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  Asian supermarket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Asian vegetables such as bok choy, bean sprouts, welsh onions, ginger and mustard vegetables are frequent items in produce sections.
Asian supermarkets can range from small mom-and-pop grocery stores to large supercenters and may cater specifically to one ethnic Asian immigrant group or to a wide pan-Asian crowd.
Asian supermarkets represent a new trend in which Asian immigrants no longer settle in old enclaves such as Chinatown, San Francisco (undoubtedly still the largest in the U.S.), but in suburbs where shopping centers provide services.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asian_supermarket   (767 words)

  
 Supermarket - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
At present, many supermarket chains are trying to reduce labour costs (and thus margins) further by shifting to self-service check-out machines, where a group of four or five machines is supervised by a single assistant.
The first true supermarket in the United States was opened by ex-Kroger employee Michael J. Cullen, in August 1930 in a 6,000 square foot (560 m²) former garage in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
Supermarkets in the USA are now often co-located with department stores in strip malls and are generally regional rather than national.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /supermarket.htm   (776 words)

  
 Supermarket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Most supermarkets also sell a variety of other household products that are consumed regularly, such as alcohol (where permitted), household cleaning products, medicine, clothes, and some sell a much wider range of non-food products.
Supermarkets are often part of a chain that owns or controls (sometimes by franchise) other supermarkets located in the same or other towns; this increases the opportunities for economies of scale.
At present, many supermarket chains are trying to reduce labour costs further by shifting to self-service check-out machines, where a group of four or five machines is supervised by a single assistant.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Supermarket   (916 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Asian supermarket   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Shun Fat Supermarket (Traditional: é †ç™¼è¶…ç´šå¸‚å ´; Simplified: 顺发超级市场; Pinyin: Shùnfā Chāojíshìcháng; Vietnamese: Siêu Thị Thuận Phát; also known as SF Supermarket) is a small, but growing, Chinese Vietnamese American supermarket chain in the San Gabriel Valley region in California, Sacramento, California, San Pablo, California, and...
Paristore is an Asian supermarket in the region of Paris.
A supermarket is a store that sells a wide variety of goods including food and alcohol (where permitted), medicine, clothes, and other household products that are consumed regularly.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Asian-supermarket   (2448 words)

  
 Supermarket
A larger supermarket combined with a department store is known as a hypermarket.
The first supermarket was Piggly Wiggly, but A&P; was the most successful of the early chains, having become common in American cities in the 1920s.
Supermarkets in the USA are now often found matched with department stores in strip malls and are generally regional rather than national.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/su/supermarket.html   (320 words)

  
 RetailWire Print Pages
Asian Americans rank higher than, and in some cases exceed, that of the general market in such key attributes as education attainment, per capita household income, homeownership, net worth, and professional occupation.
Supermarkets need to understand their consumers locally, identify the largest ethnic group for each store/store cluster and include a 'specialty ethnic' section to cater to its consumers needs.
Asians are at least as diverse, culturally speaking, as Hispanics.
www.retailwire.com /Print/PrintDocument.cfm?DOC_ID=10125   (2238 words)

  
 Food Product Design: Design Elements - January 2003 - Sweet by Design   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Asian cuisine’s path across the national palate is stained with sauces that, best intentions aside, didn’t fly with American audiences or the discriminating consumers who call Asian food home-cooking.
And they get their own sauce, too.” Asian meals are loath to segregate the meat from the starch from the greens, treating each dish, instead, as “a one-dish meal, a complete composition in itself,” he says.
In pursuit of balance, Asian cooks have effected a repurposing of the sauce that runs counter to its traditional role in the West as a fluid blanket draped over, or laid under, a meat cutlet, vegetable assortment or portion of starch.
www.foodproductdesign.com /archive/2003/0103DE.html   (4951 words)

