J & J Szechuan Cuisine

food taste good. but service really bad. never come again after giving us food… wont come again…

My wife is Chinese and we eat at Chinese restaurants very often. This is our first time trying a Chinese restaurant in Las Vegas, however, as we are just passing though. We had a great meal tonight at J & J’s. We had a cumin lamb with cilantro dish that was the best I’ve ever had. The lamb was lean, the cumin was plentiful and there was just the right amount of hot. My wife must minimize her salt intake so the chef prepared a whitefish with tofu soup that was a delight for her. And we both appreciated the no salt version of their bitter melon with garlic. The melon was very fresh, not overcooked, and plentiful. We also had Szechuan cold noodles which we just inhaled. Very tasty. The restaurant is small and in a little strip mall. The interior is clean and well lit. The chef clearly knows his craft.

The first order is a little bit salty. When we asked for no MSG and less salt all the foods tasted amazing… and great .I like their food so much… the service is
, it worth to rate this place for four stars.

Great service — the witnesse was very helpful in explaining the dishes… and not to add — OMG THE FOOD WAS AMAZING… We ordered kung pao chicken, shrimp fried rice, green beans and to drink hot tea and Tsingtao… as for price — it was good for the amount of food and flavor… We will most definitely be back…

I mean this restaurant must buy a lot of stupid Unilocalers Don’t trust comment!!! It’s the worst Chinese food I have even taste in Las Vegas. 难吃到爆炸。

Food is awesome. Freshly made and its spiciness is always on point :) service is decent, even though our server does not speak perfect English. She is very attentive. For you all spicy food lovers, this is a must try place!

It’s terrible. All four of us had stomach after visiting this store. Not recommended.

Great Sichuan food only reason why I don’t give them 5 stars is bcz the only thing missing in the menu is salt pepper shrimp but the food is really delicious

Worst Szechuan food ever tried.
Food ingredient not fresh at all for water boiled fish and beef.
Cold appetizer also not fresh.
Don’t fool your customers.

cold plate seemed a little too old, but overall taste is okay. Waitress pretty friendly.

Disappointed to say the least. The food had been precooked, not very warm and it was greasy. Wow, this place was sub par. Lots of other choices in the neighborhood.

I won’t come back again! The vegetables were far over season. $ 22 for one little tiny hot pot?

Our first visit was 3 years ago and we were only mildly impressed. We became huge fans of Yunan Garden instead. But Yunan Garden has recently become very mild and also expensive. When you order an item like Boiled Fish in hot sauce I want to at least feel a little burn. Maybe some tourists still find it spicy but its just not authentic. So long story short, we revisited J & J last week and were blown away. The Boiled Fish was spot on and had my eyes watering! Oh, authentic Szechuan, I missed you so much! The mushroom hot pot was a great side dish, very impressed. We will be back! The great service this time was unexpected as well, I’d even call it tourist friendly! :)

Oh My Goodness. Thank God I talked my husband into trying Szechuan. This place is gem! I love their cold appetizers (beef and chicken is
), we love the kung pao chicken, mushroom hot pot, the spinach stir fry. The second visit we tried the deep fried intestine and the usual appetizers, still amazing! The third visit was still pretty epic. As someone who worked in the customer/​retail field, I always truly believed in giving the best service besides having the quality of food. Our servers, remembered us and took care of me and my husband, always checking if we’re enjoying our food. Authentic food, great service — we’re regulars for sure. :)

So I wasn’t hungry when I dropped in to visit my friend at his storein Chinatown. But it was lunch time, and they were craving this lamb hotpot that they said was really big and good from this Chinese restaurant I don’t know about by their Chinese name.
The restaurant turned out to be J & J Szechuan Cuisine, which I had bookmarked to try their lunch specials earlier this year. The interior of the restaurant looks and feels really vintage (not in a good way). But from experience, I know some of the best Chinese food are served at this hole-​in-​the-​wall type restaurants. After we were seated and handed our menu, my friends proceed to order the Lamb Hot Pot (which they said was off the menu). Sounds good. I love the whole secret menu concept.
After a fair amount of time has passed and we have completely demolished the appetizers and the Cold Noodle we ordered, the waitress finally brought out the hot pot. The reaction from my friends was that this was not what they were served on their previous visit. The portion is a lot smaller (as in about half of what they were served the last time). So instead of it being a hearty large portion that could be split with 3 people, it was just enough to accommodate 2 people at the most. It was a good thing that I was not hungry to begin with. The noodle was also cooked so much that you can’t even pick it out with a chopstick, as it has pretty much been cooked to mush. They spoke to the waitress and asked why this did not look like what they ordered previously, but the waitress just argues back saying we do not remember what we ordered the last time. Considering the portion is less than half of what my friends ordered the last time. And he took pictures of what he ordered from his previous visit. I highly doubt that. Smh.
When they asked if it can be returned, since it was so different from what was served before, the waitress just said no!
To add insult to injury (or is it injury to insult? I wonder which is worst) one of my friend found a random string from who knows what in the Lamb Hot Pot. We should have taken a picture of it first. Because when we showed it to the waitress, she dismissed it as just a piece of noodle (It is right there on our table. Try eating it!). Then she said it was the string from the noodle package and just picked it up without offering an apology. Yeah, that was about the only smart thing she did. Get rid of the evidence!
So inconsistency in what is served, even if it is a secret off the menu item, is already a big red flag for me to never return here again. But the fact that a foreign object was found in the food and the customer received the «No F Given» attitude when confronted about it, is just the final nail in the coffin.
So yeah, even by Asian/​Chinese restaurant standards, this place has crap service and subpar food. Thus probability of return is less than 0.1%. But in the event of a zombie apocalypse, I will bookmark this place since it will still be low on other people’s list of places to scavenge for food.
1 star, because half stars are not supported on Unilocal

