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    4.2 (20 reviews)
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    Thanks for the awesome catering experience and so delicious food. A very successful Birthday celebration.
    Carlos M.

    Great food! Clean restaurant, home made authentic filipino food. Makes you feel like you're back in the Philippines.

    Chicken adobo, pork adobo, and pancit noodles.
    Robert S.

    Pacific Island Kitchen rocks my socks. It's part cafeteria serving Filipino food, part market selling Filipino groceries, and all delicious. There's no menu to order from. Instead, you walk up to a counter that looks like something you'd find at Chipotle or Luby's. You go down the line pointing at what you want and then you pay. There's a small seating area--perhaps about four or five tables max. It's usually not busy at any particular time, so finding a spot to eat is rather easy. I've primarily only had the pork adobo, chicken adobo, and pancit noodles as I'm not brave enough for the fish yet (nor would I know how to eat the fish in the way it's prepared--I'll get there some day!). What I've had to-date is tasty--and I end up leaving my plate completely empty. The market is also awesome. Before or after you eat, you can browse a laundry list of Filipino groceries. Prawn chips? Check. Banana sauce? Double check. Skyflakes? Yup. And all other sorts of interesting food you won't find at the major grocery stores in the area. In all, this is one of my favorite places to dine at whenever I'm in town. Will definitely continue to go here.

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    Thomas S.

    Part Filipino minimart and part mini Filipino cafeteria is this business. This review deals with only the cafeteria side of the business. For $8, one can get a combo plate of one starch and two meats/veggies sides. For starch, the choices are white rice or pancit. The meat/veggie choices varies daily. On our visit, we went with the pancit/bitter melon with chicken/pork adobo combo. The pancit was very good, better than some of the Filipino eateries in Houston. The other two choices were average. The owner and his sole employee were very friendly. We gave four stars for the friendly folks, acceptable price, and decent Filipino foods. Anyway, this is the only game in town. There is no other Filipino eatery in Harlingen.

    This was the plate I ordered, kare kare, lumpia, and white rice. Masarap!!

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    Food is fantastic! Go early, food runs out . Adobo, lumpia and pansit are my favorite

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    I don't think ive done 5 stars in a long time. well deserved! food and atmosphere is great!

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    I really like this store. There's not a lot of places like this in the valley. Good food too

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    There are little to no Filipino places here in the valley and if you want to try some good food come here.

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    I know it's the first few days of being open, but staff has a lot to learn to check off a great…read moreexperience. I ordered the combo #2 and I did not receive my jalapenos and onions. The corn tortillas were cut down the middle like they used a knife to open the package. Rice was bland and had no flavor. Lines were long to order and you pretty much order everything on your own. Make sure to read the menu carefully because everything you want is on there I was told. For example if you do not tell them to cut or quarter the whole bird, it will be whole. Last error, was not being told about choosing a free dessert with a purchase of $15. While waiting for my order I overheard them offering a free dessert to a customer because they had a promo offer. Don't think I will be back. There are better places to go to get treated like this.

    This is horrible! Me and my daughter came here hungry looking for some good chicken, they barley…read morehad any at the hot-grab-and-go. The ones they did have where only thighs and they looked pretty old, next to the grab and go was a Flamin chicken. This restaurant looked promising with having good chicken displayed. When I went to go pay I asked for a full chicken. We got the chicken, and payed an outrageous 10 dollars. We walked out and as soon and as I felt the bag it felt small. We where missing parts, it was disgusting and dry, dry like leather, it had burnt parts but not the good type of burn like bacon. The type of burnt that makes you visibly gag. Definitely not worth the price, service, or drive. They did have other chicken that looked good but for some reason we got the bad chicken. Maybe the good chicken was only for display. Who knows anymore! Not risking it for the vomit and bad after taste.

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