Kam Man Food (; abbreviated KM Food) is a

Chinese supermarket In non-Asian countries, an Asian supermarket largely describes a category of grocery stores that focuses and stocks items and products imported from countries located in the Far East (e.g. East Asia, East, Southeast Asia, Southeast and South Asia ...

chain with its corporate headquarters in

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, United States. Its original location is in

Chinatown Chinatown ( zh, t=唐人街) is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa, O ...

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. While it has its main store in

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(named "New Kam Man"), it also has locations in

Quincy, Massachusetts Quincy ( ) is a city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest city in the county. Quincy is part of the Greater Boston area as one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in ...

and

East Hanover, New Jersey East Hanover Township is a township in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 11,105, a decrease of 52 (−0.5%) from the 2010 census count of 11,157, which in turn r ...

. A location in Staten Island, New York, opened in 2005 and closed on October 1, 2006. The first Chinese supermarket on the

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, Kam Man opened for business in 1972. Its main store is located at 200

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, between Mott Street and Mulberry Street, and carries such Asian mainstays as meats and produce, noodles, sauces, frozen foods, ginseng and various herbs. It also has an entire floor dedicated to cooking utensils, Asian ceramics and loose teas. Its store in Edison, New Jersey, anchors a plaza that also includes a video rental shop, pharmacy, cell phone shop, travel agency, and a branch of the

World Journal ''World Journal'' ( zh, c= 世界日報, p=Shìjiè Rìbào) is a Pan-Blue Taiwanese broadsheet newspaper published in North America. It is the largest Chinese language newspaper in the United States and one of the largest Chinese-language ne ...

Bookstore. Kam Man's expansion into Quincy, Massachusetts, has been the subject of several articles on the growth of

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community. Opened in 2003, the Quincy store anchors a mall that includes 40 shops. Kam Man and other Asian-owned businesses are seen as filling a market space catering to affluent suburban Asian Americans unwilling to drive to traditional urban

s to shop. As of August 2007, the Quincy store was the largest Asian supermarket in New England.Asian festival expands into city center – The Boston Globe
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* {{Supermarkets of the United States Asian-American culture in Massachusetts Asian-American culture in New Jersey American companies established in 1972 Retail companies established in 1972 Chinese-American culture in New York City Chinese supermarkets Companies based in Middlesex County, New Jersey Edison, New Jersey

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