Their food may be know for authentic! Let it be known, the waitress barely understood us. The bathroom was beyond filthy, made the mistake of going in between waiting for food and lost my appetite! The rest of my group enjoyed the food. Wait was Twenty minutes, food took forty minutes to be served. No one gave us menus, if you don’t speak Chinese and you don’t enjoy blood, guts, and tripe there is not much to choose from because waitress, staff speaks no English!

Not only do they have hotpots here, they can even accommodate a takeout order! For under $ 20, you can feed two full-​size adults a spicy, seafood-​laden meal. Would suggest an extra side of rice, though.
The crawfish with cucumber (?) was what we got– can’t remember the actual name but we easily had over a pound of crawfish. They’re not in season so they were small and not the freshest, but the dish itself was a good combination of chilis, seafood, and veggies– the sauce was addictively spicy and delicious.
Would go back for one of their popular lamb dishes, but would choose to dine in. Though they can do takeout, it’s not the best way to experience the cuisine. But hey, if you’re in a crunch…

Tried this place out after reading an article on Thrillist about the 10 best Chinatown restaurants:

I ordered their bestselling sautéed spiced lamb, and it was just average good. It was very spicy, so they definitely got their Szechuan on, but I was a little disappointed with the portion. It felt like a lunch-​sized portion, but I paid the full dinner price. Oh, and the rice was extra — really?
I would have to say that I agreed with most of the articles picks for best Chinatown eateries, at least the ones I have been to. J&Js was my first attempt at the ones I have not tried, and I am already disappointed.
Not only do I think J&Js is not the best Szechuan in Chinatown, but its bestselling sautéed spiced lamb is not even the best Szechuan spiced lamb dish in Chinatown (that honor has to go to Yunnan Garden).
I sure hope the rest of the list is not as far off.

It’s tough to find authentic szechuan food in the US, but it’s definitely getting more popular. J&J IS authentic szechuan, but it’s just not good szechuan.
We ordered 4 different dishes; the boiled lamb in hot pot, the pork intestines with hot peppers, the pork blood and bean sprouts in hot pot, and a cold dish of beef and tripe.
The boiled lamb and the cold dish were the best dishes; both were decently done, but not spectacular. The flavor was okay, the quality of the lamb and beef were good, and the portion was right. It’s what you would expect of a quality szechuan place.
The pork intestines with hot peppers was a bad dish. The intestines were properly cooked, but there was ZERO flavor with the dish. It was as if the intestines were just deep fried and then thrown on top of hot peppers and not even stir fried with the rest of the ingredients.
The pork blood and bean sprouts in hot pot was just all over the place. The flavro was fine, but the pork blood was not good. It was low quality and overcooked. Then also within the dish were slices of bologna. BOLOGNA. YES. WTF!!! Why on earth would anyone put bologna in this dish as a filler? I have no clue… plus it wasn’t mentioned on the menu.
All in all, this place actually isn’t terrible, but it’s definitely not what I would call good. The service is actually good, and our waitress was quite accommodating. However, for szechuan food I really don’t care about the service and décor as much as I do about the food. Really it should be 2.5 stars, but I can’t give it a 3.
Do yourself a favor and go to Yunnan Garden, a place that’s much better.

Definitely underrated and unknown among Unilocal with only 22 reviews as of Mar 2014.
I visited J&J a good 4 – 5 years ago and now recently returned. I prefer Japanese and Thai when I eat Asian or if it s Chinese, I prefer southern food but the Szechuan spicy hot pots are delicious.
Sometimes you just need some msg kick! The spicy chicken is really good here. It’s salty, spicy, and MSG-​y. If you don’t like chicken on the bone you won’t like this dish but I’m like a dog chewing and sucking on the bone getting every spicy salty MSG drip out.
The spicy hot pots with lamb, beef, or shrimp is always a good staple and I always order some variation. You will need 2 rounds (big ass bowls family style) to curb the burn.
I left and had to drink lots of water but it was worth it. Come check out the under appreciated J J!