I'm always up for trying new restaurants especially in Vegas! This place was recommended to us by my aunt and uncle and I was excited to try out.
The menu here consists of various appetizers (ranging in prices from $5.99 to $12.99 and consisting of favorites such as lumpiang shanghai, chicaron bulaklak to non-traditional shrimp tempura and fish balls), noodles (all priced at $7.99 and include bihon, canton, miki, malabon and spaghetti) and beef, pork, seafood and vegetable dishes ($6.99 to $12.99 in price).
My party ordered a lot of seafood dishes and I am not a seafood eater so my review will mostly be on the non-seafood dishes that I tried.
I first tried the kare kare. Their oxtail kare kare is $12.99 and comes with oxtail cooked in creamy peanut sauce with beef tripe and veggies. The dish was small in size for $12.99! I liked that there were a good mix of veggies and the oxtail was pretty good as well but there seemed to just not be a lot in this dish. The portion size was small for the price.
The other dish I got try was a little bit of the shrimp tempura. I tried the veggies from the shrimp tempura and was fond of the batter that they had. It was slightly on the sweet side. This dish was also $12.99.
Lastly I got to try was the pork binaggongan with eggplant. This is lechon kawali sauteed in shrimp paste topped with fried talong. I normally don't eat shrimp paste but decided to just try this a little bit and it wasn't bad. The shrimp paste was not too strong in flavor and the lechon kawali was nice and crispy.
Tastewise the food was good but i think the dishes were fairly small for the prices. This place is kinda pricey and I would've expected a more generous portion.
As for drinks, I chose to get a sago gulaman. Theri sago gulaman came with a lot of different ingredients. It had baby sago and red and green gulaman. It was a very pretty drink with a decent amount of sago and gulaman but needed to be more sweet. It was a little on the bland side.
My first experience at D'Pinoy Joint was all in all ok.