  
 Brian's Geography 472 Project Page -- Methodology (Page 1 of 2)
To obtain the Asian population percentages, recent Asian immigration percentages, and the family income information, the 1991 census data were manipulated in the Database Workshop and the SQL Editor modules in Idrisi.
For example, in the Asian population percentages factor, the selections of the end points were partially determined by the threshold levels that I believed would be logical and reasonable.
The Asian population percentages factor was given the most weights because TandT Supermarket was incorporated to cater to the growing Asian population in the Lower Mainland.
www.geog.ubc.ca /courses/klink/g470/class97/chow/method.htm   (986 words)

  
 Asian Food Markets :: About Us
Asian Food Markets :: About Us In 1992, W.K. Chan, the founder of Asian Food Center, Inc. and Asian Food Markets, opened a 10,000 square feet Asian supermarket in the heart of Central New Jersey.
Asian Food Markets is focused on delivering the freshest foods and highest quality groceries at the lowest prices.
Having numerous departments within the supermarket, that includes seafood, produce, poultry, a bakery, a hot deli, and a general merchandising section that are opened daily to provide service excellence that not only strives to meet, but exceed customer’s expectations.
asianfoodcenter.com /aboutus.html   (173 words)

  
 Hong Kong Supermarket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hong Kong Supermarket (Traditional: 香港超級市場; Simplified: 香港超级市场; Pinyin: Xīanggǎng Chāojíshìcháng) is a growing Chinese American supermarket chain in the Los Angeles region of Southern California.
The store in Monterey Park, California is a popular destination for Mainland Chinese emigres, the San Gabriel, California location caters to immigrants from Taiwan, and the West Covina, California location caters to Chinese Indonesians.
Hong Kong Supermarket was established in 1981 with its flagship store located in Monterey Park, California, where it is still among the popular Asian supermarkets.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hong_Kong_Supermarket   (210 words)

  
 BAY AREA / Market improvement / Peninsula boosts offerings of Asian foods
Asian supermarkets, common in San Francisco, the South Bay and East Bay, have begun appearing in force on the Peninsula, reflecting a steady growth in the local Asian American community.
Island Pacific Supermarket opened two years ago in South San Francisco, and city officials say it appears an Asian supermarket will be moving into an abandoned Cala-Bell supermarket on Westborough Boulevard.
Local officials said the growth of the supermarkets is not surprising, given the changing demographics of the Peninsula.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/22/BAGMK7N2VA45.DTL   (840 words)

  
 Chinatown South - The Patriot Ledger 4-part series
Raymond K. Tung, left, president and CEO of the Asian American Bank on Quincy Avenue, and Henry Li, the bank’s vice president, took a chance opening some distance from the heart of Quincy’s Asian-American community.
When Asian American Bank decided to open a branch in the city, officials from the company knew exactly where to look: North Quincy, the heart of a burgeoning Asian-American population.
Asian American Bank will anchor a mall with between 60 and 70 retail stores located in the same building as the Kam Man supermarket on Quincy Avenue near the Fore River shipyard.
www.southofboston.net /specialreports/chinatown/day2-bank.html   (609 words)

  
 Cultivating a taste for Asia - baltimoresun.com
In the past decade, at least three Korean-American food companies have opened large supermarkets in suburaban Maryland near Baltimore and in Wheaton, outside Washington, D.C. Han Ah Reum (HAR) is located on Rolling Road near Route 40.
Walker said she likes the supermarket because the diversity of foods and customers reminds her of life in California.
The first HAR opened in 1982 in Queens, N.Y. Now, the Catonsville and Wheaton supermarkets are among 15 that operate from there to Virginia.
baltimoresun.com /business/bal-offlede022403,0,5701463.story?...   (960 words)

  
 No. 00CA0690. Vu, Inc. v. Pacific Ocean Marketplace, Inc. v. Asian Supermarket, Inc. - May 10, 2001 - Colorado Court of ...
In this forcible entry and detainer (FED) action, defendants, Pacific Ocean Marketplace, Inc., Pacific Ocean International Supermarket, and Trong Lam (collectively, tenant), appeal the summary judgment entered against them and in favor of plaintiff, Vu, Inc. (Vu), and counterclaim defendant, Asian Supermarket, Inc. (ASI).
Because the judgment of possession in Vu, Inc. I was appealed, and jurisdiction was removed from the trial court, tenant filed counterclaims against Vu, and claims against counterclaim-defendant, ASI, in this separate case.
In this case, tenant alleged breach of contract and promissory estoppel claims against Vu and unfair competition and intentional interference with contract claims against ASI.
www.cobar.org /opinions/opinion.cfm?OpinionID=401   (1194 words)

