Pin Pin Restaurant

The go-to place for Filipino cuisine in Vancouver; many items in the menu, including vegetarian dishes, meat and fish entrees, noodles and desserts; reasonably priced and with plenty of paid parking at the back area.

Food was great and tasted wonderful. We ordered a bunch of food to share, Oxtail Kare Kare, binagoongang baboy and crispy Pata. Bit pricey but I guess you pay for the quality. The seating was quite uncomfortable as it had tears and tape on it but all okay apart from that. Nice business ran by good people. Great community here.

I had the most horrible Filipino food at Pin Pin. I ordered takeout (oxtail Kare Kare and 2 fresh lumpia). It was my mom’s first time trying Filipino food and after her experience at Pin Pin, she said she will never try Filipino food again. The oxtail and vegetables had no flavour and it seemed like the cook just dunked them boiled into the sauce while the fat from the oxtail went into another dish to save money. The peanut sauce also didn’t have peanut flavour, the bok choy was not cooked enough and had a bleach taste to it and the tripe was too soft and overcooked. The kare kare was ridiculously expensive — at $30 without rice (we added the spaghetti from home as pictured). It should be thrown in the trash. The fresh lumpia also tasted weird. Altogether, we spent almost $50 on the horrible food. I haven’t been to Pin Pin in years and remembered the food tasting a lot better. Either they changed the cook or I had super low expectations of Filipino food back then. When I complained to the server on the phone, she made no compensations. What a huge disappointment. The food was pure awful and I would not recommend this restaurant to anyone. I would give this restaurant 0 stars if I could.

To summarize, the food tastes great, the portion is big and the price is reasonable. Pin pin restaurant is an authentic Philippine restaurant. For those who like to have a little adventurous dine out, pin pin restaurant can be a great choice. Love the crispy pata. The portion is really big, enough to eat for a family of 4. They cut the meat and skin to little pieces, you can just take it by the fork and eat it in pieces. Skin is really crispy, and the meat is perfectly cook. Pancit bihon is also our family favourite. The taste is really amazing. Lots of flavour and the glass noodle cooks perfectly. Vegetables and the meat all mixed together, a little bit oily, but that is the nature of the dishes. We also have squid for the main menu. It cooks perfectly and tastes sweet from the squid. The squid can be cold really fast, just make sure you asked the server to re heat it if its get cold or eats it faster. After all the main items, we choose halo as our dessert. Ice cream with few toppings, not too sweet which is great for us. Service is amazing, the server is helpful and friendly. We were in the restaurant 40 minutes before they closed, and they still allowed us to dine in and allowed ua to finished our meal. We have a great experience in Pin Pin restaurant, we will surely be back again with more people to dine. This place is great to dine in with more people so you can try more from the menu.

Delicious food and lovely service! A must-try and highly recommend!

Went here yesterday and today but apparently it’s closed yet on Google Maps it says they’re open. It’s frustrating how they don’t consider how inconvenient for commuters like me just to see that they’re not open. This has happened a few times before as well and it’s frustrating. They need to consider updating their hours if they plan on closing on certain days.