Trends · data through September 2026

Chinese in New Jersey

Iceflower tracks 995 stores from 691 Chinese chains in New Jersey. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of China Express and Golden Jade.

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
691
Tracked stores
995
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 China Express sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +18.7%
2 C China Express ▲6 +18.4%
3 G Golden Jade - +17.3%
4 G Good Taste ▲3 +16.8%
5 C China Wok ▲4 +9.4%
6 K King Wok ▲1 +9.4%
7 N Number One Chinese Restaurant ▲2 +8.4%
8 C China Cafe - +7.3%
9 C China Garden ▲1 +7.3%
10 P Panda Garden - +5.7%
11 C China Star ▲1 +4.5%
12 C China Moon - +2.6%
13 P Panda House - +0.7%
14 C China House ▲2 0.0%
15 Y Yummy Yummy ▲1 -0.2%
  • Panda Express
  • Great Wall
  • Hunan Wok
  • Best Food In Town
  • Nan Xiang Soup Dumplings
  • China Wok
  • China House
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

995 tracked store locations in New Jersey. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Panda Express (28)
  • Great Wall (26)
  • Hunan Wok (16)
  • Best Food In Town (14)
  • Nan Xiang Soup Dumplings (1)
  • China Wok (17)
  • China House (10)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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