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Customers sit at a counter in GeekEasy Anime Cafe overlooking NW Third Avenue, Portland, Ore., Feb. 6, 2025. Co-founders A.T. Nguyen and Tommy Ly say they grew up coming to the area, which they knew as Chinatown, and want to bring business back to the neighborhood.
GeekEasy Cafe to open in Portland’s Chinatown as an anime-inspired community hub
The GeekEasy anime cafe holds an opportunity for the second-generation Asian Americans to share their niche interests to draw in some loyal customers. Geeks and nerds who could bring some life back to an area of the city some see as unsafe and abandoned.
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