Oh, a little egg roll?

Just a little.

Ouch.

That's okay, you could bite me.

I'm tough.

Can't believe this is going on tv.

Portland has caught the eye of the world for

being playful, bike-friendly,

and of course, a little bit indecent.

Cuisine has been at the forefront of its acclaim.

Here, strange is the new normal, punk isn't dead,

and the hippies aren't passé.

Welcome to my new home, Portland,

where it's cool to be weird.

The city of Portland is renowned for its wild and

wacky flavor combinations.

It's no wonder that Salt & Straw has been so

successful here.

By putting bizarre ingredients together in

its ice cream.

I'm headed to their factory to try

my hand at making a few of their favorites.

The cool thing about ice cream is,

it's something that everyone's always like,

excited about.

You can't be sad while you're eating ice cream.

So, it allows us almost to use our ice

cream kind of as a platform.

To really showcase these various ingredients that

other people might not expect in ice cream.

So, I've heard all about your

crazy flavor schemes.

What are we making today?

Bone marrow with smoked cherries.

I'm a huge fan of bone marrow.

Did you, like,

read my mind before picking this flavor?

To start, actually,

we should just get the bone marrow in the oven.

We're gonna cook them just really lightly.

And then, scrape them clean.

In the meantime,

I think we should work on the cherries.

We'll pit them and then smoke them.

So we'll put the fresh ones in.

We've had some in here for

the past couple hours that we'll take out.

Wow, what a beautiful color.

It's okay.

Oh.

Heaven.

Oh, oh it's so good.

Thank you.

You're a master of your craft.

I can already tell.

So this is bourbon,

along with a few different spices.

We're going to combine this with

the cherry juice.

And that's gonna be the flavor for

our ice cream base.

Wow, this looks incredible.

Hey, how long have you guys been open?

Three years now.

We started in a food cart.

We started with seven flavors.

Okay. And, people just started

coming and lining up and

we quickly moved into our shop.

The city has really kind of embraced us.

We've done just over 200 different

flavors in those three years.

This one in particular,

with the bone marrow, we made for

a meat festival actually, here in town.

So, it's really inspiring and like it's a cool city

to be in to learn from.

Ooh, wow. Those look cooked

to perfection.

I can already tell that these two flavors

are going to combine perfectly.

They will.

I promise.

Okay awesome.

I love to scrape bone marrow.

And here all we wanna do is just cook it down to

liquefy this marrow, and

then it should be ready for cream.

That's it.

So now we spin.

These are the ice cream machines.

We do all of our ice cream in five gallon

batches so it's really just small like, very,

very carefully crafted.

I'm just gonna strain this to get all

the frickies out.

Okay.

The what?

The frickies?

Frickies?

The frickies. Is that

a scientific term?

The grizzle?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This is the cherry juice.

The cherry juice with the...

Smoked sauce.

Here's the cream.

So that's bone marrow cream.

That'll flavor,

that'll give it that really dense rich base.

Put it in an ice cream machine.

You just pour it straight in.

Wow, the colors are so gorgeous.

Reminds me of, like, sand art.

I know, this is one of my favorites.

All right, so turn this thing on?

This is the start button right here.

This is where the magic happens.

We'll let it spin maybe five to ten minutes, and

then it'll be ready.

What about these cherries?

These will go in

after it's coming out of the machine.

Then stir them in afterwards.

Okay go ahead and start tossing them in.

Every couple of dollops.

Wow the texture looks so smooth.

It should just be that thick combination.

Wow. You wanna taste test?

Yeah.

Course I do.

Oh my goodness.

Dare I say,

this is the best ice cream I've ever had.

Mm.

I feel like I'm drinking bourbon and

eating smoked cherries.

You gotta pay attention to this ice cream.

It deserves a lot of respect because it's made

with a lot of love.

This is, this is what's up.

It didn't take long after moving here to realize

that Portland is a big town.

