Where are the best Asian grocery stores and restaurants around Phoenix?

Mesa formally designated its Asian District in 2019: the stretch of Dobson Road between Main Street and Southern Avenue anchored by the Mekong Plaza shopping centre and, since 2022, an H Mart, surrounded by Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Thai and Filipino restaurants, bakeries and bubble-tea shops. The city’s destination organisation lists the district’s businesses and events, including the Lunar New Year festival [1].

Chandler’s Lee Lee International Supermarket near Dobson and Warner roads has supplied Taiwanese, Chinese and Southeast Asian households for decades and has a second store in Peoria for the West Valley; Tempe, with the university, has clusters of Indian, Japanese and Taiwanese restaurants, and central Phoenix has long-standing Middle Eastern groceries and bakeries. The city magazine’s restaurant coverage is the best running guide to what has opened and what is good [2] [3].

Our area and food guides cover the wider state, from Tucson’s UNESCO-recognised food scene to the mountain towns, each entry citing its official tourism source [4]. Ownership and hours change, so check a store’s own page before a long drive.