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[Dimsumdiva]

This new restaurent/store opened recently just across the street from Chinese Delicacy. We recently had lunch there. Really limited menu but...

they make their Chinese Sausage, Taiwanese Sweet Sausage, BBQ pork, beef shank, and Chinese bacon!!!

You can get simple meals consisting of rice, side vegetable, and meat to eat there or you can buy all meats to go. The sausages and BBQ pork are excellant! The sausages are vacuum sealed but unfrozen.

We purchased a package of Chinese sausage (pork, but they also have liver) and the Twawanese sweet sausage. Steamed the Chinese and fried the Taiwanese per the lady's instructiions and really enjoyed them. We also got a piece of the BBQ pork which was moist and very flavorful. Much better than most of the BBQ pork in the Chinese restaurants in this town.

For lunch I had the Taiwwanses Sweet Sausage with Jasmine rice and side vegetable (bok choy & corn in a two sectioned dish with a small bowl of dipping sauce for the choy). Bob ordered the Chicken & Chiese Sausage with Black Mushroom (also with rice & veg). This was freshly steamed and she warned us that it would take 20 min to get it. Bob loved it; I thought tha chicken was very tasty. She gave us samples of the BBQ pork and the beef shank. Tea is a Taiwanese tea, very delicious but certainly different from the use tea one gets in Chinesse restaurants (cost $1).

Menu

Starter: Turnip Cake (seasonal) 3.50

Entrees: all with steameed Jasmine Ricee, side vegetable
BBQ Poek 7.49
Chinese Sausage 7.99
Taiwanese Sweet Sausage 7.49
Beef Shank 7.99
Sticky Rice (jasmine not inclued) 6.99
Any Combination 7.99

Soup: Mushroom Soup with Porkstomach 4.99

Desserts: Sweet Tofu 2.00

Drinks: Fresh Soy Milk, Soft drinks, bottle water, Hot Tea all 1.00 each

BBQ Pork to go 8.29/lb

Specials:
Chicken & Chinses Sausage with Black mushroom 7.49
House Special Fried Rice (with you choice of BBQ pork, chicken, Taiwanese sausage, chinese sausage, tofu, black mushroom) 5.99
(She said you could put in as many choices as you want)
Mixed Vegetable Stir Fry (served with rice) 5.99
(She said that for 1.00, you can add any meat you like to this)

So far they have only been mentioned/advertised in the Chinese papers in town.

Hours: Tue- Sat 12-8pm
Sun 1-6P (for sellingg of meat & sausages, not serving meals)
Mon - closed

Iona

[Flynn]

Thanks for posting this. Will be going, pronto.

[WAfoodie]

We also got a piece of the BBQ pork which was moist and very flavorful. Much better than most of the BBQ pork in the Chinese restaurants in this town.

Is the five spice powder very detectable in the BBQ pork? It seems that a lot of Portland Chinese restaurants are heavy-handed with this spice.....

[Jill-O]

We also got a piece of the BBQ pork which was moist and very flavorful. Much better than most of the BBQ pork in the Chinese restaurants in this town.

Is the five spice powder very detectable in the BBQ pork? It seems that a lot of Portland Chinese restaurants are heavy-handed with this spice.....

So true, and I do not care for it that way, myself.

I am very excited about this place. WIll try to get there soon...

[ExtraMSG]

Glad someone finally went. I didn't get any response via twitter. From the outside I couldn't tell if it was bubble tea and sweets or what.

[eckitchen]

This new restaurent/store opened recently just across the street from Chinese Delicacy. We recently had lunch there. Really limited menu but...

they make their Chinese Sausage, Taiwanese Sweet Sausage, BBQ pork, beef shank, and Chinese bacon!!!

You can get simple meals consisting of rice, side vegetable, and meat to eat there or you can buy all meats to go. The sausages and BBQ pork are excellant! The sausages are vacuum sealed but unfrozen.

We purchased a package of Chinese sausage (pork, but they also have liver) and the Twawanese sweet sausage. Steamed the Chinese and fried the Taiwanese per the lady's instructiions and really enjoyed them. We also got a piece of the BBQ pork which was moist and very flavorful. Much better than most of the BBQ pork in the Chinese restaurants in this town.

