Trends · data through September 2026

Chinese in Alabama

Iceflower tracks 266 stores from 167 Chinese chains in Alabama. China Wok grew fastest over the last year, ahead of China Kitchen and Panda House.

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
167
Tracked stores
266
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 Wok and China Kitchen sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C China Wok ▲2 +17.7%
2 C China Kitchen ▲1 +16.2%
3 P Panda House - +16.1%
4 C China King ▲3 +10.1%
5 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +2.8%
6 G Great Wall - +1.2%
7 C China Gourmet ▲1 -0.2%
8 N New China - -3.0%
9 C China Garden ▼1 -7.0%
10 C China Chef ▼1 -19.1%
11 C China Town ▼3 -20.8%
12 S Super Canton ▲2 -21.1%
13 C China Moon ▼1 -22.4%
14 H Hunan Garden ▼1 -42.8%
15 C China Dragon - -45.4%
  • Panda Express
  • New China
  • China King
  • China Chef
  • Dragon City Buffet
  • Top China
  • China Wok
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

266 tracked store locations in Alabama. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Panda Express (28)
  • New China (13)
  • China King (7)
  • China Chef (3)
  • Dragon City Buffet (1)
  • Top China (1)
  • China Wok (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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