  
 Ambient Irony: Life's Little Disappointments
The asian supermarket closest to New Pixy Central doesn't sell the strawberry Pocky that I like.
The asian supermarket third closest to New Pixy Central does sell the strawberry Pocky that I like, but that's another four minutes walk.
The asian supermarket near the office (or rather, the new asian supermarket near the office, not the old asian supermarket near the office) also sells the strawberry Pocky that I like, but it charges ten cents more than the asian supermarket third closest to New Pixy Central.
ambientirony.mu.nu /archives/2005/06/lifes_little_di.php   (218 words)

  
 Asian Sculpture (from sculpture) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Reports of the splendor of Asian art were brought to Europe by Marco Polo.
By the 18th century Europeans not only possessed original ceramics, enamels, and furniture from the East but were adapting Asian designs and skills in their own products.
While the media focus was usually on the outstanding success in school or business of these Asian Americans, their remarkable achievements were often matched by young Asian...
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-207838?ct=   (805 words)

  
 Asian Life in Houston | Asian American Poll | GoldSea
The two Supermarkets still occupy those adjacent Strip malls and draw heavy business--much of which comes from Asian families who live in San Antonio, Beaumont and elsewhere in the State who come to Houston to do all their specialty shopping on the weekends.
I teach at HCC in the evenings and have about 30% Asian students in my class, many of whom are So-Cal transplants whose families relocated to the Houston area in order to escape the high cost of living.
It focused in particular on the impact of Asian immigrants.
goldsea.com /Poll/Houston/houston.html   (999 words)

  
 asiaxpress.com Denver's Premium Online Guide to Asian Resources and Events
Asian Super Market did its research before opening, surveying operations in American cities with major Asian populations and learning from their successes and failures.
In addition to the vast ethnic selections, Vu aims to attract shoppers also by offering four aisles of general merchandise Americans are accustomed to finding in supermarkets.
On certain evenings, Asian Super Market will host cooking classes from the area's favorite seasoned chefs, teaching how to prepare a full Asian menu.
www.asiaxpress.com /Articles/asian_supermarket/asian_supermarket2.htm   (351 words)

  
 Super H Mart: Northern Virginia's Asian Food Showcase | Asian American Parenting | GOLDSEA
or Asian Americans in Northern Virginia the Super H Mart in Fairfax is becoming the Asian food showcase, you know, the place you take non-Asian friends when you want to impress them with just how modern and sophisticated Asians are.
What makes Super H Mart a destination for Asian American families from NoVa and surrounding areas is its sheer immensity (54,000 sq-ft), its sparkling designer look and its unparalleled selection.
Its Asian cuisines, bakeries and a café encourage visitors to lounge and enjoy the atmospherics of a truly nouvelle Asian supermarket.
goldsea.com /Parenting/Malls/superh.html   (315 words)

  
 Hong Kong Plaza: Rowland Heights's Old-World Asian Mall | Asian American Parenting | GOLDSEA
Its restaurants sport mostly "B" ratings from the LA County health department and are a bit faded looking, not the kinds of places you'd take a date to.
It sits smack-dab in the middle of the Asian strip on Colima in Rowland Heights, one of America's most vibrant Asian commercial districts.
Across Colima are the SF Plaza and the HK Supermarket Plaza, both of which rival Hong Kong Plaza in size and bustle.
www.goldsea.com /Parenting/Malls/hkp.html   (278 words)

  
 asiaxpress.com Denver's Premium Online Guide to Asian Resources and Events
According to this oldest son of the family, who also manages the whole shopping center, Asian Super Market boasts the largest selection and variety of Asian foods in the region.
His store imports common staples and brands from all Asian countries, as well as specialty items from other parts of the world such as Belgium chocolate and French butter.
Hence, the store is a cultural awakening to all, especially for the non-Asian, and a delight to the Asian looking for a specific ingredient from the homeland.
www.asiaxpress.com /Articles/asian_supermarket/asian_supermarket.htm   (277 words)

