Though there are some prior examples of cheesy Tater Tot recipes (one, submitted to Taste of Home’s Quick Cooking in 2003 by a reader in Tennessee, involves four different dairy products and a crushed-potato-chip topping), the first mention of proper Tater Tot nachos in any media was in 2006, with the opening Oaks Bottom Public House in Sellwood. The man responsible: Jim Parker, a prolific publican and former journalist who opened the pub with New Old Lompoc owner Jerry Fechter.
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Everything’s better on banh mi
Ng says he started receiving orders from non-Asian restaurants in the early 2000s, mostly for Franco-Vietnamese “mini-baguettes,” best known in the United States as the foundation of bánh mì, the sandwich that shares their name. An Xuyen now supplies custom products to a number of customers, including hamburger buns to Foster Burger, pan bread to Sen Yai and bun dough to Steamers Asian Street Bistro, but the baguette remains a favorite.
An Xuyen’s Southeast Asian breads are the foundation of some of Portland’s best sandwiches