Pure Spice

(Hilary Sander)
By Matthew Korfhage

At Pure Spice, a little piece of heaven costs $2.85. At the Division Street Chinese spot's dim sum brunch, that's the price of delicate hand-pulled rice noodles as layered as filo, doused in vinegar-savory sauce and folded in with a garden of barbecue pork or shrimp or simple chives and scallions. It is also the price of three ha gow dumplings—delicate rice-noodle purses bursting with shrimp and chive flavor—and of four impossibly pork-packed pockets of shumai. In fact, everything on the front side of the menu costs $2.85, all of it solid. Split 10 trays as a pair, and you might never leave.

GO: 2446 SE 87th Ave., Suite 101, 503-772-1808, purespicerestaurant.com, 9:30 am-9:30 pm daily

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