E-San Thai Cuisine

History

133 sw 2nd Portland Oregon is the restaurant

Specialties

We are a family-run business who pride ourselves in serving fresh and healthy food daily using ingredients from local markets in Oregon. Even with multiple locations (plus, 7 food carts across the greater Portland area and Vancouver), E-San Thai Cuisine is still family owned and operated. A little more about us... Thais from the Northeast section of Thailand, Issan (or Esan), consider themselves Lao, and historically this part of Thailand and Laos have very close connections reflected in the music, dress and, of course, the food. E-San Thai's head chef, Ting Pathammavong, was raised there, and now she blends her own variations of recipes from her traditional land. For over 10 years, Ting worked in the kitchen of just about every Thai restaurant in Portland, Oregon, before a friend suggested that she and her husband, Mao, open up their own. That was over 19 years ago when their twin girls were still toddlers, and if asked about it, Mao smiles and says he still loves it.