For lunch I had the Taiwwanses Sweet Sausage with Jasmine rice and side vegetable (bok choy & corn in a two sectioned dish with a small bowl of dipping sauce for the choy). Bob ordered the Chicken & Chiese Sausage with Black Mushroom (also with rice & veg). This was freshly steamed and she warned us that it would take 20 min to get it. Bob loved it; I thought tha chicken was very tasty. She gave us samples of the BBQ pork and the beef shank. Tea is a Taiwanese tea, very delicious but certainly different from the use tea one gets in Chinesse restaurants (cost $1).

Menu

Starter: Turnip Cake (seasonal) 3.50

Entrees: all with steameed Jasmine Ricee, side vegetable
BBQ Poek 7.49
Chinese Sausage 7.99
Taiwanese Sweet Sausage 7.49
Beef Shank 7.99
Sticky Rice (jasmine not inclued) 6.99
Any Combination 7.99

Soup: Mushroom Soup with Porkstomach 4.99

Desserts: Sweet Tofu 2.00

Drinks: Fresh Soy Milk, Soft drinks, bottle water, Hot Tea all 1.00 each

BBQ Pork to go 8.29/lb

Specials:
Chicken & Chinses Sausage with Black mushroom 7.49
House Special Fried Rice (with you choice of BBQ pork, chicken, Taiwanese sausage, chinese sausage, tofu, black mushroom) 5.99
(She said you could put in as many choices as you want)
Mixed Vegetable Stir Fry (served with rice) 5.99
(She said that for 1.00, you can add any meat you like to this)

So far they have only been mentioned/advertised in the Chinese papers in town.

Hours: Tue- Sat 12-8pm
Sun 1-6P (for sellingg of meat & sausages, not serving meals)
Mon - closed

Iona

Hi Iona,

It's James here, the owner of EC Kitchen.

First of all, I would like to say a big thank you for your very positive comments about our food! I am glad that you enjoyed your visit.

Secondly, as you pointed out, the menu is somehow limited at the moment. However, this was a concious decision. Let me explain...With very close links to Hong Kong and Taiwan (both are regarded as food heaven among the Chinese), I LOVE Chinese food myself. However, having been in Portland for a few years, I could hardly find any Chinese restaurants that remind me of 'home food', which is a real shame! My kids always ask me when we visit families in Hong Kong or Taiwan about why they can't taste such delicious foods back in Portland. Therefore, I put lots of effort into researching my family recipes about Chinese foods at first just to satisfy my kids! The idea of EC Kitchen then started to grow as an idea to introduce truely Chinese foods to the Portland community! Some of the key ingredients are not available in Portland, but I want to make sure that I can use local produce in Portland to make authentic Chinese foods (with a little twist!). That is why the menu is limited at the moment as I wouldn't want to serve anything that I would consider to be perfect!

I am working on other tasty dishes - so keep coming back for surprises!! All the feedback would be very much appreciated!!

Say hi next time when you are in! I would like EC Kitchen to become a hub for Chinese food lovers to enjoy meals in the restaurant as well as sharing some cooking tips. As you mentioned we also have a range of foods that you can take home and cook yourself for various occasions!!

James

[Egads]

Top notch reply, James. Makes me even more excited to visit your restaurant--the sooner the better!

[nervousxtian]

Is this like 2 houses north from Chinese Delicacy? In the white house? That's my old hood in my teens, don't get down there much but that menu and idea intrigues me.

[ExtraMSG]

I think it's one house north. It's right across the small street on the same side of 82nd.

http://g.co/maps/esntr

[Prone to Hyperbole]

Great write up in yesterday's WW. But it's their own site that has me DROOLING to go!! I'm off Sunday, so while they don't serve meals on Sundays, I will be going anyway to buy all the meats to go to try at home. And hopefully to meet the owner! James sounds like the best case scenario as a truly invested biz owner. I already with him and his family the best before even trying the food, which I'm sure will be just plain stellar!
http://www.wweek.com...ec_kitchen.html

[Jill-O]

I almost went yesterday...it's on my radar and close to where I hang my hat these days...