One of the weirdest things that cyclists

do here to work up an appetite is the late

night rite of passage known as zoo bombing.

So, I'm meeting up with veteran zoo bomber and

co-owner of A Better Cycle to find out what

it's all about.

What is zoo bombing, exactly?

Zoo bombing is a group of people that,we like to

get together on our Sunday nights, and ride

up to the zoo, and then start riding the bikes

all the way down the hill back into Portland.

So we can get on the Max again, and do it again.

You'll get everyone running from a regular

bike, to a double-decker tall bike, but

most of them ride little tiny kids bikes.

So, the smaller the wheels,

the more extreme it can be.

We're gonna take a ride through Portland, and

meet up with other zoo bombers at a MAX station,

where we can get a lift up to Washington Park.

The run starts near the Oregon Zoo and zooms down

the public suburban streets to the city.

It's not about who finishes first but

more about finishing without crashing.

Three, two, one, zero.

Oh. Good run.

Here we go.

Car!

Car!

So fun.

Right?

Yeah.

Now we're headed to The Roxy.

A local late night favorite that's been open

24/7 for the past 20 years.

I have never experienced anything leggy about me

before.

I've never broken a speed limit on

a bicycle before.

Thank you Erin, appreciate that.

Because of Portland,

it opened the imagination Of a lot of people

over the world.

It's not just growing up and being an adult,

you're still growing up and

acting like a little kid.

And riding the little kids' bikes.

And riding little kids' bikes.

Exactly. We got some chili-cheese

fries here, with onion rings.

Oh, good. After you ride a child's

bike down an enormous hill and basically

risk your life for the sake of fun, this is

exactly the type of food you wanna eat, right?

About right.

Mm. Good.

Really good chili, greasy cheese.

Ranch if you like.

Oh yeah, ranch.

Oh yeah, ranch. Like, you gotta put

ranch on this.

Has anyone ever been ticketed?

It's really rare, not very often at all.

We've got a $20,000 statue erected for

us in the middle of downtown.

Like, I think we've got a little bit of

a safety cushion.

I mean, the police in press conferences stated

we let them police themselves.

Yeah. That's amazing!

I didn't know how much

fun it could be to bomb down a hill on a bike.

It's mostly fun because of the people, I think.

Passionate about their sport,

passionate about fun.

That's what Portland is all about.

Oregonians love getting naked.

So it comes as no surprise that

in the state of Oregon you

can put a strip club just about anywhere.

Portland has more strip clubs than any other city

in the United States.

You can offer full nudity and you can serve

whatever you want when it comes to booze.

The rule is,

since the state liquor laws are very strict,

you have to serve food with your alcohol.

This lends to a very exotic and exquisite

scene when it comes to dining inside the clubs.

And it's only

paralleled by the dancers on the stage.

I got a handful of cash from Vice.

Let's go make it rain!

My first stop has to be the Lucky Devil Lounge.

This place takes great pride in the variety on

its menu, both in the food and in the women.

But before I experience what the dancers have to

offer, I wanna meet with the chef, Luke Zimmerman,

and see what he has cooking in his kitchen.

I started working here because of the food.

And a lot of places do the bare minimum.

They'll have a can of pickled eggs and

a microwave.

And here we do a little more.

We'll do our mac-n-cheese.

It's our ,one of our most popular dishes.

Get a pat of butter in here and

then take some of the hot sauce there.

Sriracha?

Yep.

It makes Portland go around, it good.

Is this ready to go?

Yeah, that's ready.

Oh, man. That looks delicious.

You want some steak bites, too?

I mean, I'm always down to eat.

Nice, that looks really good.

So what's your favorite thing to cook in here?

Probably steak bites.

Cool. Have you had any like,

flaming accidents?

Occasionally, when I'm really busy,

I will flip this up on my arm.

Oh. But it goes

out pretty quick.

Okay, you're flame resistant.

Yeah, I've been doing it for a long time.

You won't find this anywhere else at a strip

club here in Portland.