Trends · data through September 2026

Chinese in Arizona

Iceflower tracks 450 stores from 277 Chinese chains in Arizona. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Rice Garden and Hot Wok.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
277
Tracked stores
450
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked Chinese chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Panda Express and Rice Garden sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +2.8%
2 R Rice Garden ▲1 -3.3%
3 H Hot Wok - -8.9%
4 C Chen's Chinese Bistro logo Chen's Chinese Bistro - -16.0%
5 Y Yummy Yummy - -17.6%
6 P Pei Wei logo Pei Wei - -20.9%
7 F Famous Wok ▼1 -36.1%
  • Panda Express
  • Pei Wei
  • Wong's Chinese Cuisine
  • China Chili
  • Big Buddha Restaurant
  • Canton Dragon
  • Chino Bandido
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

450 tracked store locations in Arizona. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Panda Express (124)
  • Pei Wei (25)
  • Wong's Chinese Cuisine (1)
  • China Chili (1)
  • Big Buddha Restaurant (1)
  • Canton Dragon (2)
  • Chino Bandido (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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