Pure Spice Chinese Restaurant

2446 SE 87th Ave, Portland
(503) 772-1808

Recent Reviews

Gwonkee

So much food, so

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Julia Tienson

Wow!! We came here for Chinese New Year and had such a lovely experience. It’s family owned and operated, truly authentic and everything we ordered was delicious—the best Chinese food I’ve had! Soup dumplings, shumai, the saigon curry noodles, BBQ pork, sesame balls for dessert—we’ll be back soon!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Donald L.

Food is authentic, very tasty and good portions. Value is there, six audits-8 dishes for less than $170.00. Wow! The service was excellent, and it's New Year's Day. The new owners did very well, they just need more parking! We will be back.

Stephen M.

We went there for my friend's birthday. We started off with the most delicious sizzling rice soup which they graciously substituted chicken for the seafood. Then we had lemon chicken and Mongolian beef. Absolutely delicious and wonderful. Our waitress, Ching, was a delight and so accommodating. We have found our new Chinese restaurant.

Timothy L.

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.

Hank Pailet

This is the third time I’ve ordered- first time was great, second time so-so. Tried a third time, woof.I’m not feeding this to my dog. It smells like rancid oil, and tastes like burnt plastic. Uber eats won’t refund the order, so cool- $40 for two noodles dishes that we can’t eat.Skip this one

J W

Ordered the sweet and sour pork, made into a combination. The hot and spicy soup was delicious. The BBQ pork is moist and delicious as well.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

travelingpanda1993

I've been sitting on this for a couple of weeks, but felt the need to share my experience. I came here in August with my mother after attending the Jade International Night Market at PCC's Sylvania campus. It was around 5-6 PM. The ambiance was charming enough (cute fish tank), but it wore off as time went on. Staff were speaking to each other at an abnormal volume, seemingly arguing with each other. It also took a long time to place our order, with generally poor service throughout. I ordered a chicken dish. As we were waiting, I could smell cigarette smoke coming from the banquet room. Though the dish came in a reasonable amount of time and a good portion. The core issue is that a day after eating here, both my mother and I became quite ill. As both of us were in perfectly good health before, there's no doubt in my mind that we got food poisoning. While it brings me no joy to write such a poor review, especially as restaurants recoup from COVID, I need to be honest. I'd recommend caution before you decide to eat here.

Samuel “Slamb” Smith

The rice noodle add egg is my favorite dish that I’ve had so far. Excited to come back with a bigger group and try the chef recommended

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Ian Woodford

Dim sum is good and available at all hours. But after 3:30 the price goes up for the same dishes. Menu is solid. Relatively cheap too.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 4

Lesa Chen

Preorder out days ago and they increased the price at pick up day. I They also denied the total cost communicated on the phone so we're not going back. Not very cool.

Service: 1

Daisy To

Food is OK but waitress sure flipped her attitude when she saw me pressing skip button for tips. Since when does togo orders deserve tips??

Yolanda E.

Very elegant inside; nice Asian decor. I like the wide variety of Chinese dishes available on the menu, though prices are high (average price may be $20 per entree). Portions are large though. My food arrived hot and fast and tasted good. Service was fine. I appreciate that they offer duck and dim sum, and don't use MSG in any of their foods.

Kiefer P.

Had to take this place off my favorites not because of the flavor but the lack thereof and some cooking that was done wrong and not under cooked. Let me explain. I ordered salt and pepper. First of all, it was bland, probably not enough of the salt and pepper mix. Then I ran into some "raw" batter on the chicken, but the chicken was cooked, and most of it was crispy my assumption is too much in the pot or not waiting for temperature to come back up. This is likely due to being in a rush. All in all, it wasn't inedible, but I have had better and expect better from my previous favorite Chinese restaurant.

Darren Y.

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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