Trends · data through September 2026

Chinese in St. Louis, MO-IL

Iceflower tracks 236 stores from 150 Chinese chains in St. Louis, MO-IL. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of China Garden and Green China.

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
150
Tracked stores
236
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 Garden sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +5.4%
2 C China Garden - +4.5%
3 G Green China ▲1 -1.8%
4 C China Wok - -6.0%
5 C China King - -6.3%
6 C China House ▼1 -8.7%
7 N New China - -10.2%
8 8 88 China - -12.4%
  • Panda Express
  • China King
  • Corner 17
  • New China
  • Rice House
  • 88 China
  • Hunan Chop Suey Chinese Restaurant
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

236 tracked store locations in St. Louis, MO-IL. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Panda Express (28)
  • China King (20)
  • Corner 17 (1)
  • New China (10)
  • Rice House (1)
  • 88 China (5)
  • Hunan Chop Suey Chinese Restaurant (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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