Pudding On The Rice

BumMER…
closed, eh? Ironically, it was here, before watchin Dark Knight in IMAX, that we came here to check out what this rice pudding had to offer… tried that, and very smooth and not too sweet. Nice!
but then, my dinnermate spotted a froyo machine… and ironically, here, in this now closed dessert place, that my tongue and tart (I call it Asian-​style… blame Yakult) froyo first made contact. When tongue articulated with that spoon that lovingly cradled that froyo, there was an «elementary, Watson» moment, and I had no more questions about why this trend was spreading like hyphae!
At least one more location still survives.

Their rice pudding was not for me. I could only stomach small amounts before the richness got to me and I started to get sick. However, I’m sad to see them closed down. My wife was a huge fan of their tart frozen yogurt with fresh fruit and I enjoyed their crepes and chocolate.
1 star for being closed, but normally I would’ve given this place a 3 or 4.
As of this post, their website is gone too, but you can follow them on Facebook here:

Update! Straight off the Facebook page:
Pudding on the Rice Our new location is 1503 SW Park Avenue, Portland Oregon 97 201. We are just a block away from the PSU Farmers Market. Between Clay and Market street on Park Avenue. We are hoping to be open by April.

I am an ice cream snob& would have NEVER thought to even try rice pudding. But I happened to be at Bridgeport and my boyfriend likes rice pudding, so I tried it.
And you know what?
Rice pudding is kind of amazing.
Plus the owners are really nice & not hoity toity like the rest of Bridgeport. Always a plus.

Stumbled into this place walking around Bridgeport after lunch. I love rice pudding so we HAD to stop! The guy at the counter was really friendly and helpful, offering us samples of anything. I ask him what his fav’s are. He points out her current favorite, the seasonal pumpkin stating it tastes just like pumpkin pie. He also recommended the Castaway Coconut, Vanilla and the Chocolate.
Since I already had my eye on the coconut, I asked for the small cup. «You want to try it first?» he asks. «Nope!» With a surprised look on his face he fills the small cup. The smallest cups look really small, but they are the perfect portion! The Coconut was AWESOME! Taste just like coconut cream pie! Yum!
My husband got the Cardinal Sin (maraschino cherries and dark choc) equally good! Our friend tried the Rocky Road. My husband didn’t realize he liked rice pudding!
Too bad we just had lunch, would’ve loved to try a crêpe! Or a tart frozen yogurt w/​all the great toppings they offer! Next time!

I’d like to say one word and one word only about this place…
YUM
rice pudding filled crepes? i’m drooling already, omgosh, so yums. like you’d never know. unless you try it, so go!

Rice pudding??? Ew! That’s what I USED to think. This place is YUMMY!
Advice: order a fabulous crêpe, put something wonderfully sweet inside like the chocolate rice pudding. It’s warm and decadent! But… I recommend getting an order of the WONDERFULLY tart plain frozen yogurt to eat with it to tone down the richness of the chocolate. You will be SO Happy you will moan. At least I did… THE WHOLE TIME.
It’s a tiny bit complicated to figure out the ordering process but the guy behind the counter is really nice and lets you try anything you want. He knows it takes awhile to think/​chose and make the crêpe so he will ask the next people what they want to try while you think. You need time to feel the place out but you MUST ORDER … it is SO GOOD!

This place is nothing short of incredible. The guy behind the display who helped me (who turned out to be the owner, incidentally) was so genuinely nice and friendly! He encouraged me to sample several kinds of rice pudding – each of which was my favorite, by turns – and then, noticing my anguish in having to decide between yogurt and rice pudding, told me he could do a dish of half tart frozen yogurt & half rice pudding of my choice. This is my new favorite dessert anywhere. I chose coconut rice pudding, and it was the perfect counterpoint to the yogurt. Speaking of the frozen yogurt – it’s the real thing: tart, just a hint of sweetness, with active live cultures. I’ve found it at Trader Joe’s but nowhere else – until tonight. I’m just sorry I wasn’t hungry enough to try one of those beautiful crepes. Next trip, I guess. :-)
By the way, in case you’re wondering whether there’s a story behind this interesting combination of dessert offerings – the owner told me that he and his wife just decided to start a shop serving their favorite things, focusing on quality (everything is made from scratch on the premises). Bravo! I wish more restaurants operated on such a perfect and simple philosophy.

