Decent food and humongous portions! A great place to eat Filipino (Chinese-style) if you can't make Filipino food at home or you're just lazy. I really like coming in and having the Chicken Mami soup (Chicken Noodle) with ad appetizer and my wife loves their Topsilog (Fried Beef, Fried Rice, Fried Egg). My family really enjoys their Pancit Miki Bihon (Pan fried noodles). And for dessert, don't forget to leave some room for their Halo-Halo (Shaved ice with beans, condensed milk, and ice cream) or Buko Pandan (Young coconut dessert)

I like eating at Pipin's. Excellent food. Reasonable price. Nice location.

I recommend this restaurant to my kapwa Filipinos who are visitng from the US. I am cautious about recommending this to other nationalities as this restaurant is not up to international standards yet. No ambience, poor service (filipino style), no consistency in quality.

I live probably 6 blocks away from PinPin's and so I often go here.
The place is right outside a busstop so it is very accesible though the place itself is pretty crowded and small so sometimes you have to wait for people to finish eating to get a seat.

The service of the waitresses was okay. It was not that good because they take a long time to attend to you. After you order, the food takes quite a while before you get it.

The food is awesome mostly due to the large portion servings you get, and the price is pretty cheap too. We always ask fro take out boxes because there's just so much that we can't finish the food. The sweet and sour fish is really good as well as their Bicol Express. One food I did not like was their "bangus bistec" or milkfish steak. It was served in a sizzling plate and looked really good but lo and behold, when I took a bite it tasted like "daing" and they just added the sauce.
That was my first time ordering that food from PinPin so I dont know if they just ran out of fish that day and decided to substitute "daing" (marinated sour fish) or they just really serve it like that but it was very sour and really weird tasting.
I love their leche flan because it is very sweet and tasty and a really good dessert.
All in all they have good food with huge portion sizes and cheap prices.

What Pinpin lacks in service, they make up for their authentic Filipino dishes!

It’s a common sight for customers to be waiting outside for a table even in unpleasant weather condition. The seating arrangement is tight as they are maximizing the use of their space.

If they could move to a bigger place and improve their customer service, I would go to Pinpin more often.

Hello there,

One of my fellow co-workers suggested this restaurant to me...been putting it off for the last month...so myself and a buddy of mine decided to check out Filipino food. Its a small restaurant across the street from Buy Low Foods. Parking was easy...just go to the rear for free 2 hour parking. We decided for 2pm lunch..just to avoid the lunch rush.(The last time I drove by there...hugh lineup at 5ish.) Got in and seated in no time. Service was solid..eventhough one the servers looked fried...Im guessing it was a hectic lunch hour or two. Ambiance...okay...nice pics of the fish market in the Phillipines. The FOOD...our order were Lumpia Shanghai (mini egg rolls), Inigaio Na Tagyang Ng Baka (chargrilled beef shortrib with a sweet garlic sauce), Sisig (pork with onion), and Pancit Canton (egg noodles with assorted veggies and meat). All were delicious especially the shortribs...smoky and sweet...the meat was fork tender!! The sisig was pretty good...super bacon flavor and taste..reminds me of the Chinese roasted pork but much finer in texture. My only complain..we did not have dessert...would have love to try the casava cake or Leche flan...oh well...definitely a next time. Our bill came up to $50 bucks with tip...and dogged bagged the rest for my dinner tomorrow.

The food and price is Great! but...

The restaurant is TOO SMALL - in need of a renovation for a large capacity of people to eat inside (frequent line-up crowds infront of the entrance door)

POOR service - the servers look unhappy with their jobs to help you, they need to smile more often! I dislike the fact how us customers have to bag our own left-overs isn't that a waitresses job?

everytime I've eaten at PinPin, I've had a great taste experience. The food is served family style, everyone gets a taste of each dish. We always order the Beef Short Rib, Sinigang with Hipon, Laing, and Lechon Kawali.

Of and for dessert we ALWAYS share halo-halo. A good thing about their halo-halo is that they serve it with ice cream AND UBE!!! yum yum!

PinPin is the kind of restaurant you'd go to if you want a good meal that will hit the spot without bruising your wallet. The lineup of people outside the door tells you something - I've never seen this happen at a Filipino restaurant. Admittedly the ambiance is a bit lacking, but who cares. You'll be so busy licking your plate that you won't even notice. The service is attentive, the food came quickly, servings were generous, and the food absolutely delicious. I can't wait to go back. (Tip: Go for the grilled platters).

So it was that time of year again, my friend's birthday and a new restaurant to try. This year's selection was Pinpin.

As always on our birthdays, we like to go all out so we ordered the lumpia (spring rolls, 12 mini ones), garlic rice, crispy pata, tadyang ng baka, sisig, bicol express, some eggplant salad, halo halo and the jello with coconut.

I thoroughly enjoyed the crispy pata, tender pieces of pork hock along with a great sauce that goes good with the rice. We were told that there would be an extra $1 charge to make it crispy, which was a little confusing since the menu did say crispy pata and not pata (so no idea how that works!). Lumpia was a good appy starter. The baka was tender with lots of sauce and very interesting taste. Bicol express was solid, goes good with rice but probably slightly too coconutty for me and didn't find it that spicy (I can handle spicy so this was kind of mild!).

Now for the ones that I think are over-rated. First, the sisig. What is this dish? Tiny little pieces of meat cooked on a hot plate with onions, really not that much flavour. Eggplant salad (can't remember the name) was bland. They give you this salty fish paste with it and I gave it a taste - UM NO THANKS! Halo halo, it was ok but honestly, rather go get a HONE DOW BING at Golden Oscar. They cheap out on the red beans and although big, didn't taste as good as the chinese drink. It also had these other beans in there that added no flavor to it. And then the recommendation by the manager, some dessert with shaved coconut and jello. According to her, better than the halo halo. Well let me say this, IT SUCKED. Had not taste, jello was not sweet, coconut was not sweet, and whatever else was in there was not sweet. Terrible thing to recommend to non flips.

Service - you have to ask to get.

Overall, worth a visit but not as AMAZING as everyone says it is. I gave it 2 and 3 because it is decent to solid in my opinion but not outstanding.

We stopped by to dine at a Pinoy / Filipino Pin-Pin Restaurant located in Vancouver August 19, 2006 . My wife's co-workers had been raving about the food there, especially the super-sized halo-halo.

This evening we had daing, sisig, sinigang and bicol express. The sisig was to die for, ie. deliciously crunchy and tasy. The Bicol Express was spicy yet bearable and also tasty. My daughter loved it. I think she inherited my love of hot spicy foods. Our sinigang was too lemony, as my wife remarked.

The waitress was somewhat friendly. Overall, the ambience was comfortable, almost home-like cozy. It's a small restaurant, but apparently it's popular. There were at least 15 people waiting outside when we came in at about 6:45pm, and there were around 8 people waiting when we left 1 hour later.

Yummy!