Wok’s Up | The Best of Dublin, CA Series
Locally owned and operated by Ted and Annie Lee, Wok’s Up offers a unique dining experience that blends innovative Asian Cuisine with exceptional customer service. Their menu showcases a broad range of Asian cooking styles infused with a Western touch. Each order is freshly prepared and can be customized to suit any customer dietary preference or constraint. Ted and Annie take great pride in their dedication to researching new flavor fusions that will be enjoyable to their customers. They continually update their menus with healthful culinary creations that delight the senses like their new Strawberry Shrimp.
Ted and Annie opened Wok’s Up at the Dublin Corners Shopping Center in January 2006, because they were excited about Dublin’s location with respect to I-580 and I-680. Wok’s Up is beloved on Yelp and was recognized by Tri-Valley Herald as the Voted Best Restaurant and Waitstaff of 2006. Every Monday through Saturday, Wok’s Up offers a different Lunch Special item that includes soup, salad, and rice for $6.95. In appreciation of their many loyal customers over the years, Ted and Annie have also recently launched two great dine-in deals. For just $5, you can order two small beers to go with new offerings like the Masala Chicken Lo Mein. Also for just $5 per guest, you can order all-you-can-drink house sake to complement old favorites like the California Sunshine Chicken.
Wok’s Up has been an Around Dublin favorite long before we started the blog. It represents the kind of local restaurant the Around Dublin Team would like to see thrive in Dublin. As active members of the community, Ted and Annie have participated in many local fundraisers for the Dublin Unified School District and local events like Day on the Glen. We hope you will visit Ted and Annie there and experience the great food and hospitality for yourself.
Wok’s Up
4580 Dublin Boulevard
Dublin, CA 94568
(925) 828-9189
12:01 PM on October 20th, 2008
Great way to highlight some of our local businesses. John and Staff, have you tried Abba Italian Gourmet and Vin Pearl at Ulfterts? They are both family owned and operated, very nice people. Menus are limited in choice but are good. Too bad they are tucked in under the Escalator and are overlooked in a Chinese Business dominated center. Nothing wrong with the other Chinese owned businesses as our family go patronize all of them. If only Abba and Vin were in a different center they would do quite well and not forgotten as they are here.
12:13 PM on October 20th, 2008
Add Roy’s, Il Fornaio, Buca di Beppo, Spaghetti Factory, Market Broiler, Daphne’s (Pleasant Hill), Le Cheval (Walnut Creek), Slanted Door, Melting Pot, Wolfgang Puck’s, Pizza My Heart, Krung Thai to our wishlist for the Promenade or Grafton Plaza or anywhere in Dublin.
Maybe a Brazilian BBQ place like Samba in Las Vegas, thinking big here.
Hungry just thinking about it.
3:10 PM on October 20th, 2008
I’ll try out Wok’s Up now that I’ve been informed– thanks for the mini review John–
I can vouch for Vin Pearl too, good stuff! — Ulferts Center needs to do something about the bright flourescent lighting near that escalator are, it’s way too bright from inside the restaurants–
4:27 PM on October 20th, 2008
Hi Gordon – I’m glad that you enjoyed the Wok’s Up review…however, I can’t take credit for it. Jimmy Huang actually wrote the article and took the pictures.
Thx, JZ
4:35 PM on October 20th, 2008
John,
It is a great thing that you and your Staff are doing to highlight some our family owned businesses. In order to attract more we need to keep the ones already here in business.
10:01 PM on October 20th, 2008
I wholeheartedly agree with the high praise given to Wok’s Up. It has been my family’s favorite restaurant in Dublin since before we moved here from Pleasanton. My college student daughter calls their Sunshine Chicken her favorite dish from any restaurant, even better than the BBQ Chicken sandwich at the Red Tractor Cafe (and, for her, that’s high praise indeed!).
I love Wok’s Up cuisine so much that I had them cater my retirement/housewarming party in April and was thoroughly delighted with the results. I got nothing but the highest complements on the food from my 37 guests. The XO Beef was probably the biggest hit at the party. I think the official name of the dish is Stir-Fry Beef with Snow Peas in XO Sauce.
I’ve probably tried twenty or thirty different dishes at Wok’s Up and I’ve loved all of them except one. I’ve had their Honey Walnut Prawns twice and I’m sorry to say that both times the shrimp were a bit too chewy for my preference.
Try Wok’s Up the next time you are in the mood for Asian cuisine — their great food, stylish decor and incredibly friendly service will make you glad you did.
Tim Hall
Dublin
10:54 PM on October 20th, 2008
Hi Everyone,
Thank you for the positive feedback and your recommendations. The Around Dublin Team started the Best of Dublin, CA Series precisely because we wanted to showcase the great local restaurants and local businesses Dublin already has. With respect to Anonymous #1, the Around Dublin Team absolutely loves Abba Gourmet and had offered write a blog post on this hidden gem at the Ulferts Center. Unfortunately they declined to be featured. Please keep the recommendations coming in, and we will do our best to feature your favorite Dublin establishments. Thank you again.
1:56 PM on October 23rd, 2008
I had the orange chicken dish recently, and it was delicious. I definitely recommend Wok’s Up to all the blog readers.
12:08 PM on October 27th, 2008
I honestly have not been back to Wok’s up since it first opened. We were there within the first couple of weeks of their grand opening and food was not very well prepared.
It could be they were just working out the kinks as I only see positive feedbacks to this posting. Thanks to the poste me and my family will give it another shot as it sounds like they’ve come into their own.
As the saying goes, first impression is king. If it wasn’t for this blog my family and friends whom I told about this place after my first experience would have never come back.
8:46 PM on October 29th, 2008
another great local Dublin restaurant is Bangkok 101 – terrific Thai food
10:01 AM on October 30th, 2008
I agree on Bangkok 101.
1:45 PM on July 13th, 2009
What happened to Wok’s Up? It is gone now?
7:55 PM on July 13th, 2009
Hi Anonymous – the original owners sold Wok’s Up to another Bay Area restaurateur. They should be reopening soon. I was sad to see Ted and Annie sell Wok’s Up. However, I’m sure that the new owner will do a good job.
Thx, John Z.