If you walked in here and had no idea that it was a rice pudding shop, you’d think you were in some trendy gelato/​frozen yogurt shop with minimalist furniture and several flat screen TVs on the walls.
As you walk closer to the display case, you’ll notice that those metal bins aren’t contained with ice cream but RICE PUDDING in a ton of flavors just like ice cream. I’ve never encountered such a shop before. I sampled the coconut flavor (very good – like coconut cream pie) before selecting a small size of banana. The small size was perfect for the thick and creamy pudding… the cup is small, making you think that you might want to order up but because the pudding itself is so dense, the small size is more than generous (unless you really really love the stuff). The flavor was pretty good too, almost like banana pudding (which I love tremendously). I really wanted to try their tart frozen yogurt that they also serve but I didn’t want to look like a pig by ordering a 2^nd dessert.

Rice pudding eateries are hard to come by – this plus «Rice to Riches» in NYC are the only rice pudding centric places I’ve ever seen. It’s pretty amazing that a suburb of a fairly small city can support such a unique place. They have a massive amount and wide variety of rice pudding flavors, and the nice dude working there will let you try samples of as many as you’d like.
The smallest size is big enough for a normal adult – it may look tiny, but this stuff is way heavier than ice cream! Plus the guy working here was awesome ! «Do you need a lid» he asked? «No thanks» I replied. «Okay, so I can pile it on then!» And then he proceeded to pile the rice pudding way above the top of the container. Nice service indeed.
The prices are more affordable than Rice to Riches and the packaging is less wasteful. So tons of bonus points for that! Please move to Portland! Please leave Tigard’s «Bridgeport Village,» which is so So Cal it’s disgusting. I really don’t want to have to feel like I’m in an outdoor mall in Orange county just to get some awesome rice pudding!

was SO full from my dinner at «the observatory» (see review). first, the bad. they need MUSIC. you walk in, it’s all white with cute colors here and there, but QUIET. something, please! also, there are these 3 large tvs up on the wall with the same screen. no animation, nothing. i think it’d be nice if there was something.
the good. it’s damn good. i’m so lucky i have a brother that knows good food and knows me :) he takes me to all the yummy places in the greater portland area. i ordered the mint rice pudding with yogurt. i like it better with the yogurt. it addes a nice tart flavor and more depth to the dessert.
i’ll be back. there are SO many different flavors that change here and there. can’t wait!!!

what an unexpected surprise finding this place after watching a movie in Bridgeport. I loved rice pudding growing up and haven’t had it in ages.
the number of choices was pretty overwhelming, but the super friendly server was willing to let us try as many different flavors as we wanted. the toffee was pretty tasty though I think a fruity flavor might have been better. also, the smallest size is PLENTY for one person since it’s pretty rich.
they also have yogurt and crepes, one of which I’ll probably try the next time I make it back there.

I SO wanted to like it. I love new and novel things and this place fits all of the cute parameters: cute place, cute logo, cute concept, cute little cups, cute colors, cute décor… anyway, it’s cute. You get it. I know. And I would say, if you already like rice pudding, then by all means, go. Try it. If you’re already a fan of this stuff then you will be impressed with all the wonderful variety of flavor offerings. The service is also first-​rate. So, really this review is strictly for does Alice like rice pudding?
For me, it came down to: did I like it? Would I go again? I did not like it sam I am. It was a texture thing. On the plus side, Pudding on the Rice gave me a great reason to drive out to the Bridgeport Mall (which is lovely and very faux-​parisian upscale-​ish street stroll but with Borders, Gymboree and ZGallery instead). But I wouldn’t drive out to Tigard again just to have rice pudding. Sorry.

