I always thought Pancake House International (PHI) only serves pancakes, drinks and some light snacks. However, recently I was invited for a food review at Pancake House International (PHI), Quill City Mall and to my surprise their menu has quite a variety of food. As we sit down to place our orders, the management of Pancake House International recommended several of their Philippines’s speciality dishes known as Deboned Milkfish. Apparently, apart from pancakes, they’re equivalently popular with these speciality Philippine’s dishes as well.
For drinks, we ordered the following coffee – Vienna Coffee & Latte.
Some of us opted for non-coffee and frosties drinks such as Hot Chocolate, Cucumber -Green Mango and Vanilla Milkshake.
While, we enjoyed our drinks, the first entree to arrive was Best Taco In Town which includes ingredients such chicken chunks, lettuce tomato, onion and cheese roll into a crispy taco shell served with tuna macaroni salad. This dish comes in 2 pieces and if you’re looking at something light, this is really fulfilling. A bite of the taco reveals its crunchiness and the flavoursome tomato and oozing cheese complement each other very well. Definitely a ‘MUST TRY’!
Next, we had the Classic Pan Chicken with homemade gravy served with Garlic Rice. The garlic rice was fragrant and even though the chicken is crunchy but fear not it’s not oily. Together with this dish, we also had Asparagus Cayenne Soup. Creamy in texture with a dash of unique spiciness, which I really loved.
Following dishes are the infamous Deboned Milkfish, we tried Smoked Golden Tinapa (Smoked Golden Milkfish) which is deboned milkfish smoked to perfection. I was caught off guard with the salmon like taste and was hard pressed not to finish the entire dish. Along with this, we also had Daing na Bangus (Pickled Deboned Milkfish) marinated in a special sauce and pan fried to golden brown. Both of these dishes comes with garlic rice and mango salsa. I highly recommend both of these dishes and do note there’s a dip sauce of garlic and lime juice which is really fantastic.
After this, we had Beef Tapa (Stri-Fried Australian Strip Loin) and Southern Maple Chicken. Beef Tapa is marinated, stir-fried tender Australian Strip Loin served with garlic and mango salsa. While, Southern Maple Chicken is sweet maple-glazed chicken and Caesar Salad served with a choice of garlic or golden crispy waffle (we opted for crispy waffle). I would recommend the Beef Tapa for its sweet and tangy marinated sauces and extremely tender beef. Southern Maple Chicken is also unique but a tad too sweet for me.
Burgers and sandwiches are on our list next. Here, we have House Burger which is beef patty with mushroom, chicken strips, lettuce and tomato on toasted bun. Club Sandwich a triple-decker made of chicken strips, lettuce, egg slices, tomato and cheese. Both items are served with french fries and salad on the side.
Finally, it’s time for pancakes and waffles; and choices are aplenty. We kick start with Waffle Foldover – golden brown crispy waffle with peanut butter, 2 big scoop of vanilla ice cream filled with candy-coated choco bites on the inside.
Blueberry Pancake which is fluffy and served with butter and maple syrup. Next, Luscious Lemon Pancake Peak which is a stack of mini pancakes with cream cheese filling in-between, served with lemon-flavoured syrup and topped with lemon zest. This is mouth-watering delicious for the cream cheese and lemon combination truly lights up my palette, a ‘MUST TRY’ too!
Last but not least, is Halo-Halo – Shaved ice with milk, sweet corn, sweet potato, sweetened banana, fresh jackfruit strips and topped with homemade custard. Mixed all the ingredients together and you expect it to be extremely sweet. However, it’s the opposite as the flavours complement each other really well and not too sweet at all.
I truly enjoyed my meal at Pancake House International (PHI) and my perception of the restaurant has forever changed. Not only do they serve fluffy pancakes, their Philippine’s speciality dished are deliciously good as well. Head on over to Pancake House International and give it a try yourself today. If you need further information, do visit their website
Nice looking pancakes. Tried the place once, but there’s so many other cafes serving
pancakes as well, it’ll take some time before I roll back to their joint for a 2nd try.
ya sometime que is a nuisance
Rarely find fish meal, except salmon fish. Gonna check it out next time if I’m travel to KL 😉
haha we all klang ppl talk like KL very very far
Didnt know that they have so many types of asian and western delights now 😀 Definitely worth checking out someday
Xoxo, FiSh @ http://www.ohfishiee.com
yeah yeah
It is a revelation to me too that Pancake House offers more than pancakes. I love your shots. You really have an eye for photography.
ah…i still learning
I never try Halo-Halo before and it looks so tempting. Time to plan my visit to Pancake House again soon.
next time we go together again
wow so yummy food and nice place to dine. Shall tell my dear of this place, we love to eat.
yeah do go check it out
Wash look so nice!! Whr is the location again? Sorry not from KL.
Quill City Mall, KL. do check their website http://pancakehouseinternational.com.my
gosh, makes me hungry
hehe…that’s the whole point
yummmmz .. making me hungry now
LOL…reading your blog always makes me hungry
Never try Philippines’s dishes before.
I would love to try their house burger and Halo-Halo. Halo-halo looks seducing!
ya who thought the Philippines dishes was that mouth watering
oh yum yum yum … i wish to try Blueberry pancake and Halo-halo !
got several location, can always check it out 😀
yes to taco’s and hot chocolate! drools!
oh..you’re a taco fan
Good, Pancake House improved food and drink.. Long time I don’t eat it. Last time I eat the Pancake dessert only, they don’t give the choices so much. I glad that they got give different food and coffee, attract more custromers come to eat lunch, and dinner, can!
ooh…they’ve improved a lot now
I think i will enjoy that australian strip loin. Beef lover here.
you selected the same thing like my husband
the waffle foldover look so tempting!
the ice cream right hehe
Ohhh pancake pancake i love pancake!! I would like to give it a try
still recommend Philippines dishes although the pancake is equally yummy
Oh~~~ i love the desert~~~ the food are so beautiful~~~
Halo Halo is very good
Waffle looks so fresh and crispy and others dishes are tempting too.
if free drop by there to try it out 😀
hmm…how’s the milkfish tastes? Am tempting to try it as I am a fish lover 🙂 That’s the reason why I like to draw fishes 😛 ha..ha..
tastes yummy, highly recommend both dishes
Woooot! So tempting!!! I would LOVEEE to dig some pancakes right now
feel free to check the place out
HAHA For the name, I expected the whole food review to be pancakes only. I wanna try the fish if it really tastes like salmon!
seriously it does..taste like salmon. go try
Been there before with my friends, love their foods, so delicious and has a lot of varieties 🙂
ya, didn’t know they had so much variety
I would love to try their waffles over pancake, look so sinful~
try their Philippines dishes, you wont regret it
Wa another worth to go cafe in town! The Halo Halo dessert looks yummy! omg i love all the pancakes too!
yeah 😀
carol your photography is amazing, I SHOULD NOT LOOK AT THESE! they are making me tempted sigh
your food also same mer
Hey! I’m Filipino! Where is this place? Yeah I love Pancake House back in PH. I miss the beef tapa!
you can find it at quill city mall. check out the website here:http://pancakehouseinternational.com.my/