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Asian fusion is a deliberate blending of cooking styles rather than a single cuisine on its own, mixing, for example, Japanese technique with Southeast Asian flavours, or combining Chinese, Thai and Korean elements on one menu, sometimes alongside Western presentation or ingredients. This sets it apart from a restaurant like a Japanese or Thai restaurant that stays within one country's culinary tradition, and also from the broader Asian restaurant category, which tends to present separate cuisines side by side rather than actively combining them into new dishes.
An Asian fusion restaurant builds dishes that intentionally cross cuisines, a Korean-Mexican taco, a Japanese-Peruvian ceviche, rather than offering a straightforward Chinese menu next to a Thai one. The approach depends heavily on the individual chef or restaurant's creative direction, so the specific combinations vary a lot from one place to the next.
Across London's 4 asian fusion restaurants in our directory, the highest concentration is in Hammersmith and Fulham (1), Richmond upon Thames (1), Westminster (1), Kensington and Chelsea (1).
Expect inventive, often quite specific dishes rather than familiar standards, since the whole point of the format is combining elements in new ways. Presentation tends to be more restaurant-style than a casual Asian restaurant, and menus are often shorter and more curated.
Seafood features often in Asian fusion cooking, since several of the cuisines commonly drawn on, Japanese, Thai, coastal Chinese, all have strong seafood traditions of their own, giving fusion chefs plenty of raw material to reinterpret in dishes like fusion sushi rolls or fusion-style ceviche.
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An Asian restaurant typically offers separate dishes from different Asian cuisines on one menu, while an Asian fusion restaurant deliberately blends techniques and ingredients from multiple cuisines into new combined dishes.
It's a different goal rather than a lesser one. Asian fusion isn't trying to replicate one country's traditional cooking exactly, it's deliberately creating new combinations, so it's best judged on its own terms rather than against a traditional single-cuisine menu.
We list 4 across London, with the largest concentration in Hammersmith and Fulham (1 restaurants). Use the filters above to narrow down by borough or price.
