Eats
Junzi Kitchen is noodling around, humbly
BY GABE HERMAN
Junzi Kitchen is a fast-casual restaurant
that has quickly become a popular
staple in the Village by serving
quality Northern Chinese cuisine with
locally sourced ingredients. Last summer,
it opened its Bleecker St. location,
at the corner of Sullivan St.
This is the third Junzi, in total. The
fi rst opened in 2015 in New Haven, Connecticut,
near Yale University. So far, all
of the eatery’s spots are near university
campuses. Another one is in Morningside
Heights near Columbia University,
and now this Village one is near New
York University. A new location at Bryant
Park is set to open this spring.
Chef Lucas Sin is originally from
Hong Kong and opened his fi rst restaurant
there when he was 16. While
attending Yale and studying cognitive
science and English, he ran restaurants
out of his dorm on the weekends.
Sin’s culinary experience also includes
time in Japan, Seattle and New York. In
addition to chef, he is also the culinary
director of Junzi Kitchen. Along with
the everyday menu items, like noodles
and bings — a fl at type of bread — he offers
an after-hours menu every weekend
with “funkier, more indulgent” items,
according to Junzi’s Web site. These include
fried chicken, instant noodles and
“juice box cocktails.”
Sin also runs a monthly chef’s table,
where he creates special fi ve-to-sevencourse
tasting menus based on different
types of Chinese cuisine. These are
exclusive events that are referral-only
and reservation-only. Past themes have
included Chinese-Dominican cuisine,
Italian-Chinese cross-sections, and
“14th-century imperial Chinese food
therapy.”
“Junzi” is a Chinese word meaning
“a person who is humble, thoughtful
and open to new ideas,” the restaurant’s
Web site notes. “For us, striving to be
a junzi is the guiding principle for everything
we do: from how we make our
food to how we relate to the world.”
All vegetables that go into dishes are
hand-selected from local suppliers, including
green cabbage, sweet potatoes
and long beans. The menu’s main features
are bings and noodles, including
thinner spring noodles and knife noodles,
which are wider and wavy.
Noodle sauces include tomato egg
and furu (fermented bean curd) sesame,
A spicy sesame noodle bowl at
Junzi Kitchen.
while bing sauces include garlic
chili and roasted sesame.
There are also many meat and vegetable
toppings to choose from, including
braised beef shank, seared chicken
thigh, king oyster mushrooms, griddleseared
tofu, and pickled daikon, a type
of Chinese radish.
Bing dishes generally go for about $7
or $8, and noodle dishes are in the $10-
to-$12 range. There are gluten-free and
vegan options. For more information,
visit www.junzi.kitchen.
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