Du's Grill

Episode 5: 📍 Du’s Grill (Northeast Portland) I didn’t know about this spot until my cousin Joe (who went to benson) put me on. Growing up on 83rd off Flavel, I never really hit Sandy, but since then I’ve made a lot of memories eating @dusgrill 🥲 I pull up every time I’m in town !! So when the owner invited us to film, we were ready to go 🕊️ Super grateful for the experience. Big thanks to Anthony & the whole Du’s team 🙇🏽‍♂️ +++ love to @eastsidebaby_111 , Cin, baby ‘Liv, & the entire @film.department for shooting / editing. We do all of this IN HOUSE with ZERO BUDGET, in case y’all ain’t know 🕺🏽 Todo con la familia. Anyway … this is Put You On, Portland Edition 🗣️ Episode 5 Next episode coming this week !! Follow us so you don’t miss it 🫂 love. Songs: @lovecertt x @phonzz x @jvon.world x @deuce_b – LOVEMYLIFE from The Brick Wall Theory & BALLOONS from our upcoming project SANDBOX 🏖️ produced by @notgraphinity +++ @lovecertt x @dayzlata x @jvon.world – OUTSIDE from our project LOVE LATA WORLD ♥️✌🏽🌐

Best known teriyaki 🍱 in the universe? 🤔 Yo, @dusgrill wasn’t on my radar for Portland. But when our host @nomnom_nori took us to a nearby cafe on Sandy Boulevard, the scent alone lured me in. Owner Anthony Park, familiar with Righteous Eats, made time to chat. 🤜🏼🤛🏼 In the Pacific Northwest, teriyaki became more than a meal—it became a Korean 🇰🇷 immigrant hustle. Originally Japanese 🇯🇵, it came over in the ’70s, but it was the Korean immigrants in the ’80s and ’90s who really ran with it. Cheap, simple, and Americanized, it became their ticket to stability, especially in places like Seattle. Anthony’s parents were part of that wave in neighboring Portland. Now, after his mother’s passing and his father’s retirement, he’s carrying on the legacy, keeping the bold flavors alive and pushing them further. 🥹 From shout outs by rapper @amine to many praise from the local press, Du’s Grill has cemented itself as a neighborhood staple. It’s not just about the food—it’s got the roots to become a legacy. Aight, peace and blessings. 🤜🏼🤛🏼 #portland #portlandoregon #portlandfood

A prolonged stretch of sun upended by one random, sudden day of rain calls for one thing… my recreation of the running Stephen Colbert gag when he cursed the hot K-Pop star of the time, RAIN, for superseding him in popularity using whatever metric of measuring popularity that they used in 2007. “RAAAAAIIIIIIINNNN!!!!” Colbert would cry while shaking his fist to the sky. I’m serious. Google it. This was an actual bit. Which seemed even more novel at the time because this was pre-Gangnam-Style and pre-BTS and before K-Pop had become the cultural juggernaut it has become today. Nowadays, you can literally find K-Pop on your Happy Meals. What a time to be alive

Yes. Sometimes I eat cheeseburgers for breakfast. But only when I’m in Keizer before noon. And want to pretend I’m Samuel Jackson in “Pulp Fiction” before they blast those dudes in the apartment who screwed over Marcellus Wallace. Also, Du’s Grill wasn’t open for breakfast. You don’t do as I do. You be patient for another hour and go have Du’s Grill for lunch. Then I won’t have to bust into your apartment and quote verses from the book@of Ezekiel in the Tarantino Standard Version. You WOULD like my Sam Jackson impression though. Ask me to take your order in my Sam Jackson voice next time you see me at the store. I’ve been quoting that movie for over two decades. BTW these are the ramblings that run through my head when I have to be on Keizer before noon

WELLSPENT MARKET remains the one and only retail establishment which has ever carried and sold Du’s Grill Sauce and Dressing!!! It was a short lived era due to our co-packer ceasing their bottling operations. But I was always grateful to WSM for helping to bear the Du’s Grill torch to the uninitiated far and wide!!! So I was out about in McMinnville and saw them at the Mac Market!!! Mac Market is one fine and dandy market to be housing a market as fine and dandy as Well Spent!!! Thank you for the delicious salad to accompany my pizza and beer WSM!!!!!

HOW AWESOME ARE MY CUSTOMERS????? JESSICA @yourstuley COMES THROUGH WITH THE CHERRY DILLY BARS!!!! THANKS JESSICA!!!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁 (this is setting a dangerous precedent. Next time I might ask for a PS5 😈😈😈)

Welp. Someone called out sick to@ight . You what the dilly is. The dilly is the word “dilly” should never be uttered unless in exclusive reference to DILLY BARS FROM DAIRY QUEEN. I love Dilly Bars. Especially cherry. The ironic thing is this building used to be a Dairy Queen before it turned into Du’s Grill. They used to sell Dilly Bars right where I stand yet I stand here without one. I’m working tonight and if you bring a few Dilly Bars for me and the crew I’ll hook you up with a teriyaki meal if your choice on the house!!! I’m not sure if that’s even a good deal or not because I don’t recall how much the market price for a Dilly Bars is these days but you will forever have my appreciation!!!!

When my wife and I are laying in bed doomscrolling and she happens upon a Korean variety show that plays a Kanye West song from before the era when he became Mister Kardashian and I recognize the song in the first three notes and ask her about it, I feel like I should get more credit for that then I have been appropriated

Okay Game 3 didn’t end so hot for us. GAME 4 IS A MUST WIN. AND I HUST READ WEMBY’S BACK. Since Du’s Grill is closed today I HAVE DECIDED TO BRING THE POWER OF TERIYAKI TO MODA CENTER INSTEAD!!!! Ummm, wait, that’s misleading. Makes me sound like I’m serving teriyaki here. Alas no. BUT TERIYAKI IS IN MY SOUL AND IS NOW EMANATING FROM THE CONFINES OF YHIS ARENA!!!!! I’ve already run into two Du’s Grill patrons and tip off is still 30 minutes away!!! LET’S DO THIS!!!!!! GAME 4 IS OURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MY PRE GAME MEAL. Outdoor seating while the weather is nice. You go get you something delicious also so you’ll have the energy to too our Blazers on. If you choose teriyaki DU’S GRILL IS HERE FOR YOU. GO BLAZERS!!!!!!!

THREE MORE WHO BELIEVED IN THE POWER OF TERIYAKI!!!!!!!!! GO BLAZERS!!!!!!!!!!! (I hope everyone knows I’m not claiming any credit for th hard work and perseverance of our home team!!!! I just really like the Blazers and I really like teriyaki and I’ve loved talking to all of you about the Blazers during this improbable… has it really only been one win???? Hahahah more to come!!!!!!!!!!) (I also love talking to you about anything and everything else but obviously my mind has been preoccupied hahahhahaha)

SHOUT OUT TO SCOTT @chicolarock who heeded my advice and BELIEVED IN THE POWER OF TERIYAKI AND WILLED THE BLAZERS TO A WIN LAST NIGHT!!!! And also Scoot and Timelord and Jrue and Tisse of course 😁😁😁😁😁😁 THANK YOU SCOTT!!!! GO BLAZERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HURRY HOME AND TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS!!!!!!!!