  
 Boston Phoenix - The Best - Shopping   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Right across the turnpike from Chinatown, 88 Supermarket has everything you'd need to fire up a spicy Chinese dinner.
The dry-food aisles have a plethora of rice and noodles, canned vegetables and fruit, meat jerky, spicy rice crackers, and tasty sauces.
88's produce department combines the best fruits and vegetables from a regular supermarket with a wide variety of Asian produce.
www.bostonphoenix.com /supplements/the_best/98/text/S_ASIAN_FOODS.html   (198 words)

  
 GenMarket.com: Your Genealogy Supermarket : Ethnic : Asian
Completed in 1987, it is designed as a resource for researchers, both experienced and novice, into the history and politics of this important Asian nation.
Most of the case files document the arrival into Hawaii from the U.S. mainland or foreign ports of Chinese aliens and the reentry of U.S. citizens of Chinese ancestry under the Chinese Exclusion Acts passed by Congress between 1882 and 1930, and repealed in 1943.
Most of the case files document the arrival into San Francisco from the U.S. mainland or foreign ports of Chinese aliens and the reentry of U.S. citizens of Chinese ancestry under the Chinese Exclusion Acts passed by Congress between 1882 and 1930, and repealed in 1943.
www.genmarket.com /Ethnic/Asian   (651 words)

  
 Vietworldkitchen.com -- Vietnamese and Asian malls, shopping centers, restaurants and markets.
It's impossible to provide a complete list of Asian and Vietnamese markets in America so I've concentrated on big chains and markets in California, where the majority of Vietnamese people live.
If you're in the Richmond area, there are Asian markets in numerous locations, on Irving and Geary streets, for example.
Asian immigrants who've settled in the Monterey Bay have set up shops along a sleepy stretch of Fremont Boulevard in Seaside, CA.
www.vietworldkitchen.com /shopdine/markets.htm   (933 words)

  
 San Gabriel Square: San Gabriel Valley's Chinese Mega-Mall | Asian American Parenting | GOLDSEA
This sprawling 12-acre, 220,000-square-foot multi-level mega-mall is on the corner of Valley Boulevard or Del Mar, at the junction of the Asian-majority cities of Monterey Park and San Gabriel.
Another testament to San Gabriel Square's size: it's the only Asian mall in the U.S. to be anchored by a department store (Focus) and an Asian supermarket (Ranch 99).
This is the place to bring friends who still don't understand that Asians are the growth factor in Los Angeles County.
www.goldsea.com /Parenting/Malls/sgs.html   (252 words)

  
 Bargains, delicacies to be found at Asian store (printable version)
Especially if you are a curious non-Asian foodie, like me? So when I heard about the new Reno Asian Supermarket, I gave my friend, Hiroko, a call.
Reno Asian Supermarket, located at 803 W. Fifth St., is spacious (4,800 square feet) and shining clean.
There is no lack of supplies: there were more than 20 kinds of sauces; Asian juices; An array of Chinese herbals for medicinal tea; frozen Japanese TV dinners; legumes of all kinds; a variety of soy sauces; and sweet fl sesame rice balls, a favorite of Hiroko’s.
www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=35952   (504 words)

  
 Simmer time - GoodLivingLukeMangan - www.smh.com.au
Yellow rock sugar, which imparts a wonderful, honey-like flavour and luscious sheen, is well worth seeking in your local Asian supermarket, where you also will find cassia bark with its distinctive earthy flavour (its close relative, cinnamon, can be substituted if necessary).
Serve with fresh egg noodles or rice, or as an accompaniment to whole steamed fish, roast chicken or lamb or even a beef stir-fry.
The flavours are subtle and the tenderness of the chicken relies on a very gentle simmer.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/06/22/1087844914185.html   (815 words)

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