Trends · data through September 2026

Chinese in Tennessee

Iceflower tracks 406 stores from 243 Chinese chains in Tennessee. Taste of China grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Panda Express and Panda Garden.

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
243
Tracked stores
406
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. Taste of China and Panda Express sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Taste of China ▲1 +12.9%
2 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +8.6%
3 P Panda Garden ▲2 +5.4%
4 M Mama's Kitchen - +5.2%
5 C China 1 ▲1 +0.7%
6 N New China ▲1 -1.9%
7 G Great Wall - -4.6%
8 R Rice Box ▼1 -4.7%
9 C China One - -8.5%
10 C China Wok - -9.0%
11 C China King ▼1 -9.6%
12 C China Spring ▼1 -11.6%
13 P Peking Chinese Restaurant - -13.1%
14 P Pei Wei logo Pei Wei - -13.4%
15 S Steam Boys ▼2 -14.0%
  • Panda Express
  • China Wok
  • Forbidden City Restaurant
  • Asia Cafe
  • Fulin's Asian Cuisine
  • Asian Chao
  • China One
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

406 tracked store locations in Tennessee. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Panda Express (56)
  • China Wok (17)
  • Forbidden City Restaurant (1)
  • Asia Cafe (1)
  • Fulin's Asian Cuisine (4)
  • Asian Chao (2)
  • China One (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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