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Resting in front o f the Wing Ming Herbs shop in the center o f the "New China Town’ in southeast
Portland is a bin filled with 30 to 40-year-old mushrooms called Wild Ling Zhi which is used as a
health supplement in boosting an individual’s immune system.
Yu said a lot of the customers
visit the store on a regular basis.
The clientele, however, are people
from all sorts of backgrounds and
ing the immune system and keeping areas of the city.
the body healthy.
“Fifty-percent Asian,” she said.
She said the mushrooms are 30 to "It is unique because of service and
40 years old.
specialty.” '
According to Jang, a lot of the
A grandmother walked in with
store’s available products, which her daughter and eight-year-old
would be easy to find in China, are granddaughter looking to purchase
not easy to find within the United some medicine and Fish oil.
States. “Here about 80 to 90 percent
Although their English was not
of the medicines are the same as in quite fluent, they clearly communi­
China.”
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around the intimate store helping
customers find the herbs they were
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individuals unfamiliar with Chinese
medicine.
In the front of the store rested a
giant mushroom called the wild Ling
Zhi, which Yu said is good for boost­
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