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Salt & Straw lavender honey ice cream: Excellent smooth texture. Too often, honey ice cream is too sweet and lavender ice cream is too floral. This ice cream is neither and is very well balanced. Scoop is extremely generous. Maybe too generous as I'm only interested in a taste. 4.5/5.0

icecream sweets dessert lavender honey portland strawandsugar saltstraw ice cream 4.5
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Caleb's Kola: Sparkling soda with added kola flavor. Mild carbonation, light. Wish all sodas had at most this amount of sugar (29g). 3.5/5.0

calebs fairtrade kola drinks soda recommended 3.5
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Biwa's ginger soda: Refreshing drinks that begins mild but ends with a kick. Good level of carbonation and very lightly sweetened. 3.5/5.0

ginger soda drinks biwa portland recommended biwas 3.5
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United's Bistro on Board's chicken and swiss focaccia: In a moment of weakness and extreme hunger (and after an hour delay on a ~6 hour flight) I gave into paying almost $10 for an in-flight meal. What I received was surprisingly edible. The focaccia had a strong tomato flavor, not too dissimilar from a hot pocket, and the chicken was actually not that dry. The bread sticks to the back of your teeth like most frozen meals. The sandwich came scalding hot, probably straight from the microwave. Definitely an overpriced, (likely) frozen meal, but p... (read more) 2.5/5.0

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Paris Baguette whole wheat red bean bun: A sad, generic pastry. Bread is unsubstantial and mostly flavorless, filling is overly sweet. 1.5/5.0

parisbaguette redbean bread bakery pastry asian avoid whole wheat red bean bun 1.5
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Pork Clouds Malabar black pepper pork rinds: On the salty side, but good level of crunch. Peppery flavor is not overwhelming. Overall, pretty good. 3.0/5.0

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