As a Singaporean, you sometimes forget that being food-obsessed is not necessarily the factory setting for other nationalities.
So-called "foodie culture" has spread more unevenly across the United States and one of the trailblazers in this regard has been Portland, Oregon, which is a short hop from Seattle.
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