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Race Weekend 2025

Race Weekend | June 7-8, 2025 | South Hawthorne Waterfront Park, Portland Oregon
Our annual traditional-style dragon boat race held during the Portland Rose Festival. Free to the public. Come and enjoy an exciting weekend of Dragon Boat Races and local food and shopping vendors.


Participating Vendors (2025)

*Info to come as it is finalized

We are so grateful to our wonderful vendors. They add so much to the Portland Rose Festival Dragon Boat Race. With around 5000+ people at race weekend, the vendors provide diverse delightful food and drinks as well as a joyous shopping experience. They help make race weekend an exciting event for all involved, racers, volunteers, and spectators.

Food/Drink


Arrow Coffee & Desserts

At Arrow Coffee & Desserts, our mission is to provide our community with the highest quality coffee and exceptional customer service. We believe that coffee should be more than just a morning pick-me-up; it should be an experience that brings people together and brightens their day! We source only the finest beans from around the world and prepare each cup with care and attention to detail. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff are dedicated to ensuring that every customer leaves feeling satisfied and energized. 

Arrow Coffee & Desserts is committed to supporting our community by sourcing local ingredients and partnering with neighboring small businesses. We are working to reduce our environmental impact through sustainable practices. 

Join us for a cup of coffee and discover the difference that passion and expertise can make.

Offering: Hand-crafted Espresso drinks (hot, cold & blended), Flavored Lemonades, Italian Sodas, Dirty Sodas, Matcha, Cold Brew, Assorted Pastries, Belgian Waffles & Breakfast Sandwiches



Artie’s Shave Ice

Shave ice for people and pets! Artie gives back to the community! A portion of all proceeds go back to local shelters and subsidized training for pets in need.

Offering: Shave ice, slushy drinks, shave ice for dogs, slushy lemonade


Bambū Desserts & Drinks

Bambu Logo

Website: https://www.drinkbambu.com/
Instagram: @pdx_Bambu
TikTok: @_bambupdx
Facebook: @PDXBambu

Bambū, strives in serving authentic Vietnamese desserts and drinks, “just the way you like it!” We take great pride in using the best ingredients to deliver top quality flavors, by brewing fresh teas, using real fruits in our products, offering dairy substitutes, serving mainly vegan and gluten free products, and making most of our ingredients in-house. With over 100 different items, we are sure to have something for you.

Offering: Vietnamese Dessert/Drinks (Desserts, Smoothies, Milk Tea, Fruit Teas, Coffee, Waffles, Mystery Bags)


Little Bear

Authentic Vietnamese Desserts, Boba, and Street Food

Offering: Banh Mi, Bubble Tea, Coffee


Maruka Loka Antojitos

Discover an exquisite taste experience at Maruka Loka, your go-to destination for tantalizing Sonoran-style bacon-wrapped hot dogs.This mobile food purveyor elevates the culinary landscape with its signature hot dogs, esquites, refreshing agua frescas, dulces enchilados, and more. Maruka Loka is on a mission to delight taste buds and offer an extraordinary culinary adventure throughout the PNW!

Offering: Sonoran style bacon wrapped hot dog, esquites, agua fresca, dulces enchiladas, fruit with chamoy.


Scoop of Love

We serve rolled ice cream hibachi style right in front of the customer.

Offering: Rolled Ice Cream


Stoopid Burger

Unique hand crafted burgers. Beef pattied by hand, grilled, with additional toppings selected by customers layered with love on top of a toasted bun. Fries and fried to perfection and tossed in fairydust.

Offering: Burgers, Chicken, Fries, and drinks


We Care Bites

We Care Bites

Instagram: @wecarebites

❤️ Women-owned online shop for authentic, handcrafted Taiwanese homemade dishes. We Care Bite specializes in customized and culturally diverse catering, with a strong emphasis on authentic Taiwanese cuisine and fusion dishes tailored to our clients’ preferences.

Offering: Pork Bun, Sandwich, Scallion Pancake, Tea Egg, Chicken Bento, Fried Rice Noodle, Taiwanese Fried Chicken, Egg Puff, Triangle Rice Ball (Traditional Dragon Boat Festival Dish), Puresnow Ice Cream, Jelly Tea


Baked Happiness

At Baked Happiness, we blend artistry, health-conscious baking, and cultural inspiration to create desserts that are as meaningful as they are delicious. Born from a mother’s love and passion for baking, our mission is to craft cakes that not only look stunning but also nourish and delight. We set ourselves apart by using natural, locally sourced ingredients and reducing sugar without compromising flavor. Rooted in Oregon and inspired by Asian flavors, our cakes feature unique ingredients like taro, matcha, and sesame—each one a reflection of nature, heritage, and care. At Baked Happiness, every cake tells a story and brings people together, one bite at a time.