[Prone to Hyperbole]

Went Sunday and bought one of most everything in the case, plus a soy milk to go. Am just getting around to preparing the items in the next day or two. Got the beef shank, all 3 sausages, the sticky rice leaf wrap pork goody bag thingy, and I think more. Got the entire low down from the amazingly nice owner couple. How to prep each item, etc. Actually probably going there for lunch tomorrow, but will be preparing the items I got for lunches to last the rest of the week as well. Details to follow. But wanted to say, damn they're nice! Really helpful, committed to quality, and every thing is clean and affordable.

[ExtraMSG]

Finally got a chance to try EC Kitchen since they're not open on Mondays and only have a limited menu on Sundays.



Small dining area.



Gratuitous bacon photo.



We started with some of their chicken wings, which have pleasantly un-sweet marinade that deeply penetrates the flesh. I enjoyed them and they were well-cooked. I would have enjoyed them more if they were then deep-fried and crispy, the skin being rather flaccid. But they were tasty still.



We also got an order of their shrimp cakes. I liked the texture on these pretty well. It was more like the texture of breakfast sausage or a slightly chewy burger patty. We ate them with a couple of the bottled sauces on the table.



And just to make sure we over-ordered, we got the lotus wrapped rice as well. The rice had chopped vegetables, mushrooms, and egg inside and nice sticky texture. The lotus imparted a lot of flavor.



Of course, we had to get sausage, since that's their specialty. We got a combo plate with their Taiwanese sausage and their regular Chinese sausage. One thing I love about their entrees is they're sized for one person and come with choy and corn on the side. You can actually get a complete meal for one person without a ton of leftovers if you want. I wish every Chinese restaurant did this -- or at least had this option. I'm not that experienced with Chinese sausages, never having searched out anything special nor eating it except on rare occasions. But I thought both were quite nice, not overly sweet, with a texture that reminded me of kielbasa. They gave us a taste of their spicy sausage that they're working on as well. It wasn't very spicy, but I liked how the extra piquancy played against the sweetness.



We also ordered their fried rice which came out covered in a glass bowl with the same vegetable sides as the sausages. It was earthy, lightly sweet, and punctuated with sausage, BBQ pork, and mushrooms. My wife thought it was the same as the lotus rice, but I think she has a hard time with soy flavors. I thought the two were fairly different, given the lotus, vegetables, and egg in the one, and the meats in the other. Plus the lotus rice was much more moist.



They make tofu and soy milk in-house, so we finished with some sweet tofu. The portions are huge despite only being $2 each. We mistakenly got two, one bean and one ginger. They brought out extra ginger syrup which I was able to pour onto my tofu to make it sweeter. It was good quality, nice clean flavor and creamy texture.



It's close to our house and we'll be back. I will note that most items were under-seasoned, but meant to be eaten with soy sauce. The soy chicken was not under-seasoned.

Pics of the retail offerings here:

[vrunka]

Thanks for the report. I've been eager to try this place for some time and now I am even more eager.

Do you think this place is too small for a PF get-together?

[ExtraMSG]

They probably max at 12 ppl or so, but they're slow enough it might work.

[Prone to Hyperbole]

Dude, MSG.... I'd spaced how FANTASTIC a job you do at full coverage with pro photos. You've been so busy with the new biz that there's often more quick notes implying further reporting at a future date, and phone pics when possible. This is the bomb! I am a regular there already, but if I wasn't, I'd be there in the morning after seeing this and the slide show. Hell, I'll probably go anyway now. Mmmmmm. Thanks for this. They could use the support I think.

As a side note, I suggest that anyone having to make a trek to get there, consider what I do. Make a loop: EC for lunch and to go items for the week, then pop down over 82nd and hit JC for rice noodles, then, in my case, up 82nd to powell to head back in to town stopping by ABC for seafood and veggies. Snow pea tips there lately have been as fresh as possible and DIRT cheap.