Trends · data through September 2026

Chinese in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 800 stores from 444 Chinese chains in North Carolina. China City grew fastest over the last year, ahead of King Chef and Great Wall.

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
444
Tracked stores
800
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 King Chef sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C China City ▲4 +9.5%
2 K King Chef ▲3 +6.3%
3 G Great Wall - +6.3%
4 T Taste of China - +5.6%
5 C China Eight ▲4 +5.5%
6 C China Express ▲2 +5.0%
7 N No 1 Chinese Restaurant ▲1 +4.5%
8 A Asian Garden ▲1 +4.0%
9 G Golden China ▲1 +3.8%
10 C China Town ▲1 +3.8%
11 H Hong Kong Restaurant - +3.3%
12 E Eastern Chinese - +2.8%
13 C China House ▲2 +1.8%
14 C China Moon ▲2 +0.4%
15 P Peking Wok - -0.6%
  • Panda Express
  • China Garden
  • China King
  • China Wok
  • Taste of China
  • Great Wall
  • Shun Xing
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

800 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Panda Express (31)
  • China Garden (23)
  • China King (29)
  • China Wok (23)
  • Taste of China (14)
  • Great Wall (14)
  • Shun Xing (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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