Jasmine Chinese, Thai & Sushi

On Snow Street in Oxford, Alabama, Jasmine Chinese, Thai & Sushi has built a following as one of the city’s more ambitious Asian restaurants, blending Cantonese-style cooking with Thai favorites and a full sushi bar under one roof. The restaurant describes its approach as Cantonese-style cooking with an emphasis on preserving the natural flavor of the ingredients, using fresh ingredients prepared with less oil and lighter sauces, a philosophy reflected across its Chinese, Thai, and sushi menus alike.

The sushi program is run by Sushi Chef Denny, who brings more than six years of experience working as a sushi chef in both Miami and Oxford, and it includes rolls like the Tiger Roll and the Crunchy Philly Roll alongside a longer sushi and sashimi list built around items like salmon (sake) and tuna (maguro), organized into sushi starters, sushi entrees, hand rolls, cooked rolls, and raw rolls. The Chinese side of the menu runs through traditional entrees, fried rice, lo mein, chow mein, and mei fun, plus a chef’s special section for guests looking for something beyond the standard combination plates, with dishes like orange chicken, triple delight, and minced chicken lettuce wraps drawing repeat orders. Thai favorites go well beyond the Panang curry chicken that first put the kitchen on the map, with a coconut-based red curry built from carrot, eggplant, red bell pepper, chili pepper, and basil, a masaman curry finished with cashews and asparagus in coconut milk, a spicy basil dish tossed in the kitchen’s own sauce, pad thai, and a Singapore-style rice noodle dish sauteed in yellow curry; every entree comes with a choice of fried or white rice, with brown rice available for a dollar more.

The restaurant’s main dining room is backed by two private party rooms that together can seat up to 120 guests, giving the space what the restaurant calls an Asian-inspired atmosphere suited to date nights, family gatherings, and business meals alike, and making it a common choice for larger group gatherings, business lunches, and family celebrations in the Oxford area. Catering is available for banquets and larger events. A sushi bar anchors part of the dining room, letting guests watch rolls being prepared rather than eating in a strictly back-of-house kitchen setup.

Jasmine is open seven days a week, with lunch specials and happy hour pricing offered daily except Sunday, including standing promotions of 20 percent off sushi items and half-price alcohol during happy hour, though the restaurant’s website does not publish a detailed hour-by-hour schedule for each day. Guests planning a visit around a specific opening or closing time are better off calling ahead to confirm, particularly for late evening dining or holiday hours.

Appetizers cover familiar starters like egg rolls, spring rolls, edamame, crab rangoons, and steamed or fried pot stickers, alongside chicken and beef teriyaki skewers, salt and pepper calamari, and a combination appetizer platter that bundles several of those items onto one order; the kitchen makes a point of not using MSG in its cooking, and spice levels across the menu can be adjusted to taste. The chef’s specials section goes considerably further than the everyday entrees, with dishes like a seafood delight combining jumbo shrimp, scallop, crab meat, and lobster in a white sauce, a sha-cha triple of chicken, beef, and shrimp in a smoky chili sauce, a black pepper corn trinity, and a fantasy shrimp finished with honey walnut, alongside familiar plates like sesame chicken, general chicken, and happy family. Lunch specials run Monday through Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with roughly thirty dishes to choose from spanning Chinese, Thai, and seafood options, each served with a salad, an egg roll, and a choice of fried, white, or brown rice.

What distinguishes Jasmine from Oxford’s other Asian restaurants is the sheer breadth of its menu, spanning Cantonese Chinese cooking, a genuinely deep Thai menu, and a full sushi and sashimi program overseen by a dedicated sushi chef, rather than specializing narrowly in one cuisine. That range has made it a flexible choice for groups with different tastes at the same table, letting one diner order a Thai curry while another goes for sushi and a third sticks with a familiar Chinese-American entree. For anyone exploring Oxford’s Asian dining options beyond the well-known national chains along the retail corridor near Quintard Mall, Jasmine Chinese, Thai & Sushi offers a genuinely independent, family-run alternative with enough menu variety, and enough kitchen specialization behind that variety, to satisfy a wide range of tastes in a single visit.