Trends · data through September 2026

Chinese in New York

Iceflower tracks 1,571 stores from 1,083 Chinese chains in New York. Good Taste grew fastest over the last year, ahead of No 1 Chinese Restaurant and TOA Asian Fusion.

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
1,083
Tracked stores
1,571
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. Good Taste and No 1 Chinese Restaurant sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Good Taste ▲3 +5.9%
2 N No 1 Chinese Restaurant ▲5 +4.1%
3 T TOA Asian Fusion - +3.1%
4 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲2 +1.4%
5 C China City ▲3 +1.3%
6 M Main Moon ▲3 +0.7%
7 C China King - +0.3%
8 C Chinatown Kitchen ▲4 +0.1%
9 L Lucky Star - -1.8%
10 M Ming Moon ▲2 -2.5%
11 X Xi'an Famous Foods logo Xi'an Famous Foods ▲5 -2.9%
12 N New Dragon - -3.1%
13 L Ling Ling ▲3 -3.3%
14 H Happy Wok ▲1 -3.3%
15 C China Express ▲2 -3.5%
  • Steam
  • Panda Express
  • China King
  • China Wok
  • Din Tai Fung
  • Great Wall
  • Albany Buffet
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,571 tracked store locations in New York. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Steam (1)
  • Panda Express (27)
  • China King (27)
  • China Wok (30)
  • Din Tai Fung (1)
  • Great Wall (26)
  • Albany Buffet (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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