Asian-Owned Businesses in Dallas to Support in 2026

The biggest entry on this list is not a business so much as a destination. Asia Times Square is one of the largest Asian shopping and dining plazas in Texas, in Grand Prairie about twenty miles west of downtown Dallas, and a single trip there covers more ground than the rest of this guide combined.

Everything else we have recorded is a kitchen, and the range is wide: three Thai kitchens working in three different registers, Taiwanese baking, Japanese robata, a Vietnamese and Mexican street food counter, and a boba shop. Eighteen Dallas listings carry the Asian-owned tag, across seventeen distinct businesses.

Quick answer

1. For a whole afternoon, Asia Times Square in Grand Prairie.
2. For chef-driven Thai, Asian Mint in North Dallas.
3. For Thai street food, Ka-Tip Thai Street Food. For a sit-down version, Ka Thai.
4. For Chinese, Jia Modern Chinese and May Dragon.
5. For Taiwanese food and a bakery in one, Jeng Chi Restaurant & Bakery.
6. For Japanese, Tei Tei Robata Bar and Shinsei.
7. For Vietnamese, Ngon Viet Kitchen, and for Vietnamese crossed with Mexican, Cris and John.
8. For boba, Boba Republic.
9. Our Dallas hub carries the full list.

What is Asia Times Square?

The one listing here that is not a restaurant, and the only reason to drive out of Dallas on this guide.

Asia Times Square is a shopping and dining plaza in Grand Prairie, described in our records as one of the largest of its kind in Texas. It holds shops, groceries, and food rather than being any single one of them, which makes it the closest thing on this page to a neighborhood.

It carries a paid tier, which means the owners built out the listing themselves. If you are new to the area and want one trip that covers the most ground, this is it.

Where should I eat?

The Thai listings are the deepest group and they are not interchangeable.

Asian Mint is the highest-profile kitchen in this category, chef-driven and serving what it calls New Bangkok cuisine in North Dallas. It is Featured, and it is women-owned as well. Ka-Tip Thai Street Food works the street food end, and Ka Thai is the sit-down room. All three are women-owned.

For Chinese, Jia Modern Chinese is the modern option and May Dragon the long-standing one. Jeng Chi Restaurant & Bakery is Chinese and Taiwanese with a bakery attached, which makes it the one to visit when you want to leave with something as well as eat.

Japanese runs from Tei Tei Robata Bar, a robata grill, to Shinsei, which works across Japanese and pan-Asian.

Ngon Viet Kitchen covers Vietnamese. Cris and John crosses Vietnamese with Mexican street food, which is a Texas combination that could only have come from here.

Which of these are counters rather than restaurants?

Worth knowing before you plan an evening around one. Chef Chin's Hibachi & Ramen, Horu Sushi, and Yan Pan Asian are recorded as food hall stalls rather than standalone dining rooms, and Chop Chop, Red Stix Street Food, and Boba Republic sit at the fast and casual end.

That is not a criticism of any of them. It is the difference between a place you book and a place you walk up to, and a guide that blurs the two wastes your evening.

How much overlaps with the women-owned list?

Seven of the eighteen listings are also women-owned: Asian Mint, Jia Modern Chinese, Ka Thai, Ka-Tip Thai Street Food, Ngon Viet Kitchen, Red Stix Street Food, and Shinsei.

Every Thai listing in the Dallas directory is women-owned, which is the kind of pattern you only see by browsing two tags at once.

What is not on this list?

Everything except food and one shopping plaza. There is no Asian-owned attorney, accountant, doctor, dentist, contractor, salon, real estate agent, or grocery listed in Dallas in our directory.

Asian residents are about 4% of Dallas and a much larger share of the wider Metroplex, particularly in Plano, Richardson, Irving, and Garland, none of which currently holds a published listing of any kind here. So this page is not a picture of Asian-owned business in North Texas. It is a picture of which Dallas restaurants got written about in the food media this directory was built from.

If you run an Asian-owned business in the Metroplex in any other category, or in any of those suburbs, you would be the first one listed. Listings are free to add.

How is ownership determined?

Each listing shows a verification status. Publicly listed means ownership was recorded from a public source such as a chamber directory or the business's own description. Self identified means the owner told us directly. Certified means a third party verified it.

We never infer ownership from a surname, a photo, or the cuisine a restaurant serves. On this page in particular: a sushi bar is not evidence of a Japanese owner, and treating cuisine as evidence is how directories end up full of confident errors.

Dallas also has guides to its women-owned, Black-owned, Latino-owned, and LGBTQ-owned businesses.

Common mistakes

Reading this page as a map of Asian Dallas. The Metroplex's Asian business districts are largely in Plano, Richardson, Irving, and Garland. We have nothing published in any of them yet.

Assuming the cuisine tells you the ownership. It does not, in either direction.

Driving to Grand Prairie by accident, or missing it on purpose. Asia Times Square is the one entry that is not in Dallas, and it is also the one most worth the drive.

Treating a tag as a certification. Ownership tags are sourced claims with a status attached. Formal minority-business certification is separate and shown separately.

FAQ

Sources

• Business names, categories, cities, and ownership tags come from published Inclusivity.org listings with city = dallas, queried 2026-08-15. Counts reflect that snapshot.
• Dallas's Asian population share, about 4%, is from American Community Survey five-year estimates (3.8%) as reported by Neilsberg and Texas Demographics.
• Asia Times Square is in Grand Prairie, though it is filed under the Dallas city value. This guide describes it by its real location.
• Two published listings, red-stix and red-stix-street-food, appear to be the same business recorded twice. The guide cites it once and counts eighteen listings across seventeen distinct businesses. The duplicate is flagged for merging.