The Best Restaurants to Eat and Drink Around the Buckman Neighborhood in Portland, Oregon | Eater Portland

"Nong’s Khao Man Gai is one of Portland’s foundational Thai businesses, whose SE Ankeny location became the first sit-down version of Poonsukwattana’s original food carts in 2014. Since 2009, first-time visitors to Portland have flocked to Nong’s for the namesake chicken and rice dish. A simple, homey staple of Thai cuisine, the poached chicken gets topped over a bed of aromatic rice and served alongside a zingy soybean dipping sauce, plus a Chinese winter squash soup made with the poaching liquid. This homey comfort has been the center of the restaurant and has hardly strayed from its “one dish and do-it-well” mentality, apart from vegetarian-friendly, soup, and peanut sauce versions of the dish. If you’re a regular of Nong’s, however, try the khao kha muu to change things up with this braised pork and rice plate, smothered in an aromatic gravy and balanced with pickled mustard greens." - Katrina Yentch