Baon Kainan
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- Filipino
- Filipino-American
| Baon Kainan | |
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| Closed | 2025 |
| Owner(s) | Ethan and Geri Leung |
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| Location | Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States |
| Website | baonkainan |
Baon Kainan was a Filipino restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. It garnered a positive reception, before closing in 2025.
The restaurant Baon Kainan served Filipino / Filipino-American[1] cuisine in Portland, Oregon. The business 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 used the tagline "Not your tita's cooking".[6][7] The restaurant's website said, "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 included adobo made with smoked tamari and chicken stock, ensaïmadas, as well as kare-kare served with French fries.[9] The business also served sisig with jackfruit and mushroom, Filipino spaghetti with banana ketchup tomato sauce, and calamansi cream puffs.[2] The brunch menu included pork belly tosilog with eggs and garlic rice, and ube bibingka was among dessert options.[10]
History
The restaurant was owned by spouses Ethan and Geri Leung.[11] It 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 was part of the Sobrang Sarap food tour.[13][14][15] It also hosted Balong as a pop-up serving breakfast sandwiches.[16] In 2025, Baon Kainan was among local Filipino establishments that participated in a fundraiser for victims of the Vancouver car attack.[17]
Baon Kainan ceased operations as a food cart in July 2025 and re‑opened under a new concept as Pamana at The Hoxton, Portland, in Old Town Chinatown, starting September 3, 2025.[18]
Reception
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)."[19] Michael Russell included the business in The Oregonian's overview of Portland's best new food carts of 2021.[20] Alex Frane included Baon Kainan in Thrillist's 2021 overview of Portland's "must-hit" restaurants.[21] Baon Kainan was named Cart of the Year by Portland Monthly in 2021.[22] 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.[23] Baon Kainan was also included in Eater Portland's 2025 lists of Portland's best brunch restaurants and best food carts.[24][25]
