October 2, 2019
Minority & Small Business Week
Page 5
Kee’s #Loaded Kitchen Cooks up Soul
A Portland
favorite with
an original dish
each day
b everly C orbell
t he p ortland o bserver
Kiauna Nelson, owner of Kee
#Loaded Kitchen food truck at the
corner of Northeast Martin Luther
King Jr. Boulevard and Beech
Street, really wants people to en-
joy the delicious soul food dishes
and desserts she has made a sig-
nature for good eats. She doesn’t
believe in small portions, prefer-
ring to keep customers happy with
big plates of satisfaction. She also
doesn’t post a menu, concentrat-
ing instead on a unique meal ev-
ery day.
“Today it’s barbecued wings,
homemade mac and cheese and
sweet potato pie,” she said. Some
daily lunch combinations are re-
peats, she said, but she doesn’t
post a menu because she doesn’t
want her offerings to grow stale.
“When you cook the same thing
every day, it can lose quality,” she
said. “And I don’t want that.”
Nelson has been in business
by
C ontinued on p age 16
photo by b everly C orbell /t he p ortland o bserver
Kiauna Nelson, owner of Kee’s #Loaded Kitchen, Portland’s most favorite food cart as rated in a reader poll by Willamette Week, gets
ready to serve one of her original dishes of the day at 3624 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.