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Myers + Chang
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A dinner party is always a little disappointing. Especially if you’re no longer at a point in your life where dancing until 3am and then jumping in the neighbor’s pool is feasible (or even possible, since your foot’s been killing you lately). Sitting on someone’s sectional while they list the TV shows they’re currently streaming just doesn’t give you the same rush.
Adult dinner parties need to be just a little more exciting. They need better food, more creative drinks, and enough people crammed into a small enough space to make it feel like something interesting could happen. They need to be like Myers & Chang.
Myers & Chang, an Asian fusion restaurant in the South End, is the dinner party you wish you could throw. In a space that’s roughly the size of your two-bedroom apartment, with a kitchen that doesn’t look that much bigger, this place combines great drinks, better food, and a bunch of people who are having way more fun than they would be if they were sipping wine and making small talk about British period pieces.
Menu-wise, this place covers a lot of ground, tweaking Asian comfort foods in unexpected ways. You get real heat with the biang biang noodles, a sweet-savory combo with the lobster pan-roasted in ginger scallion sauce, and a little sweetness to wash it down in the form of a cocktail made with housemade pineapple vodka. It’s a lot of flavors bumping up against each other in a tiny dining room - the result of which is Boston’s best-smelling restaurant. This is an assertion we’re confident making because, until we walked in here, we’d never once considered who deserved that title.
So the next time someone suggests your group gets together at an apartment where someone’s new fiance is going to keep putting a coaster under your drink, take your friends to Myers & Chang instead. You’re not going to end up in the neighbor’s pool, but eating dumplings isn’t likely to get you arrested. Even when they’re as good as Myers & Chang’s.