An Asian supermarket is a grocery store in Asian countries that stocks items imported from the many countries in East and Southeast Asia. They carry items and ingredients generally well-suited for Asian cuisines and not found in most Western supermarkets.
The Asian market is a local food store in an Asian culture. These markets go farther than a typical market in that they sell quintessential general merchandise, goods, and services related to Asian countries of origin and immigrant communities. They are prevalent in Asian enclaves in the United States and Canada. Urban centers such as New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle have Chinatowns, Little Indias, Koreatowns, or Japantowns and other ethnic neighborhoods with specialty small business, but surrounding areas or smaller cities will have Asian supermarkets providing the same but reduced amenities for the same purposes.
Sometimes, there is an Asian-themed strip mall surrounding the market. The markets can be ethnocentric and be a mainly Chinese, Japanese or Filipino market; however in many areas such supermarkets cater to a diverse Asian population. It is this diversity that led to the establishment of Pan Asian goods in a one-stop shop with aisles selling foods in common and others dedicated to other groups such as Pakistani, Indian, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Thai, Samoan, Taiwanese, Korean, and others.
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