{"id":23595,"date":"2011-03-10T19:24:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T03:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11395"},"modified":"2016-09-17T10:28:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T07:28:32","slug":"pure-sushi-japanese-bistro-and-sake-bar-eugene-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/pure-sushi-japanese-bistro-and-sake-bar-eugene-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Sushi (Japanese Bistro and Sake Bar) Eugene, OR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I passed a bunch of sushi places today, so, having had a craving for sushi for about a month, I did some research about which one within walking distance would be the best. The winner was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pureeugene.com\/\">Pure<\/a> on 5th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>This restaurant is located in a building with a number of other international restaurants. It overlooks a courtyard. The decor is interesting; the red feels very &#8216;Asian&#8217;, but the heavy wood and leather furniture felt German!<\/p>\n<p>I was seated promptly and ordered a pot of fragrant jasmine tea. The menu is huge to the point of being overwhelming, so I decided to go with a &#8216;combination&#8217; meal for $17.95. This got me:<\/p>\n<p>-a hearty miso soup, one of the best I have ever had;<\/p>\n<p>-a bowl of &#8216;black rice&#8217;, which is actually a pretty purple shade. Most of the negative comments about this restaurant refer to this rice, but I did not find anything wrong with it except, perhaps, that it doesn&#8217;t clump as well as sticky white. It has the texture of brown rice, but only a hit of its nutty flavour. The most descriptive thing I can say about it is yum!<\/p>\n<p>-3 pieces veggie (green bean, broccoli, and yam) tempura;<\/p>\n<p>-1 piece shrimp tempura;<\/p>\n<p>-one piece of a big round fried thing that looked like a hash brown but was pasty like yams and sweet like shrimp;<\/p>\n<p>-two pieces of small balls that were crispy on the outside and pasty on the inside that tasted vaguely like onion rings;<\/p>\n<p>-three large pieces of tuna sashimi, as red and sweet as kisses;<\/p>\n<p>-6 pieces California roll (striking with the &#8216;purple&#8217; rice);<\/p>\n<p>-a large chicken breast, sliced, grilled and basted in teriyaki sauce over cabbage<\/p>\n<p>Talk about rolling out of there STUFFED!<\/p>\n<p>There wasn&#8217;t a false note to the meal or the service. I was very impressed. Even if the food had just been &#8216;okay&#8217;, the meal would have been very good value. With it being as good and fresh as it was, it was excellent value. I highly recommend Pure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I passed a bunch of sushi places today, so, having had a craving for sushi for about a month, I did some research about which one within walking distance would be the best. The winner was Pure on 5th Avenue. This restaurant is located in a building with a number of other international restaurants. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1150,635,1037,5,3,16],"tags":[794,820],"class_list":["post-23595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eugene","category-north-america","category-oregon","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa","tag-restaurants","tag-sushi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}