New Portland life goal: Assemble a group of six or seven friends, and make sure they are the kind who roll deep and hard with food and booze. This is not the time for your friend’s boyfriend who won’t drink rice liquor, and be sure to straight up uninvite your girl who thinks meat on the bone is gross. Gather the squad that’s down for a third order of fried chicken, and will always flag down the waiter for another round of Hite beer.
Pregame until 9 pm, and descend like the Avengers on Chungdam Korean Fusion, which opened recently in a strip mall at SE 82nd and Powell.
You’ll immediately be greeted by a big screen TV that plays K-Pop videos from the time the shop opens at 11:30 am and closes at 1 am. I have seen the Korean Eminem, and he is good. This will be the backdrop as you scrunch into the booths and throw an extra chair at the end.
The front of the late-night menu offers a group of plates at $4.99 and another bunch at $8.99, while the backside has more late night-only items and a best-of list from the daytime menu. If your friends are in—and they better be—just start firing away.
