the digital media company Vox Media. It serves as a local restaurant guide, offering reviews as well as news about the restaurant industry. The property earns revenue via advertising, sometimes displaying content generated by Vox Creative. ''Eater'' was co-founded by Lockhart Steele and Ben Leventhal in July 2005, and initially focused on New York City's dining and nightlife scenes. The blog was one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland Mercury
''Portland Mercury'' is an alternative bi-weekly newspaper and media company founded in 2000 in Portland, Oregon. It has a sibling publication in Seattle, Washington, called '' The Stranger''. Contributors and staff Editor-in-chief: Wm. Steven Humphrey News editor: Alex Zielinski Arts and culture editor: Blair Stenvick News reporter: Isabella Garcia Publisher: Rob Thompson Current list retrieved on July 27, 2021. History The current ''Portland Mercury'' launched in June 2000. The paper describes their readership as "affluent urbanites in their 20s and 30s." Its long-running rivalry with ''Willamette Week'' began before its first issue was even printed when ''Willamette Week'' publisher Richard Meeker asked a Portland law firm to pay $10 to register the ''Mercury'' name with Oregon's Corporation Division, thus preventing it from being used for 120 days. ''Portland Mercury'' has hosted or co-hosted events over the years including political events like Brewhaha and Hecklevi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willamette Week
''Willamette Week'' (''WW'') is an alternative weekly newspaper and a website published in Portland, Oregon, United States, since 1974. It features reports on local news, politics, sports, business, and culture. History Early history ''Willamette Week'' was founded in 1974 by Ronald A. Buel, who served as its first publisher. It was later owned by the Eugene ''Register-Guard'', which sold it in the fall of 1983 to Richard H. Meeker and Mark Zusman,Nicholas, Jonathan (January 9, 1984). "Free, and fresh, weekly". ''The Oregonian'', p. B1. who took the positions of publisher and editor, respectively. Meeker had been one of the paper's first reporters, starting in 1974, and Zusman had joined the paper as a business writer in 1982. Meeker and Zusman formed City of Roses Newspaper Company to publish ''WW'' and a sister publication, ''Fresh Weekly'', a free guide to local arts and entertainment. ''WW'' had a paid circulation at that time, with about 12,000 subscribers. Post-mer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cart Blocks
Cart Blocks is a food cart pod in Portland, Oregon's Ankeny Square, in the United States. History The pod opened in 2021, following closure of the Alder Street food cart pod in 2019. The city hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to commemorate the pod's opening. The pod has also hosted events. In 2023, the site hosted a floral installation, as well as a dance party and ice cream social following the Pride Bike Ride. Businesses Businesses which have operated at the site include: * #1 Bento * Anna Thai Basil * Beijing House * Fernando's Alegria * Hua Li House * Kafta House * kBap Korean food * Shanghai's Best Shanghai's Best (also known as Shanghai's Best Street Food) is a Chinese restaurant in Portland, Oregon. The business operates from the Pine Street Market, as of 2022, and has previously operated from Portland's Alder Street food cart pod and in ... * Tito's Burritos * Villa Angel Taqueria References External links * * The Cart Blocks Comeback City of Portland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KPTV
KPTV (channel 12) is a television station in Portland, Oregon, United States. affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Vancouver, Washington–licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate KPDX (channel 49). Both stations share studios on NW Greenbrier Parkway in Beaverton, while KPTV's transmitter is located in the Sylvan-Highlands section of Portland. History Early years KPTV signed on the air on September 20, 1952, as Oregon's first television station. KPTV originally broadcast on channel 27, making it also the nation's first commercial television station to broadcast on the UHF band. (the first experimental UHF station was Bridgeport, Connecticut's KC2XAK on channel 24). The station was originally owned by Empire Coil. As Portland's only television station at the time, it carried programming from all four networks of the time: ABC, CBS, NBC and the DuMont Television Network. CBS programming was dropped from KPTV's schedule when Portland's first VHF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ritz-Carlton, Portland
The Ritz-Carlton, Portland is a Ritz-Carlton hotel in Block 216 in Portland, Oregon, United States. The hotel is Ritz-Carlton's first in the Pacific Northwest. Description The Ritz-Carlton operated hotel occupies one-third of the 35-story Block 216, on floors 8 to 18. The hotel has 251 rooms and access to an amenity floor, lounge, spa, and swimming pool on the 19th floor. The spa's petals design is inspired by the locally symbolic rose. The hotel also offers approximately 17,000 square feet space for events and meetings on a floor called Ascending Mount Hood. The 132 condominiums on the upper 15 floors range from , with 22 penthouse units on floors 32 to 35. Condos range in price from $1.1 million to $9 million. The hotel's plant-filled lobby, intended to replicate the Pacific Northwest's lush landscape, is called Forest Hall. The lobby bar and lounge Meadowrue is named after the Western meadow-rue, a plant native to the region. The bar serves breakfast foods and coffee by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Block 216
Block 216 is a high-rise building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. The 35-story building replaced the Alder Street food cart pod and parking lot between 9th and 10th avenues and Alder and Washington streets. At tall, it is Portland's fifth-tallest structure. Description and history Block 216 was designed by Portland-based architecture firm, GBD Architects and is the largest building by volume constructed in Portland since the U.S. Bancorp Tower. Walter Bowen / BPM Real Estate Group was the developer. The Alder food pod with more than a dozen vendors, Portland's largest, closed in June 2019. The groundbreaking ceremony was held on July 12, 2019. A grand opening was scheduled for August 15, 2023. Tenants Ritz-Carlton manages a hotel (the first in the Pacific Northwest), as well as condominium units in the building's upper floors. The lowest seven floors comprise of office space; one major tenant is the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, who will occupy 19,100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
