Portland Day 4 - Rose & VL Deli

Fresh from our donut haul from Doe Donuts,

we ventured further eastward on Powell Blvd...

Day 2 - Ha & VL

Aah, our second day in PDX and we were greeted with the gray skies and drizzle.

We made sure to get up early to we could get some soup before they ran out...

Po & Pho

[Update - This business closed in 2013 and is now something else]

After our unorthodox "dessert before lunch" we wanted to have lunch (still!)...

But first, some random photos of stuff I saw recently. Below, a lipgloss with a title that Prince himself would appreciate, "Sexy Motherpucker"!

And a product that I SO wish was sold in San Diego, but dammit all to hell, it isn't - the elusive Chocolate (Tsokolate) flavor of SkyFlakes crackers! TC brought the wrapper home from a friend who shared some recently. C from Canada had the Cheese flavor too!

I would love to try this cracker sandwich!

Anyhow, because we didn't want to drive all the way over to Pho Cow Calli (formerly known as Pho Hoa Calli several years ago, WTF is with that name change) we decided to try the new Vietnamese joint right next door to H Mart...

Mien Trung

This weekend we were craving something new...

It was high time to visit this place that I'd been hearing and reading about for years...

New favorite soup

I finally did it...

I tried something NEW at Asia Cafe...haha!

It was about time to get out of my rut and try a new dish here...

Portland Day 8 - Return to Ha & VL

Our vacation was nearly over...only a few days left in the rainy Pacific Northwest.

We normally don't go back to the same place, but we broke that rule here several times with repeat visits to Wunderland (post is forthcoming), An Xuyen Bakery and this unassuming soup place...

JaCiva's Chocolates - aka The LAST Oregon 2012 post!

And finally, the last damn post of our Oregon 2012 trip from last year...

Before we returned to San Diego, I wanted us to check out this neighborhood bakery and chocolate shop for some sweets...

It was also a few doors down from some frou frou pizza place we were curious about...

Da Nang

We interrupt the regularly scheduled Valentine's road trip post for a more recent (as in "today") post...

featuring a restaurant in City Heights (edging the southernmost border of Talmadge)...

I passed it by and had to double back and park on a side street. As you can see, the parking lot is pretty small and due to my extreme hatred of parallel parking, was avoided at all costs...

Return to Viking Soul

Although we'd been to the Good Food Here pod a few days ago with KD,

we wanted to try a savory lefse wrap rather than the sweet ones...

Cartopia

All that hiking at Mount Tabor and horsing around on the monkey bars and see saws made us hungry.

No, we did not go to Burgerville (this is the Hawthorne location) although we did go here three years ago.

Back in 2009, I vaguely remember seeing the Potato Champion cart. It was the only one (or maybe one of two or three) that was there. It stood out to me because it had trees, mountains, and a squirrel painted on it.

I thought this flyer was funny, the "Geek Olympathon"! That should be interesting. Seeing all of these wooden telephone poles plastered with flyers reminded me of a sketch in "Portlandia" where unseen people are angrily stapling over each other's flyers.

That episode was called "Flyer Wars"...