Great Food and Conversation on Division Street

I organized my Exploring Portland group to go to some coffee/food spots along Division St SE. We started at StumpTown Coffee's original site where they roast their own beans (see picture) and then walked down to Pok Pok, an award winning Thai Restaurant, 3226 SE Division, that started out as just a take-out place (see Menu), and then dessert at Pix Patisserie, 3402 SE Division.

Boston ivy on a fence along Division St.

We started with perfect chicken wings, Ike's Vietnamese Fish Sauce Wings.

Green Papaya salad has quite a kick! Made with long, super thin sticks of green papaya, mixed with tomatoes, long beans, tamarind, fish sauce, garlic, Thai chiles, lime and palm sugar with cabbage leaves to help cool the heat.

The soup, Khao Soi Kai was our favorite.

Northern Thai mild curry noodle soup made with a secret curry paste recipe, natural chicken on the bone and house-pressed fresh coconut milk. Served with pickled mustard greens, shallots, crispy yellow noodles and roasted chili paste.

Cute little basket filled with sticky jasmine rice.

Yam Kahi Dao fried egg salad was a hit. A salad of crispy fried eggs, Thai chilies, Chinese celery, onions and carrot with lime, palm sugar and fish sauce dressing.

Desserts and candy choices at Pix Patisserie, 3402 SE Division, were so many we nearly couldn't make a selection, but of course, we eventually did.









Amelie -- Winner of the Patis France Chocolate Competition! Orange vanilla creme brulee sits atop a glazed chocolate mousse with caramelized hazelnuts, praline crisp, and Cointreau genoise. (Sue Trotter and I selected this delicious dessert.)


Linda Stern picked Ichabod Creme. It looked like a chocolate hummingbird nest. The picture doesn't do it justice. The description: pumpkins creme brulee with salted caramel, a chocolate nest and spiced candied pecans.


Incognito -- Cheesecake gone wild! Lemon mousse, cheesecake, ginger streusel, raspberries,
and candied lemon. (Julie Skinner's choice.)