Environment
- To reduce the burden on landfills, our waste management programs includes recycling and composting.
- We encourage guests to reuse containers and bags. We offer a $.25 discount for each brought in for take-out.
- All of our printed materials are on recycled paper.
- We use natural soybean oil and work with a program that recycles our used oil for bio-diesel fuel.
- We have twice the required service done to maintain our grease traps and drains. This further insures our waste from these traps do not enter the public sewage system.
Food Source
Beef: Harris Ranch – certified natural, also minimally processed and contains no preservatives or artificial ingredients
Chicken: Open Nature – 100% Natural with no antibiotics, no nitrates or nitrites, and no added hormones
Turkey: Shelton Farms, Diestel, Whole Foods
Pork: JBS – safe and humane environment, all natural, no added ingredients, independent farmers from the Midwest, high quality hogs for culinary industry
Tofu: OTA Tofu
Seafood: ABC Seafood Market
Lamb: Australian Farms – raised naturally and sustainably
Scallops: Sea Trek Gold USA – farm raised
Halibut: Pacific Ocean sustainably wild caught
Salmon: Copper River Sockeye Salmon
Produce: Pacific Coast Fruit Company
Prawns: Ocean Pacific
Brown Rice: Lundberg USDA certified organic brown rice
- We use organic produce when its more sustainable. Non-certified organic produce are bamboo shoots, woodear, golden mushrooms, water chestnuts, carrots, Gai Lan, Chinese black mushrooms, Szechuan chili peppers, and red cabbage.
- Our dishes are made with less oil and less salt than conventional Chinese cooking.
- We never add MSG to any of our dishes or sauces. However, sauces that contain oyster sauce, plum sauce and hoisin sauce will have trace amounts of MSG. MSG, mono-sodium glutamate is a flavor enhancer that has been around for centuries. Originally in Asia, it was mainly derived from seaweed. However, today MSG is made mostly from bacterial fermentation.
Community
- We believe in supporting Portland’s economy by purchasing local goods and services from businesses such as ABC Seafood Market, China Foods, Longbottom Coffee, Oregon Flower Growers Association, Oregon Oil, Owen Roe Winery, Lemma Wine Company, Jinthay Trading Company, Ota Tofu, New System Laundry, Northwest Resource Credit Union, and many more.
- Over 20% of our profits since 2008 went directly to aid Oregon’s non-profits.
