Trends · data through September 2026

Chinese in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Iceflower tracks 1,708 stores from 1,200 Chinese chains in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Happy Wok grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Taste of China and Panda Chinese Restaurant.

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
1,200
Tracked stores
1,708
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. Happy Wok and Taste of China sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Happy Wok ▲7 +12.3%
2 T Taste of China ▲5 +9.1%
3 P Panda Chinese Restaurant ▲7 +8.5%
4 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +7.7%
5 M Mr Wonton ▲1 +6.5%
6 G Golden Star ▲6 +5.5%
7 P Peking Garden ▲7 +4.3%
8 G Good Taste ▲1 +3.5%
9 G Golden Jade ▲4 +3.4%
10 T TOA Asian Fusion ▲8 +1.3%
11 C China Garden ▲2 -0.2%
12 C China King ▲2 -3.0%
13 X Xi'an Famous Foods logo Xi'an Famous Foods ▲1 -4.6%
14 C Chinatown Kitchen ▲2 -4.8%
15 P Panda Garden ▲5 -7.1%
  • Steam
  • Panda Express
  • Din Tai Fung
  • Great Wall
  • Hunan Wok
  • Ugly Dumpling
  • Xi'an Famous Foods
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,708 tracked store locations in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Steam (1)
  • Panda Express (45)
  • Din Tai Fung (1)
  • Great Wall (27)
  • Hunan Wok (13)
  • Ugly Dumpling (3)
  • Xi'an Famous Foods (9)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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