{"id":433615,"date":"2025-12-08T16:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/433615\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T16:23:20","slug":"wus-wonton-king-on-the-lower-east-side-is-better-than-you-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/433615\/","title":{"rendered":"Wu\u2019s Wonton King on the Lower East Side Is Better Than You Remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/venue\/34511\/wu-s-wonton-king\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wu\u2019s Wonton King<\/a> has a vibe like it\u2019s been on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/maps\/best-restaurants-lower-east-side-manhattan-ny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lower East Side<\/a> forever, but it\u2019s actually been less than a decade since the restaurant greeted the neighborhood with its roast meats hanging from the window and its plethora of celebratory dishes, great for marking a festive occasion. In the meantime, the restaurant has transitioned from buzzy newcomer to reliable neighborhood staple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Wu\u2019s is a reliable option for <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/maps\/best-restaurants-for-big-groups-nyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">family-style<\/a> dining and celebrations, from New Year\u2019s Eve to Lunar New Year. The kitchen has an impressive variety of large-format dishes, like whole Peking duck and stir-fried conch, though they can get pricey: Call ahead to check the market price for items like chow chow-style crab. Bring a bottle or two along; the <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/maps\/best-byob-byo-nyc-restaurants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restaurant is<\/a> BYOB.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Wu\u2019s seats smaller parties together, sharing the larger banquet tables; regular diners are used to this and generally keep to themselves instead of making new friends, but solo diners can always bring a book for more of an illusion of privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wu\u2019s Wonton King has a vibe like it\u2019s been on the Lower East Side forever, but it\u2019s actually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":433616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,174767,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-433615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dining-reports","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115684875082685633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}