Trends · data through September 2026

Chinese in Virginia

Iceflower tracks 781 stores from 447 Chinese chains in Virginia. China City grew fastest over the last year, ahead of China Moon and Panda Express.

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
447
Tracked stores
781
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. China City and China Moon sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C China City ▲2 +10.4%
2 C China Moon ▲3 +9.3%
3 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +9.1%
4 C China Sun ▲2 +8.5%
5 H Hunan Cafe - +7.9%
6 C Chen's Chinese Restaurant ▲6 +7.2%
7 P Peking Chinese Restaurant ▲3 +6.5%
8 C China House ▲3 +5.6%
9 C China Ocean ▲2 +5.4%
10 T Top's China - +5.0%
11 D Dragon China ▲3 +4.6%
12 C China Kitchen - +3.9%
13 A Asian Cafe ▲1 +3.6%
14 S Shun Xing Chinese Restaurant ▲1 +3.4%
15 P Peking Restaurant ▲1 +3.0%
  • Panda Express
  • Hot Pot 757
  • China Wok
  • China King
  • Hunan Cafe
  • Hong Kong Restaurant
  • Great Wall
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

781 tracked store locations in Virginia. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Panda Express (61)
  • Hot Pot 757 (3)
  • China Wok (20)
  • China King (11)
  • Hunan Cafe (14)
  • Hong Kong Restaurant (9)
  • Great Wall (14)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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