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by Janey Wong • Feb 22, 2021 at 10:00 am Bartender Katrine Tawfik pours a fresh bubble tea cocktail. Janey Wong Buddies since middle school, Brian Jiang and Neil Chan opened Buddy’s Lounge in 2018, only to spend most of last year shut down. Chan cut his teeth working for his family’s restaurant, the iconic Hung Far Low, and when Jiang grew tired of his banking day job of over a decade, they decided to merge their talents. Jiang’s tea know-how came from his ownership of an undisclosed bubble tea franchise in town. Fun game if you have a discernin...

ON THE SIDEWALKS at NW 4th and Couch Thursday night, September 2, Old Town's future gathered to welcome home a piece of its bawdy past. The famed Hung Far Low sign was returning after a two-year banishment, and white-haired Chinese men were gawking upward alongside young white kids. Traditional lion dancers leapt around for the cameras. Meanwhile, just beyond the railing at Ping, Pearl denizens clinked cocktail glasses. Bruce Wong, a cheerful 79-year-old whose grandfather erected the sign maybe in 1928, was the one who spoke with reporters after the spectacle. But it was renowned chef Kurt Hu...

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...