Asian Specialty Stores

99 Ranch—A pan-Asian market chain serving states with large Asian communities. All the stores are clean and modern. They claim to be “America’s largest Asian supermarket chain!” Though 99 Ranch caters mostly to Chinese shoppers, you can find ingredients for preparing all kinds of Asian cuisine. Stores feature live seafood tanks and “you buy, we fry” service. Most of their markets are in California.

Asian Food Market/Center—In New Jersey for now, this growing chain of pan-Asian markets was started in 1992 by W. K. Chan.