Sauteed Green Beans…

Ever have a dish so delightfully scrumptious that you could eat it ’till your entrails ruptured? If you’re looking for one, try the sauteed green beans (#911) at Legin Chinese Restaurant on 82nd Avenue in SE Portland. You will not be disappointed even if you sway toward the more carnivorous end of the sustinence spectrum. Better yet, enjoy it in the restaurant’s Phoenix Lounge where you can enjoy Karaoke in your east asian language of choice!

82nd Ave. is hands down the best, most genuine, street in Portland. It does not try to hide what it is; unlike ‘hip’-pocritical Hawthorne, that – while being saturated with flyers describing the leftist cause and the evils of capitalism – is probably the most commercial street in the city; bent on cashing in on stupid folks’ desire to be different. Many folks, hipsters primarily, avoid 82nd because of the used car lots, strip malls, sex shops and prostitutes… things Ptown immigrants (myself included) originally moved to Portland to avoid. Every city has a street like “the Av”. Many cities have entire sectors of similar character. Portland needs the Av to provide all the necessities/vices that city residents require, but don’t want to admit they require–things/services that “pdx proper” folks do not want cluttering up their charming neighborhoods of high repute. The Av is where real life happens, as opposed to the quaint conjoured up idealizations of it that people try to live up to in their homes.

So give the the Av a chance — have some green beens and a Scotch, enjoy some Hmong Karaoke, grab some porn and live a little!