E-san Thai Cuisine is a Thai restaurant with multiple locations in the

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, in the United States.

History and locations

There was a stationary food cart in

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, as of 2015. The Vancouver had 36 food options with beef, chicken, pork, or tofu. The menu included Pad See Ew, Gang Garee, and Pad Kee Mao. The food pod in

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was slated to have an E-san cart, as of 2015. There was also a food cart at the Tidbit Food Farm and Garden food pod at the intersection of Southeast 28th Avenue and Division Street. The pod opened in 2014 closed in 2017.

BG's Food Cartel BG's Food Cartel (sometimes BG Food Cartel) is a food cart pod near The Round (Beaverton, Oregon), The Round in Beaverton, Oregon, United States. The pod opened as Beaverton's first in 2018. Business have included: * Avenue Saint Charles * Burg ...

at The Round, a food pod in

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, had two E-San carts, as of 2018. The restaurant in

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's Haseltine Building closed in January 2021, during the

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. The restaurant's January 9 announcement read, "We want to thank our past crew members and especially our loyal customers for supporting E-San in our 22 years of being open. We are devastated to see it go, but also extremely grateful for the connections and experiences it has brought us as a family business." File:E-San Thai at SW 10th between Washington and Alder (2013).jpg, Menu at the Alder Street food cart pod, 2013 File:Southeast Portland, Oregon (February 7, 2021) - 056.jpg, Southeast Portland restaurant, 2021

Reception

In 2016 and 2017, E-san was a runner-up in the Best Pad Thai category in ''

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'' annual readers' poll.

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* {{Restaurants in Portland, Oregon Thai restaurants in Portland, Oregon Food carts in Portland, Oregon Thai restaurants in Oregon Thai restaurants in Washington (state) Restaurant chains in the United States

History and locations

Reception

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