In certain ways, Jacky Ren saved Bing Mi when it was on the verge of extinction. Between the closing of the Alder Street Food Carts and the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fate of the jianbing cart, then closed, was uncertain. But in 2020, Ren — who moved to Portland from the Shandong province of China in 2016 — offered to buy out the rest of the owners and take over the business; the cart reopened in the Nob Hill Food Carts in Northwest Portland, with the sausage-and-cracker-filled, saucy crepes that helped develop its reputation. At the beginning of 2022, Ren will expand the Bing Mi brand even
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