diff --git a/google/cloud/bigtable/value.cc b/google/cloud/bigtable/value.cc
index 0fea5cada96c7..492b37d2a9e51 100644
--- a/google/cloud/bigtable/value.cc
+++ b/google/cloud/bigtable/value.cc
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ std::ostream& StreamHelper(std::ostream& os,  // NOLINT(misc-no-recursion)
         return os << v.string_value();
       case StreamMode::kAggregate:
         os << '"';
-        EscapeQuotes(os, v.string_value());
+        EscapeQuotes(os, AsString(v.string_value()));
         return os << '"';
     }
     return os;  // Unreachable, but quiets warning.
diff --git a/google/cloud/bigtable/value_test.cc b/google/cloud/bigtable/value_test.cc
index 7aeee5a66b5bc..84b6932067a1f 100644
--- a/google/cloud/bigtable/value_test.cc
+++ b/google/cloud/bigtable/value_test.cc
@@ -240,11 +240,29 @@ template <typename T,
                                     .string_value()),
           typename std::enable_if<
               std::is_same<std::remove_cv_t<std::remove_reference_t<U>>,
-                           absl::Cord>::value>::type* = nullptr>
+                           absl::Cord>::value>::type* = nullptr,
+          typename std::enable_if_t<
+              !std::is_same<T, std::vector<std::string>>::value, int> = 0>
 StatusOr<T> MovedFromString(Value const&) {
   return T{""};
 }
 
+template <typename T,
+          typename U = decltype(std::declval<google::bigtable::v2::Value>()
+                                    .string_value()),
+          typename std::enable_if<
+              std::is_same<std::remove_cv_t<std::remove_reference_t<U>>,
+                           absl::Cord>::value>::type* = nullptr,
+          typename std::enable_if_t<
+              std::is_same<T, std::vector<std::string>>::value, int> = 0>
+StatusOr<T> MovedFromString(Value const& v) {
+  auto v2 = v.get<T>();
+  if (!v2.ok()) {
+    return v2.status();
+  }
+  return T{v2->size(), std::string{""}};
+}
+
 // NOTE: This test relies on unspecified behavior about the moved-from state
 // of std::string. Specifically, this test relies on the fact that "large"
 // strings, when moved-from, end up empty. And we use this fact to verify that