Category: Food Carts

Food carts are part of the culture of Portland and an important element of the eating and drinking that goes on in the city. They are found throughout the city both as individual carts and grouped together in pods.

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Chaat Wallah Cart to Join Upright Brewing in Cully

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Egg Bhurji, one of the sandwiches planned for the menu at Chaat Wallah’s cart coming to Cully. Photo credit: Chaat Wallah.

I was wandering around the internet this morning and landed on Chaat Wallah’s website. Chaat Wallah is a project from Deepak Saxena and the DesiPDX folks that serves “fun fusion reinterpretations of Indian street food.” In small type toward the bottom of the website is written “coming to Cully in 2022.” Of course my curiosity was piqued.

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Taiki Nakajima of Tokyo Sando Featured on Munchies

I only recently came across this great video produced by Munchies (the food vertical for Vice) featuring Taiki Nakajima, the person behind Portland’s beloved Tokyo Sando food truck fame. He has had a lot of interesting experiences around the world, loves making Japanese-style sandwiches, and opened his truck in Portland because he feels the city values small businesses.

He also has hosted a number of pop-ups at his truck, but it closed until 2022 because of some things he needs to take care of in Japan.

“I want to make people happy—that’s why I’m making sandwiches.”