Pure Spice Restaurant
Pure Spice Restaurant
Family style Chinese food
Loctus leaf sticky rice. Ok la
Menu
Menu
Tofu
Chicken feet, could be more tender.
Braised beef with radish claypot
food, chicken wings and fried chicken
Pig Ears
Eggplant
Radish Cake
Chinese styled tender beef
Clams
Covid saran wrap?
Happy Buddha
Siu mai. Comes with four but mom ate two on the way back haha. So so.
Exterior
menu
food, crepes
Dry beef chow fun, pork buns, shrimp hagow, pork and shrimp siu mai, egg custard and green tea of course
Shrimp Rice Roll
Sticky Rice in Lotus Leaf
Menu (Aug 2023)
food
Steve V.
Jun 23, 2024
Parking was tight around lunchtime. But getting a table was a breeze. The dining area is quite large. Menus have pictures of all items. Dim Sum by the order (no carts). Ordered shumai, pork ribs and tofu rolls. What came out of the kitchen was very flavorful and filling. Ordered a noodle dish which ended up in a To Go box. Great spot!
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Ariel W.
Sep 30, 2024
Came for dim sum on a Saturday about 1:00 PM. Didn't want to deal with the lines and wait times at the other near by dim sum places so we came here since they don't do the whole cart ordeal and it is a smaller place which usually has seating available. The restaurant was somewhat busy but still had plenty of seating available in the back room. We ordered a bunch of dim sum plates such as the pork shiu mai, shrimp and scallion dumplings, BBQ pork buns, radish cakes, pork soup dumplings, etc. It took them a while to take our order and then even longer for our food to arrive (I'd estimate 30 minutes for the first plate to arrive). After our food finally arrived, we had to ask for chili paste and the waitress said she'd get it but then went on to clean up other tables when there was no one waiting to be seated and plenty of other available tables. After a bit longer I got up to approach the front counter to ask for some sauce and they finally acknowledged my request. Also wanted to note even though there were many available tables in the back room they placed us at an awkward spot right next to the bussing bins and at one point they asked us to get up and move during our meal so they could grab the cart. Looked around and everyone else had water glasses and at least Sriracha on their table whereas we had never been offered any. Overall service to non-Asian customers seemed to be an afterthought and they made it seem apparently inconvenient for both parties. Food was overall ok but the experience doesn't really have me itching to come across town for another round of dim sum here.
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Timothy L.
Jan 15, 2024
Decent spot for Chinese food in SE Portland but there are better places out there. They have a good mix of Cantonese and Sichuanese dishes. My family and I came during Christmas so it was super packed and busy when we came in. We ordered the roast duck, water boiled fish, fish sauce eggplant, cumin lamb, and beef chow fun. I enjoyed the water boiled fish, duck, and lamb the most. The eggplant was a tad too sweet and the beef chow fun could have had more flavor. The service was super slow but I can't blame them since it was Christmas.
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Darren Y.
Oct 14, 2023
Two opposing reviews. Had takeout dinner and was not very good. However just got dim sum and would recommend this place for that. See the other recent review - guy said it was better than NYC HK TW SG - wouldn't go that far but definitely better than the places in this neighborhood. Price very reasonable and good flavor. Rice noodle wrapped fried donut was excellent
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Charlie T.
Aug 26, 2023
It is a pretty solid hole in the wall style restaurant that serves some good Chinese food. It looks small from the outside, but actually a bit larger inside. The service here is pretty quick, and the food comes out quick. I really enjoyed the braised beef and radish claypot with the garlic pea sprout. The chow fun was decent, and the Chinese styled tender beef was a bit sweet for me.
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Melissa T.
Jun 21, 2024
Love the food at Pure Spice! We had the scallop dumpling, shrimp and chive dumpling , sticky rice in lotus leaf, siu mai, Chinese broccoli with oyster sauce, the rice noodle with spare ribs, and took home some salted fish and chicken friend rice as well as the beef chow fun. Everything was excellent. Will definitely be returning!
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Mia H.
Oct 18, 2022
When you walk in, you can immediately tell that this is a family-run restaurant in the best way. Sure, it may not look like the fanciest place, but it is very authentic. Service was okay (but I wasn't expecting it to be great ahah, reality of the true Chinese food experience), however, they were really quick in cooking and serving the food!The first dish we got was the salt and pepper squid (which was quickly inhaled by my friends and I, that's why I don't have any picture of it), and it was definitely my favorite. My friends ordered the other dishes, because they know more about Chinese cuisine than I do and their Chinese is also better aha. But, everything was good. Not great, but good. There wasn't anything particularly bad about the experience, but personally, I think that there are restaurants with a better dining environment and friendlier service in the area so I wouldn't come back.
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Marion V.
Jun 9, 2024
I love this tiny place buzzing with Chinese customers. The food is authentic and scrumptious. I had the Singapore noodles and beef satay, both were excellent. The staff is friendly and e noy running their restaurant.
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Elizabeth G.
Mar 10, 2022
A guy at my Post Office recommended this place, because Wong's King is gone, and it's right next door.He said the Dim Sum here is good and cheap.We were up for the adventure.The first time we came here, we were seated in from of the fresh saltwater tropical fish tank, quite welcoming.We tried our favorites and compared them to Excellent Cuisine next door.The front of the restaurant is modest, but when you go inside, you can see a large banquet room available for large groups or parties.The Siew Mai are unusually sweeter, but good.The Haw Kow are more flavorful and yummy.The Chicken Bow were rather non descript.The Shanghai Soup dumplings were good.The Naw Mai Gai (sticky rice in lotus leaves) were much better than next door.The Roast Duck and Dan Tat (egg custards) are AMAZING!!!The next time we came here, we decided to try some new items.The waitress remembered us, and struck up a conversation with us.The Cha Siew Bow is almost totally bread. The bread was good, but we were expecting more filling.They have Beef Rolls, which are HUGE! The beef inside is tender, and the outer wrapper is thick and deep fried, totally flavorful inside and out. These are worth getting. We had these are Duck House and were totally disappointed, as they were so very sad and skimpy compared to these Beefy ones at Pure Spice.The Cheese and Shrimp egg rolls are novel, and really good. They we're gone first. Yum Then they served us the Salt Pepper Tofu OMG a MUST HAVE!!! I recommend going out of your way to come to Pure Spice for this dish alone.Wong's King had this dish called Multi-flavored Tofu, but Excellent Cuisine does not carry it.The only other restaurant that I know of that has this is Szechaun Chef in John's Landing (we will try those next)
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Brett B.
Sep 4, 2024
Good food good service cheap dim sum. Kind of a hole in the wall, but I go there all the time.
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