Offering: 30-layer crepe cake, Japanese iced cheese chiffon. Macaron


Bambuza Hospitality Group

Family-owned Bambuza Vietnam Kitchen & Bar has been serving up delicious rice and noodle bowls, pho, and bành mí sandwiches for over 20 years. You’ll love our high-quality, healthy ingredients, unique flavors, and generous portions.

Find us at Portland International Airport, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Salt Lake City International Airport. We look forward to serving you!

Offering: Vietnamese Coffee, Thai Tea, Lemonade and Banh Mi sandwiches


Retail/Arts & Crafts


RainBro Crafts

All are welcome at RainBro Crafts. We specialize in handcrafted vegan soap, candles, bath bombs and other self-care products. Our mission is to make the world a little bit gayer, greener and cleaner.

Offering: Handcrafted vegan soap, candles, bath bombs, haircare, skincare and beard care.


Dragon Boat Stuff

Dragon Boat Stuff

Dragon Boat Stuff,

Dragon Boat Stuff sells fun, practical, and unique items specifically focused on the needs and enjoyment of dragon boat paddlers (and callers, tillers, coaches, sponsors, family, …). Practical items include paddling gloves, dry bags, paddle blade edge guards, seat pads, and hats. Fun items include plush dragons, dragon (and even dragon boat!) legos/nanoblocks, and 3D printed articulated dragons. Unique items include paddle stickers, jewelry, and decorative items. There are so many new items this year that it may take the whole weekend for folks to see it all.

Offering: paddling gloves, dry bags, paddle blade edge guards, seat pads, and hats


Government/Information


Metro – Parks and Nature

Oregon Metro

Website: www.oregonmetro.gov/
Instagram: @oregonmetro
Facebook: @oregonmetro

Metro Parks and Nature will be at the races on Saturday, June 7 to promote water safety awareness. Visit their booth to get fitted for a free life jacket (while supplies last). You can also pick up a guide to Metro’s park and trail system as well as other free goodies. Learn more about being safe on the water at oregonmetro.gov/watersafety.

Offering: Not selling. Will be giving away free lifejackets and swag


Ilani

ilani Logo

Website: ilaniresort.com/
Instagram: @ilaniresort
Facebook: @ilaniresort

ilani is the Pacific Northwest’s premier gaming, dining, entertainment and meeting destination. With nearly 3,000 slots and 75 gaming tables; 20 different restaurants, bars and retail outlets; a 289-room luxury hotel, and a 2,500-seat meeting and entertainment venue hosting nationally recognized performances.

Offering: Pens, keychains, phone chargers, tote bags


Vendor Information

The sitemap is fairly accurate, but open to some revision. Our team tents may shift slightly in their actual installation Friday and if there is any notable change a new map will be generated. Please note that the Grand Floral Parade will impact traffic on Saturday 5am-2pm, information to help plan is below as well. All vendor locations will be labeled with their numbers from this map using 2 stakes on opposing corners. Once your space is set up parking must be found off site (unless you have a food truck) as required by Portland Rose Festival and Portland Parks. A map below may help with parking.

Event Start Schedule

Saturday: Opening Ceremony – 8:00am, 1st race: 9:00 am
Sunday: 1st race: 8:00 am

Vendor Sitemap

PDF Download | Sitemap | View Vendor Area Inset

Grand Floral Parade Information

Portland Rose Festival | Grand Floral Parade website

The Grand Floral Parade road closures will be from Saturday, June 7th at 5:00 am – 2:00 pm.

Grand Floral Parade Route
RoadClosures GrandFloralParade

Parking

PDF Download | Local Area Parking


Vendor Recruitment

Each Vendor will be contacted by Aaron Bocanegra or Megan Kunze via our email: social_media@pksca.net. A Google form will be sent along, to be filled out along with a contract. The Google form is where the vendor will include the media content and vendor information that will be included in advertisement, social media, and our race booklet. Any interested vendor may reach out to the above email to express interest.

Each food vendor is required to have temporary or permanent food vendor licenses unless exempt. You may see the Oregon Law at the Multnomah County Temporary Food Events site.

PDF Download: Vendor Flyer