| Baon Kainan | |
|---|---|
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| Restaurant information | |
| Owner(s) | Ethan and Geri Leung |
| Food type |
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| City | Portland |
| County | Multnomah |
| State | Oregon |
| Country | United States |
| Website | baonkainan |
Baon Kainan is a Filipino restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. It has garnered a positive reception.
The restaurant Baon Kainan serves Filipino / Filipino-American [1] cuisine in Portland, Oregon. The business has operated from a food cart on Alberta Street called Alberta Carts, [2] [3] and later on Couch Street in the north Portland part of the Kerns neighborhood. [4] [5] Baon Kainan has used the tagline "Not your tita's cooking". [6] [7] The restaurant's website says, "Our goal is to share our perspective on Filipino food through the lens of Filipino-Americans. Growing up predominantly in the U.S. and having a Filipino heritage makes our story unique but common to what second and third-generation Filipinos have experienced." [8]
The menu includes adobo made with smoked tamari and chicken stock, ensaïmadas, as well as kare-kare served with French fries. [9] The business has also served sisig with jackfruit and mushroom, Filipino spaghetti with banana ketchup tomato sauce, and calamansi cream puffs. [2] The brunch menu includes pork belly tosilog with eggs and garlic rice, and ube bibingka is among dessert options. [10]
The restaurant is owned by spouses Ethan and Geri Leung. [11] The business started as a pop-up in Seattle. [12] In 2021, the couple relocated to Portland and moved Baon Kainan to a lot at Metalwood Salvage on Northeast Prescott Street. [9]
Baon Kainan has been part of the Sobrang Sarap food tour. [13] [14] [15] It has also hosted a pop-up serving breakfast sandwiches. [16]
Andrea Damewood of Willamette Week wrote, "While there are a few stellar representations of Filipino cooking around town, Baon Kainan's casual and boundary-expanding take on the classics fills a slot that's gone unfilled in Portland (and likely the Pacific Northwest)." [17] Michael Russell included the business in The Oregonian 's overview of Portland's best new food carts of 2021. [18] Alex Frane included Baon Kainan in Thrillist's 2021 overview of Portland's "must-hit" restaurants. [19] Baon Kainan was named Cart of the Year by Portland Monthly in 2021. [20] The magazine's Katherine Chew Hamilton included the business in a 2022 list of twenty food carts that define the city. [5] In 2024, Nick Woo and Janey Wong included Baon Kainan in Eater Portland 's overview of the city's "most outstanding" food carts, [2] and The Infatuation's Krista Garcia also included the business in a list of Portland's best food carts. [21] Baon Kainan was also included in Eater Portland's 2025 list of Portland's best brunch restaurants. [22]
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