Cultural Center in Hillsboro

"The park is huge, and its varied attractions include the world-renowned Japanese Garden, one of the most beautiful and largest gardens of its kind in countries other than Japan. The International Rose Test Garden, founded in 1917, features 10,000 plants maintained by the city, all in manicured displays."

"This year-round wonder taking up an entire city block houses an authentic Ming Dynasty style garden built by Suzhou artisans. Lan Su Chinese Garden offers a peaceful escape in Portland's historic Chinatown district."

"This museum serves as a focal point for the preservation and sharing of the history and culture of the Japanese American community in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood."

"Japanese American history & cultural museum in Portland's Old Town. Featuring the permanent exhibit, “Reflections of an American Community,” & rotating exhibits"

"Explore the rich and diverse part of Chinatown in Portland at the Portland Chinatown Museum!. With photographs, art displays, and two new exhibitions opening within the coming months that explore the rich history within the Chinatown concept, this amazingly diverse and extremely welcoming look into the modern culture is certainly one of the best museums in Portland. Two new exhibits are opening up in October and December, allowing you to delve even further into the history of Chinatown!"

"The Portland Chinatown Museum (PCM) is Oregon’s first museum about Chinese American history, art, and culture. Opened to the public in December 2018 in an historic building at NW Third Avenue and Davis Street, the museum honors Portland Chinatown’s past, celebrates its present, and is helping to create its future. You can visit Thursday-Sunday from 11 a.m.-4 p.m."

"Opened in 2018, Oregon’s first museum to celebrate Chinese American history, art and culture tells the stories of Portland’s historic Old Town Chinatown."

"Located on the second floor of the Stefanopoulos Center, this museum gathers, preserves and shares the knowledge of the Hellenic (Greek) American experience with the Portland area. Throughout the museum, you’ll be able to explore rich Hellenic culture and history. Click here to explore some of their online exhibits and their event calendar before you visit in person!"

"Celebrating Greek culture and how it has shaped this region, the Hellenic-American Cultural Center & Museum features exhibitions highlighting Greek art and culture, from vases to poets and philosophers."

"Blind Insect is a community space that features a unique collection of various artists and creatives from Peru, Uruguay, Chile, México, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Seattle, Boise, California, Portland, and more. With rotating artists, the gallery shares artwork in various media including sculpture, 2D and 3D media, paintings, collages, glass, paper maché, reproductions, and more... A space to sell your AMAZING artwork."

"The Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden is situated on the western portion of Grant Park. Despite its name, it only contains three statues: a cheerful young girl, a boy, and their dog. These are the characters of popular children’s author Beverly Cleary, namely Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy."

"This park features a playground, an off-leash dog area, a fountain, paths, a picnic area, sports fields and tennis courts. It is also home to the Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden."

"Canard is a cozy French bistro open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily. The dishes are on the small side, so plan to order a few things to share. If you are unsure what to try, consider the French toast made with Cadillac oranges, walnuts, and créme Anglaise, it's divine."

"Ever wonder what a breakfast joint from James Beard winner Gabriel Rucker might look like?. Here it is in Canard (our Restaurant of the Year 2018): a cool Elmer’s on Paris’s Left Bank. The mood continues nonstop for 16 hours daily."

"The hotly anticipated little sibling of chef Gabriel Rucker's rightly famous Le Pigeon, Canard started winning 'best restaurant of the year' designations within weeks of opening at the start of 2018."

"I head on over to the Hawthorne neighborhood, to the Fried Egg I’m in Love food cart. You can’t miss it – it’s bright yellow, I guess to represent an egg yolk?. I usually opt for my favorite, the Yolko Ono breakfast sandwich. A fried egg, homemade pesto and a hand-pressed sausage patty inside perfectly-grilled sourdough bread."

"Time to check out one of Portland’s food cart hot spots, this one with Fried Egg, I’m in Love and Tov Coffee (two of my new found favorites). Although there are waaaaay larger food truck areas, I really wanted to try out Fried Egg, I’m in Love, and yes, partially because I am a true egg lover."

"I had a huge family get together and for the life of me could not find a local restraunt that could serve a party of 13 for breakfast on a…"

"Root Whole Body Cafe is sibling to Blossoming Lotus Restaurant (#10 above) and part of a Wellness Studio/Space (bodywork, yoga and movement classes, naturopathy medicine, nutrition & detox, skincare, chiropractic, acupuncture, alt medicine) that will tackle your every health and serenity need whether or not you knew you had the need. Not strictly 100% vegan but 99% vegan. Located in the booming Slabtown District (in Northwest PDX), Root Whole Body Cafe is a nice departure from other vegan restaurants in that the dishes are really curated towards a specialized niche of diners who know their food combining, their doshas, their chakras and/or their meridiens."

"In addition to traditional massage therapy and facials, Zama Massage offers a handful of distinctive spa services aimed at physical and spiritual wellness. Try the Infrared Detox Wrap or Halo Massage, an ancient massage technique that takes place in Zama’s “halotherapy salt caves” lined with Himalayan salt bricks and ambient LED lights."