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Life is but a Picnic: Portland’s Picnic House

by stacy

When did you last get a chance to go on a picnic? Dress up in your fine Sunday clothes, perhaps you and your Significant Other find a nice grassy knoll to enjoy your well prepared meal. Unfortunately, in Oregon this is a luxury that we can seldom afford, unless you like rainy picnics and soggy sandwiches. Here’s where Portland’s Picnic House comes to the rescue.

Portland’s Picnic House is a restaurant inspired by the concept of having a picnic any day of the year. Their restaurant has been designed to replicate a picnic setting indoors to really give you the feel of enjoying your food anywhere you go. To further inset the picnic feel, their menu has been designed around the concept of delicious gourmet food that you can really take with you and enjoy anywhere, be it at your desk, outside, in their restaurant, or where ever.

So who better to deliver picnic foods than your very own bicycle food delivery service in Portland, Portland Pedal Power. Picnic House has chosen to team up with us to bring you delicious, enjoy everywhere foods, for your next big event, meeting, or any other catered event where you really want to wow people. So check out Picnic House’s menu on our website, or if you’re in the area stop in and get a ray of sunshine from the Portland Picnic House on Southwest Salmon downtown.

But don’t just take our word for it. Check out this cool video that our new video man Brook made for the Picnic House, and Portland Pedal Power. Expect more of these awesome videos from Brook too!

Picnic House from Portland Pedal Power on Vimeo.

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Meet the Riders: Fitz!

by stacy

Dan Fitz, long time PPP rider and mechanic, shares some of the most intimate details of his life here with you in this short interview we conducted with him. We want you to know just who it is riding for your favorite food delivery service in Portland and just who is going to show up knocking at your door!

So without further ado, enjoy a Portland moment with Fitz!

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PPP now delivers dumplings from “The Dump Truck!”

by stacy

When thinking about Chinese food, there are few select favorite things that often come to mind; fried rice, sweet and sour chicken, and dumplings. DUMPLINGS! Sorry, I just had to say it again and more exaggerated than the rest because we LOVE dumplings! So its fitting that the greatest food delivery service Portland has ever seen, now partners with that which we all hold so close to our hearts, our little dumplings! If you’re a dumpling fan like we are, you’re going to want to check out “The Dump Truck“!

Julia and Reid were both living and working in Beijing when they met in 2007. They were both huge dumpling fans, and Julia had developed a special connection to a man named Ma, who owned a dumpling restaurant near her apartment. Julia ate almost every meal there and eventually grew so close with Mr Ma that he showed her the secrets of making perfect dumplings.

When they left Beijing and came to Portland, Julia missed dumplings so much that they would often make them for dinner and sharing them with friends. Serendipitously one night, their friend Scott Simon, owner of the Karaoke bar, Voicebox, tried them and insisted they be added to his menu. Julia spent the next year making dumplings for Voicebox and crafting unique dumpling and sauce creations. She expanded her repertoire well beyond classic Chinese dumplings, experimenting with delicious and ridiculous variations, such as Thanksgiving Dinner dumplings, Chicken Wing dumplings and Apple Pie Dumplings. By the end of that first year, Reid and Julia could hardly keep up and decided to open a food cart to bring their dumplings to more Portlanders.

The Dump Truck’s dumplings have been attracting attention and Reid and Julia’s creations have been fortunate enough to be featured on Unique Eats, Eat Street, Food Paradise, and in SF Weekly, Toronto Star, Edmonton Journal, 饮食男女, and the Portland Chinese Times.

The Dump Truck has been going strong since 2010, but we still serve the same, great flavors Julia created with the inspiration of Mr Ma back in Beijing.

To order some Dump Truck dumplings, order online now at the Portland Pedal Power website! For more information on great vendors and Portland events, follow our blog or check us out on Facebook!

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