On November 11, the eve of Dimple’s birthday, we had a little pre-celebration at home, and it was a good one. The Christmas tree was already up, a laptop was playing the Minions happy birthday song, and we sang along. In the middle of the table sat a big round box from Wok It Out Cubao, red lid and all, packed with the Medium Dimsum Platter. Eighty-six pieces. ₱1,678. The kids loved the xiao long bao. We like it — and we’re giving it 5 out of 5.
We had it as takeout, eaten at home, which felt exactly right for a birthday-eve night that already had a tree in the living room and family around a glass table.
The box is hard to miss: a wide, round carton with a red rim. Opening it felt a little like a party trick. Once the lid was off, the platter was packed in tight, tidy groups.
The menu lists exactly what was in our Medium platter, and it matches what we saw: 20 pork and shrimp siomai, 16 pan-fried pork dumplings, 20 prawn dumplings, 15 pork xiao long bao and 15 molten chocolate xiao long bao. That’s 86 in all.
The siomai were the yellow, open-top ones, some with a little orange on top. Next to them, a pile of golden, ruffled prawn dumplings. Then the pan-fried pork dumplings, with those nicely browned bottoms. The xiao long bao filled the rest of the box, and those were the ones the kids loved. We’re not going to pretend we can walk you through every filling. What we can say is we like it, and a mixed platter like this is a fun way to share a birthday-eve takeout.
There were little sauce cups and wooden forks, brown paper bags on the side, and plenty of reaching across the table. Nobody was being formal about it, which is as it should be.
Everyone else ate, but one of the kids was resting, unwell, and missed the dimsum, so the next batch is for her.
The printed price is ₱1,678, and the menu says that price is VAT inclusive. It also notes a 10% service charge for dine-in; this was takeout at home, so we’re just going with the platter price as printed.
So that’s our night: a pre-celebration on the eve of Dimple’s birthday, Minions on the laptop, a living-room Christmas tree, and a huge dimsum box we were happy we ordered. 5 out of 5. We’d get the Medium platter from Wok It Out Cubao again.
For another recent family food night, here’s our Hibachi Maginhawa unli teppanyaki review.