Asian Fusion
37-05 31st Ave. (bet. 37th & 38th Sts.) New York City, NY 11103
718-626-8888
Website: www.jjsfusion.com
“That dish might have seemed more at home on the menu at J. J.’s Fusion Kitchen and Sushi Bar on 31st Avenue. A little more than a year ago J. J. and Richard Lin transformed J. J.’s Grand Tofu, the take-out noodle shop they had run for six years, into J. J.’s Fusion Kitchen and Sushi Bar. The new room is cozy, with mustard-yellow walls and bamboo scrims between tables, and the only evidence of its previous incarnation is a phone that rings often and loudly.
On a recent night a table of older Japanese customers shared an enormous tureen of noodle soup and the whole red snapper steamed with ginger and scallions. Younger tables ordered from the extensive menu of maki, or designed their own, which the Lins encourage. We gravitated toward their more electric house combinations, like the terrific, buttery hamachi with a fiery, yuzu kosho-spiked oil and sliced fresh jalapeño chilies, and a plate of raw tuna slices, interleaved with paper-thin half-moons of tart green apple, drizzled with a light wasabi-scented cream.” – The New York Times review