Viet-Wah is a chain of Asian [1] / Vietnamese [2] supermarkets in the Seattle metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Washington. [3] Established in 1981, [4] [5] the business specializes in Vietnamese, Chinese, and Thai products [6] and such as duck and quail eggs, noodles, seafood, [1] chicken hearts, and fish sauce. [7]
The original store, [8] which operated on South Jackson Street [9] in the Asian Plaza development [10] of the Little Saigon part of Seattle's Chinatown–International District, [7] closed in 2022. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] The 15,000-square-foot [16] store had a pharmacy, tanks with live seafood, and kitchen supplies. [17] Crosscut.com described the store as a pillar of Little Saigon. [18] The building caught fire in 2024. [19] [20] [21] [22]
The location on Martin Luther King Jr. Way S closed in 2015. [23] The business also operates in Renton. [24]
The Chinatown–International District of Seattle, Washington is the center of the city's Asian American community. Within the district are the three neighborhoods known as Chinatown, Japantown and Little Saigon, named for the concentration of businesses owned by people of Chinese, Japanese and Vietnamese descent, respectively. The geographic area also once included Manilatown.
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.
The Wah Mee massacre was a mass shooting that occurred during the night of February 18–19, 1983, in the Wah Mee gambling club at the Louisa Hotel in Seattle, Washington, United States. Fourteen people were bound, robbed and shot by three gunmen, 22-year-old Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak, 20-year old Keung Kin "Benjamin" Ng and 25-year-old Wai Chiu "Tony" Ng. Thirteen of the victims died, but 61-year-old Wai Yok Chin, a former U.S. Navy sailor and Pai Gow dealer at the Wah Mee, survived to testify against the three in the separate high-profile trials held between 1983 and 1985.
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.
Oklahoma City's Asia District, also known as the Asian District, is the center of Asian culture and International cuisine and commerce in the state of Oklahoma. It contains the largest population of Asian Americans and descendants from Asia in the state.
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.
Uwajimaya, Inc., doing business as Uwajimaya Asian Grocery & Gift Markets, is a family-owned supermarket chain with its corporate headquarters in the International District, Seattle, Washington, and with locations in Greater Seattle and Oregon. Uwajimaya sells mainly Asian food—with an emphasis on Japanese—though it also stocks Western staples. The flagship store is in Seattle's Chinatown/International District with three other stores in Beaverton, Oregon, Bellevue, Washington and Renton, Washington. From 1968 to 1991 there was another store in the Southcenter Mall in Tukwila, Washington.
The Little Saigon district straddling the cities of Garden Grove and Westminster in Orange County, California is the largest Little Saigon in the United States. Saigon is the former name of the capital of the former South Vietnam, where a large number of first-generation Vietnamese immigrants originate.
The Historic Chinatown Gate is a modern Paifang archway in the Chinatown-International District neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.
The Louisa Hotel is a building in Chinatown-International District, Seattle. In 1983 it was the scene of the Wah Mee massacre, the deadliest mass murder in Washington state history.
Dim Sum King is a Chinese restaurant in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Jade Garden Restaurant is a Chinese restaurant in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Mike's Noodle House is a Chinese restaurant in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Fuji Bakery is a bakery with multiple locations in the Seattle metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Saigon Vietnam Deli is a Vietnamese restaurant in Seattle's Chinatown–International District, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Hello Em Việt Coffee & Roastery, or simply Hello Em, is a Vietnamese coffee shop in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Bush Garden is a restaurant and karaoke bar on Maynard Avenue South in Seattle's Chinatown–International District, Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Huong Binh Vietnamese Cuisine is a Vietnamese restaurant in Seattle's Chinatown–International District, in the U.S. state of Washington. Located at the intersection of 12th and Jackson in the Ding How Center strip mall in Little Saigon, the restaurant was established by Lien Dang in 1993. She sold the business in 2019.
Oasis Tea Zone is a small chain of restaurants in the Seattle metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Washington. The Liu family opened the original cafe in Seattle's Chinatown–International District in c. 2001. The business has expanded to three locations, as of 2022, operating in the University District and in Edmonds. It has garnered a positive reception and is considered one of Seattle's best boba shops.
The Chinatown–International District Night Market is an annual night market in Seattle's Chinatown–International District (CID), in the U.S. state of Washington. Established in 2006, the event is organized by the non-profit group Chinatown-International District Business Improvement Area (CIDBIA). It has featured food, film screenings, and entertainment.