Wusong Road

• Wusong Road makes the best tiki drinks in the Boston area.
• Not only are the drinks outstanding but the food is spectacular.
• Peking Ravioli, Panko Chicken Sliders, Zombie, and Mai Tai are all favorites.
• The menu does change so check back often for new additions.

It’s hard to tell if Wusong Road is a restaurant with great drinks or a bar with great food. After your third tiki drink you certainly won’t care either way. Downstairs is drop-in seating, where I spent my first night at the bar sipping on Painkillers, Mai Tais, and Saturns with my college roommate. The second floor takes reservations, so I came back with my family, ate more, and drank less.

Their drink menu is amazing. They have eleven different tiki drinks, from the classic Scorpion Bowl to the inventive Boston Tea Party. Additionally, you can buy the mug. I think this is at least in part a preventative move to stop people from stealing them, but cool nevertheless. I highly recommend the mai tai. I have had a lot of mai tais and the only one that comes close to being this good is the one at the Baldwin Bar. The Scorpion Bowl says it serves two on the menu, but they also make one for four if you are with a group. I don’t know if they will serve it to you if you are by yourself. You never know unless you ask.

You will definitely need something to eat with all these drinks. Start with some sliders, the Aloha Sliders are three mini cheeseburgers with caramelized pineapple and crispy onion. Or you can opt for the Wusong Bao with either bbq pork or panko chicken, these adorable little sandwiches look like pigs or chickens!

After that, try the Pork and Chive Dumplings, a classic but very good version of gyoza, or the popcorn chicken. I particularly like the hot & sour dipping sauce that comes with it. If you want something a little bigger, get one of the Jain Bing Roll-ups and a side of Sweet Chili Brussels Sprouts. The brussels are sweet and spicy with a light but addictive chili and honey dressing. The portion is huge. You could make a meal out of these brussels alone. The roll-ups come with lemongrass chicken, five-spice beef, or sweet chili shrimp wrapped in a scallion pancake with vegetable filling and more of the hot and sour dipping sauce. I recommend the shrimp.

Another shrimp dish worth trying is the taco. The Shao Kao Shrimp Taco has unbelievably plump shrimp with mango salsa in a flour tortilla. It’s one of the smaller items on the menu so order two. Don’t plan to share it. They also have dessert, not usually a meaningful part of an Asian meal. We tried the coconut bread pudding with the coconut ice cream add-on. There’s a lot more on the menu that I haven’t tried yet, but want to: spareribs, wings, crab rangoon.

The cocktails and food are so good I almost forgot to mention the atmosphere. It’s in the Conductor’s Building on the edge of Harvard Square. It’s an historic and very cool building. I can only imagine what the original employees of the Boston Elevated Railway would think if they stepped inside to see the Polynesian decor. My favorite piece is the Three Wise Monkeys statue at the top of the stairs leading to the second floor dining room, but I also enjoy their collection of tiki mugs.

I don’t have enough tiki bars in my life, but Wusong Road is helping to fix that problem. The food is great. The drinks are delicious. And I’m already thinking about when we can go back.

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Perhaps the best way to enjoy Wusong is at the bar with cocktails and some snacks. We recommend these three dishes. The Sambal Fries are seasoned with a blend including coriander, garlic, chili, lime leaf, and sichuan peppercorn, and served with banana ketchup and sambal aioli ($9.88). The Chicken Satay is a small bite, just two skewers of grilled chicken, but at the bargain price of $3.88. And best of all are the Maple Peking Ravioli, hand folded with maple smoked bacon, Runamok maple syrup, Duroc pork and Chinese chives, served in Zhenjiang chili vinegar. This dish is highly recommended.

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Another night at the Wusong Road Bar
Right now Wusong Road has a special Halloween menu with both special food and tiki drinks. The Spiced Skeleton was not only nicely balanced but came in a special Halloween tiki glass. Tom Yum Wings were outstanding, crispy but tender chicken and a delicious sour sauce with a hint of heat. The Wusong Bao Bun looks crazy on a green bun with googly eyes, but the General Tso fried chicken is seriously good. For Uncle Quan’s Fried Rice, which is served in a ceramic Chinese takeout container, we selected the char siu and chicharrones preparation. We finished off with a coconut bread pudding that blew my mind. So much bread pudding is just dry and flavorless. Not this one. I’d go in just for this dessert.

Wusong Road
112 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA

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