TJ Filipino Cuisine — Restaurant in Pearland

First i wanted to say thank you to the regular cowboy that comes here frequently. Thanks for the birthday lunch buffet. I dont know you but have a kind heart and bought me lunch and i will pay it forward. . I don't see filipino buffet often and it's a regular weekday and weekend all day buffet is wow. Also as of Feb 2024 it is 15.99 for lunch buffet. . So I went on a Tuesday during lunch time. I didn't know what to expect but I did make a phone call and make sure they are open and see what time they serve lunch buffet. They say 10am. I was happy. . So I went inside and they told me I can just go get the plate. So I went straight to the buffet and looked at the options. I started with small portions to taste the meat and flavors and textures. I knew what I was eating, it's just that I need to make sure it is fresh and not stale or been sitting in the warmer for too long. Everything was fresh around 1130am. . I loved the different variety they had. Now onto what I liked. . Pancit - I love the vermecielli noodles. I loved the flavor it was savory. Also I like the cabbage inside and veggies. . Loved the milk fish sour soup. It was appetizing and had the right amount of vinegar in it. I mixed the other veggie soup, and I couldn't stop eating the bok choy, okra, and green beans in the soup next to the milk fish sour soup. . Loved the little lumpia, they were so flavorful and ate a hand full of those. . They dinaguan aka chocolate meat, my co worker makes the best but this one was good too. 👍 . Loved the sautéed choyote veggie mix. It was a great colorful healthy veggie dish with bitter melon, kombucha squash, and other veggies. . Desserts loved they had cassava cake which is coconut in it. Loved the purple sticky rice which was lightly sweetend. Loved the fresh fruits such as oranges, cantelope, and pineapples. . Overall this place is a great introduction for people who likes trying new things or felipino food. Imagine you went to a wedding or a family friend house and you get to eat all of this without going to an event. I wish we have this back home in sac. Hope this helps and thanks for reading. Have a...

Came here for the first time with my wife. We were in the area and we heard so much about this Filipino buffet so we decided to give it a try. I don’t remember all the names of the food items, but there were a lot of varieties. This was my first Filipino buffets and it isn’t expensive at all considering Filipino food being pretty expensive in general. I had about 12 different food items to consume and there were a few more other choices. They also have a little dessert and fruit area. They sell some food items to-go at the counter and they sell Halohalo separately. Their Halohalo was a bit small for $7, but it was very delicious. Their buffet which starts at 1130am, is only lunch and dinner. They also serve breakfast, but it is not a buffet. The drinks are not free, but the refills are. Definitely recommend to come here if you’re ever in the Pearland area. The only thing I’d say that was bad was the refill of of food is pretty slow so you’re sometimes waiting there for the food. It gets kind of bad when there is a line because everyone is grabbing a lot of each item.

There is a lot of parking. The staff are friendly and service is on point. They have a karaoke area where people can sing and/or there are entertainers. They have lots of tables to...

This was a bummer for me. My husband was being considerate and took me here because I was talking about wanting some dinaguan. They close at 7pm, we arrived at 5:30. When we walked in you could tell the kitchen was closed. There was 1 scoop of pancit left, the pork adobo was just the juice and bones, the only thing full was the pinakbet. The karekare was tasteless which was shocking. There was one slice of cassava cake left. The food is one thing but you could tell they wanted us out. They started pulling the food at 6:30, the turned a couple lights off, they even pulled the trash bag out, we were finishing up but as a filipino who lives by "kaon na!" I have never experienced an inhospitable filipino establishment before. I wouldn't recommend then to anyone wanting to try filipino food for the first time as that experienced would probably turn them off. Because the food had been sitting there for a while most of the meat was dried out and chewy. If you do go I would recommend going early whenever the food is fresh. Not a...