Kam Man Food is a Chinese supermarket

Asian supermarket

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 chain based in Chinatown

Chinatown, Manhattan

Manhattan's Chinatown , home to one of the highest concentrations of Chinese people in the Western hemisphere, is located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City...

, New York City

New York City

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. While it has its main store in Manhattan

Manhattan

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, it also has locations in Quincy, Massachusetts

Quincy, Massachusetts

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, Edison

Edison, New Jersey

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 and East Hanover, New Jersey

East Hanover, New Jersey

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, and Long Island, New York. A location in Staten Island, New York opened in 2005 and closed on October 1, 2006.

The first Chinese supermarket on the East Coast of the United States

East Coast of the United States

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

Canal Street (Manhattan)

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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

World Journal is a daily Chinese language newspaper serving overseas Chinese in North America. The newspaper has its headquarters in Whitestone, Queens, New York City....

 Bookstore.

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

New England

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's Asian American

Asian American

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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 Chinatown

Chinatown

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s to shop. The Quincy store is now the largest Asian supermarket in New England.