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Ping reborn: Pok Pok’s beloved izakaya spinoff returns Updated Dec 22, 2020; Posted Dec 17, 2020 Ping closed at the end of 2012 for a planned expansion and rebrand. It never reopened.LC- The Oregonian Facebook Share Amid the restaurant carnage of 2020, it can be hard to remember a time when restaurants shut for reasons beyond a raging pandemic. Yet that was the case with Ping, which closed for good at the end of 2012. Though never the smash hit of sister restaurant Pok Pok, Ping was a cult favorite, earning a GQ Best New Restaurant nod, The Oregonian’s Rising Star award in 2009 and eno...

Bar King & The Bakery at Bar King Announce Permanent Closure The live fire cooking restaurant, bar, and Asian-inspired bakery is closing its doors on January 2. By Katherine Chew Hamilton 12/15/2020 at 2:35pm Shaun King in the kitchen at Bar King. Bar King was chef Shaun King’s dream restaurant, one where large groups would gather around for live fire cooking and imbibe drinks made by his bartender wife Jamie, while business partner Katherine Benvenuti churned out miso walnut sticky buns and matcha gateau Basques at the Bakery at Bar King next door. The Kings moved from Las Vegas, where ...

>> anthony: right. andy -- andy ricker. the white guy who cooks awesome thai food. is it pretty spicy? put that in there. >> anthony: the pok pok in portland. restaurants in new york. andy's made a name for himself faithfully reproducing the cuisine of northern thailand. the good stuff that comes from places like here. rice country. chiang mai province. in this part of the world you live and die by the harvest. thai food is intensely regional, and northern thailand in particular has many distinctive features. this is a world of fresh,

>> andy: in about five seconds we're gonna go past a woman who has a cowboy hat on. >> anthony: the lady with the hat stands out among the dozens of street vendors across from the old city's north gate. >> andy: the best khao kha moo, or stewed pork leg, in the city, potentially none finer in thailand. >> anthony: yeah, are we goin' -- are we doin' that still? >> andy: well -- >> anthony: for years, she's been serving this -- khao kha moo, slowly stewed pork. >> andy: she cooks it in a master sauce. you know, the chinese master sauce where you cook it in the same thing, it probably goes back a...

We're drinking by the way? i haven't really paid attention. >> andy: this whiskey we're drinking here is actually rum. ♪ [ joe singing in thai ] >> anthony: this guy's good. >> andy: that's one of the great things about a place like this -- you'll never have to fill your own glass. [ joe singing in thai ] >> anthony: "that could be me someday," i'm thinkin'. things go just a little wrong, i