I should add some examples of the flavors they offer, since I have a menu on hand. They claim to have over 40 flavors of pudding made by scratch daily:
Apple Jack, Blueberry Finn, Castaway Coconut, Cinnamon Kane, Che’s Cake (cheesecake), Craisin Arizona, Toffee, Espresso Self, Fourteen Karat Cake (carrot cake), Ginger Spice, Instant Karmal, Lemon Merengue, Living in the Pastachio, Mocha Mocha, Of Rice and Mint, Peachy Keen, Peanut Butterfuco, Pecan pi, Peppermint Schtick, Red Rum, Smashing Pumpkin, Strawberry Fields Forever, The Rocky Road Most Traveled, Vanilla Rice Rice Baby.
You can see they are very creative as well :)

Strawberries + cream + crêpe + coupon = LOVE
Perfect spot to grab something sweet after a movie at Bridgeport. Show your movie stub and get 15% off.

What a fab concept?! Gourmet rice pudding in 18 or so flavors made with fresh organic ingredients. Fro-​yo is soooo 2007.
You can add fruits, marshmallows, oreo cookies or granola for toppings. I stuck with raspberry and blueberry as toppings for my banana flavored rice pudding. Who would’ve thought rice pudding can be so yummy!
They also have crepes if that’s your thang. But you gotta try the pudding, you can’t go wrong.
Super friendly staff. And I gotta give props to the pastel-​minimalist-​harajuku-​esque décor. Who would’ve thought something so cool originated in Idaho! =)

Just went to see Ironman and found this little shop on our way out of the theater. I had never had rice pudding before but this is not too shabby stuff. Not really much of a value though. The medium, which is really kinda small, is $ 4.
So like, my money is probably going to stay over at Skinnydip until Pinkberry opens up around here.
They also have crepes if you’re not really into this stuff.

its so white inside it makes my eyeballs hurt and it makes me think i could successfully remove someone’s appendix with ease. beyond the sterile environment are really friendly staff and a wide variety of different flavored rice puddin’.
I am no fan of rice puddin’ but I tired a sample of the bittersweet symphony (cuuuuuuuuz its the bittersweet symphony thats liiiiiife) it was chocolatey and pretty good — however its really rich — not sure if I could eat a whole cup of it…
I settled on a fresh made crêpe — with peanut butter and nutella –yummo! I asked for it to go so it was all wrapped up in a cup which actually made it easier to eat then when its spread out on a plate.
The crepes are $ 4 for one topping and $.50 for each add’l.
ps: don’t actually try to operate in here. I might want a crêpe soon and would hate to interrupt a delicate procedure.

Yes, it’s official, I’m in love. In love with rice pudding. Right after they opened I went past the shop but was in a hurry to get to a movie and thought nothing of it. Then I saw them featured on a local morning show and thought, «Hmmm, Linda would really like this!» So off we went.
The guy working the shop, the owner I think, was incredibly enthusiastic and very excited to tell us about it. He offered samples of any, and as many of the flavors as we wanted. Finally, we settled on «Vanilla Rice Rice Baby» for me and a crêpe with «Bittersweet Symphony» filling for my wife. The crepes are fresh made, to order on the spot. The contrast of warm and was quite wonderful. The cold pudding was excellent as well; thick, sweet and with plenty of rice.
The shop itself is very modern, with «designer» furniture, LCD screens for menus and very bright lighting made worse by the white walls. I t felt like a 31 Flavors meets the Jetsons, but I liked it.
It was a great place and hope it does well. The concept is great and unique, but maybe a little too unique for the location. Only time will tell. I know we’ll be back!

really good… if you like rice pudding!
I had rice pudding before so I didn’t have much to compare this too. The man behind the counter was really nice and let me try as many as I wanted… which was like 5!!! Its thick and creamy… and ricey :)
I had the apple cinnamon which was really good. My boyfriend had a nutella crêpe which was decadent (we watched the man butter the grill with LARD!!!)…
The place was posh and clean and employees were friendly