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You No Longer Have to Drive Far to Get Japanese Convenience Store-Style Sandwiches In Portland. We Put Two to the Test.

At the end of 2018, Giraffe Goods, from Biwa alums Gabe Rosen and Kana Hinohara Hanson, began selling plastic-wrapped egg salad and pork katsu out of a little space inside industrial eastside merchant Cargo. Then, in February, Tokyo Sando, from chef Taiki Nakajima and his wife, Andrea, opened in the food cart pod at Southwest 4th Avenue and Hall Street.

Holiday Gift Shopping at Portland’s Specialty Grocers

Luckily, Portland is overflowing with markets full of hard-to-find items sure to impress your hardest-to-please friends and family. With the holidays on the horizon, we went gift shopping at some of the city’s best specialty grocers. Here’s what we found.

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