Manhattan's Chinatown is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan,New York City,bordering the Lower East Side to its east,Little Italy to its north,Civic Center to its south,and Tribeca to its west. With an estimated population of 90,000 to 100,000 people,Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere. Manhattan's Chinatown is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves. The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City,as well as one of twelve in the New York metropolitan area,which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia,comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017.
99 Ranch Market is an American supermarket chain owned by Tawa Supermarket Inc.,which is based in Buena Park,California. 99 Ranch has 58 stores in the U.S.,primarily in California,with other stores in Nevada,Oregon,Washington,New Jersey,Texas,Maryland,Massachusetts,Arizona,and Virginia. The company also started offering shopping via its website in 2014. In February 2021,the company also launched their mobile app for grocery delivery.
Little Saigon is a name given to ethnic enclaves of expatriate Vietnamese mainly in English-speaking countries. Alternate names include Little Vietnam and Little Hanoi,depending on the enclave's political history. To avoid political undertones due to the renaming of Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City,it is occasionally called by the neutral name Vietnamtown. Saigon is the former name of the capital of the former South Vietnam,where a large number of first-generation Vietnamese immigrants emigrating to the United States originate from,whereas Hanoi is the current capital of Vietnam.
Sam Woo Restaurant (三和) is a restaurant chain that serves Hong Kong–style cuisine. It has many locations in predominantly overseas Chinese communities of Southern California,in Las Vegas,and in the suburbs of Toronto. "Sam Woo" is a romanization of the Cantonese pronunciation for "triple harmonies," in reference to feng shui principles,including the synthesis of heaven,earth,and humanity. The complete Chinese name (三和燒臘麵家) would translate literally into English as "Three Harmonies Roast Meats and Noodle House."
Shun Fat Supermarket is a Chinese Vietnamese American supermarket chain in the San Gabriel Valley region in California,Sacramento,California,San Pablo,California,Las Vegas,Nevada,Portland,Oregon and Garland,Texas.
In non-Asian countries,an Asian supermarket largely describes a category of grocery stores that focuses and stocks items and products imported from countries located in the Far East.
ParknShop is one of the two largest supermarket chains in Hong Kong,the other being Wellcome. ParknShop operates more than 200 outlets in Hong Kong,Macau and mainland China.
The Asian American influx into the southwestern portion of the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County,California,grew rapidly when Chinese immigrants began settling in Monterey Park in the 1970s. Just east of the city of Los Angeles,the region has achieved international prominence as a hub of overseas Chinese,or hua qiao. Although Chinese immigrants were a noteworthy presence in the establishment of Southern California from the 19th century,significant Chinese migration to suburban San Gabriel Valley coincided with a trend of white out-migration from the 1970s onward. This opened an opportunity for middle-class Asian Americans to begin settling in the San Gabriel Valley.
Chinatown,Boston is a neighborhood located in downtown Boston,Massachusetts,United States. It is the only surviving historic ethnic Chinese enclave in New England since the demise of the Chinatowns in Providence,Rhode Island and Portland,Maine after the 1950s. Because of the high population of Asians and Asian Americans living in this area of Boston,there is an abundance of Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants located in Chinatown. It is one of the most densely populated residential areas in Boston and serves as the largest center of its East Asian and Southeast Asian cultural life.
Mott Street is a narrow but busy thoroughfare that runs in a north–south direction in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is regarded as Chinatown's unofficial "Main Street". Mott Street runs from Bleecker Street in the north to Chatham Square in the south. It is a one-way street with southbound-running vehicular traffic only.
Aji Ichiban was one of the largest snack food franchises in Hong Kong,established in 1993 by Lai Chan Yuk Hing and Lai Hin Tai,who were the president and managing director,respectively. Despite having a hiragana syllabary no (の) in its name,Aji Ichiban was not a Japanese franchise. There were over 90 international locations in varying international destinations.
Kam Man Food is a Chinese supermarket chain with its corporate headquarters in Edison,New Jersey,United States.
The Save Mart Companies is an American grocery store operator founded and headquartered in Modesto,California. It owns and operates stores under the Save Mart,Lucky,and FoodMaxx brands. The stores are located in northern and central California and northern Nevada. The company is owned by the Jim Pattison Group.
China Resources Vanguard,doing business as China Resources Vanguard Shop or Vanguard,operates the supermarket chains of China Resources. It is the third-largest supermarket chain in Hong Kong. As of 31 December 2014,there are 4866 shops operating in Hong Kong and the mainland Chinese provinces / municipalities of Guangdong,Zhejiang,Jiangsu,Shanghai,Tianjin and Beijing.
The first Brooklyn Chinatown,was originally established in the Sunset Park area of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is one of the largest and fastest growing ethnic Chinese enclaves outside of Asia,as well as within New York City itself. Because this Chinatown is rapidly evolving into an enclave predominantly of Fuzhou immigrants from Fujian Province in China,it is now increasingly common to refer to it as the Little Fuzhou or Fuzhou Town of the Western Hemisphere;as well as the largest Fuzhou enclave of New York City.
Chinatowns are enclaves of Chinese people outside of China. The first Chinatown in the United States was San Francisco's Chinatown in 1848,and many other Chinatowns were established in the 19th century by the Chinese diaspora on the West Coast. By 1875,Chinatowns had emerged in eastern cities such as New York City,Boston,Pittsburgh,and Philadelphia. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 barred Chinese immigration to the United States,but the Magnuson Act of 1943 repealed it,and the population of Chinatowns began to rise again.
Elizabeth Street is a street in Manhattan,New York City,which runs north-south parallel to and west of the Bowery. The street is a popular shopping strip in Lower Manhattan's Nolita neighborhood.
Hong Kong Americans,include Americans who are also Hong Kong residents who identify themselves as Hong Kongers,Americans of Hong Kong ancestry,and also Americans who have Hong Kong parents.
There are multiple Chinatowns in the borough of Queens in New York City. The original Queens Chinatown emerged in Flushing,initially as a satellite of the original Manhattan Chinatown,before evolving its own identity,surpassing in scale the original Manhattan Chinatown,and subsequently,in turn,spawning its own satellite Chinatowns in Elmhurst,Corona,and eastern Queens. As of 2023,illegal Chinese immigration to New York has accelerated,and its Flushing neighborhood has become the present-day global epicenter receiving Chinese immigration as well as the international control center directing such migration. As of 2024,a significant new wave of Chinese Uyghur Muslims is fleeing religious persecution in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Province and seeking religious freedom in New York,and concentrating in Queens.
