MOONCAKES
85C Bakery Cafe
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This Taiwanese bakery chain is currently offering both Taiwanese and Cantonese mooncakes, both individually and in gift boxes. Fillings include red bean, walnut date, almond lotus seed, and pineapple yolk.
Tigard
99 Ranch Market
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The reliable Asian supermarket chain is fully stocked with a wide selection of mooncakes, including ones with red bean paste, white lotus seed, and lava custard (oozy, creamy salted egg yolks).
Beaverton
HeyDay
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In lieu of actual mooncakes, the small-batch Asian bakery is celebrating with mini doughnuts in four different flavors (ube, lychee, black sesame matcha, and mugwort) and confetti shortbread cookies with pretty mooncake designs. If you get all four mini doughnuts, you'll get a cute box to take home, and a limited quantity of paper lanterns are available while supplies last.
Lents
Lan Su Chinese Garden
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The peaceful botanical garden's Yunshui Teahouse is serving up classic mooncakes. While you're there, you can also admire stunning floating rabbit installations in the garden's Lake Zither through September 23.
Old Town-Chinatown
Li Min Bakery & Bistro
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You'll find a range of mooncakes at this Montavilla bakery, including ones stuffed with winter melon and red bean.
Montavilla
Mei Sum Bakery
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Scoop up mooncakes with white lotus and red bean, encased in a tender pastry layer and available with or without egg yolks, at this bakery tucked inside Powell Street Station.
South Tabor
Shop Halo Halo
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Baker Geleen Abenoja's Filipino bakeshop is offering boxes of treats with the flavors of Mid-Autumn and fall: each box includes two ube mooncakes, a tocino cheddar biscuit, a vanilla chai shortbread cookie, a slice of apple ginger spice cake, a slice of maple rosemary pear cake, a pan de coco, and a piece of hojicha butter mochi. Place pre-orders on the website by September 23 for pickup at the bakery on September 28 or 29.
Woodstock
Sugar Blooms Bakery
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This Bethany Village bakeshop is accepting pre-orders for three types of mooncakes (salted egg yolk lava custard, taro mochi, and pandan mung bean mochi) for pickup from September 16-17 and 21-22. A limited supply will also be available for in-store purchase, but pre-orders are highly recommended to ensure you snag yours.
Bethany Village
EVENTS
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
Portland Mid-Autumn Festival
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This free, family-friendly event hosted by the White Lotus Foundation at the recently opened Hong Phat Supercenter promises a slew of food and drink vendors, merch, cultural performances, games and activities, handmade wares from local AAPI-owned businesses, and a moonlit lantern parade symbolizing hope and unity. Admission is free to all, but impatient festival-goers can purchase a fast pass ticket to skip the line at the entrance.
Hong Phat Food Center, 2-10 pm
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
Mid-Autumn Banquet
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Golden Horse, one of Chinatown's last remaining Chinese restaurants, will host this sumptuous eight-course banquet in honor of Mid-Autumn Festival, complete with dishes like Peking pork, green onion oysters, salt and pepper squid, seafood claypots, and whole fried chickens stuffed with fried rice. Of course, they'll have mooncakes for dessert, as well as mahjong, raffle prizes, and other themed activities.
Golden Horse, 6-9 pm
