Asian-Owned Businesses in Tampa to Support in 2026

Eleven listings, and between them they cover seven national cuisines. Tampa's Asian-owned entries in our directory include a Lao deli, two Filipino kitchens, two Vietnamese rooms, Chinese, Japanese, sushi, and two Indian kitchens, plus the grocery market that supplies a good deal of home cooking across the city.

That range matters more than the count. Lao and Filipino food in particular are underrepresented in most American city guides, and Tampa has both.

Quick answer

1. For groceries and ingredients, MD Oriental Market.
2. For Lao food, Lao Deli.
3. For Filipino food, Filipiniana Philippine Cafe and Manila Grill Asian Fusion.
4. For Vietnamese, Ben Thanh Restaurant and Cafe Bích Nga.
5. For Indian, Flames Indian Cuisine and Fuzion Spice.
6. For Chinese, Beijing House Tampa.
7. For Japanese and sushi, Dosunco Japanese Kitchen and Blu Wave Sushi.
8. Our Tampa Bay hub carries the full list.

Where do I buy ingredients?

MD Oriental Market is the only listing here that is not a restaurant, and it is the one that changes how you cook rather than where you eat. It is an Asian grocery market carrying the produce, sauces, noodles, and frozen goods that general supermarkets stock thinly or not at all.

If you have been cooking from a recipe and substituting, this is the trip that stops you substituting.

Which cuisines are represented?

More than the count suggests. Set out as a table because the useful information here is which kitchen does what, not which is biggest.

Where	What it is
Lao Deli	Lao and wider Southeast Asian food
Filipiniana Philippine Cafe	Filipino cafe
Manila Grill Asian Fusion	Filipino crossed with wider Asian cooking
Ben Thanh Restaurant	Vietnamese
Cafe Bích Nga	Vietnamese cafe
Beijing House Tampa	Chinese
Dosunco Japanese Kitchen	Japanese
Blu Wave Sushi	Sushi
Flames Indian Cuisine	Indian
Fuzion Spice	Indian and Asian fusion

Lao Deli is the one to seek out first if you are working through this list. Lao cooking is close enough to Thai to feel familiar and different enough to be worth a separate trip, and dedicated Lao kitchens are uncommon.

The two Filipino listings are worth treating as a pair rather than alternatives: Filipiniana Philippine Cafe is the cafe version and Manila Grill Asian Fusion works across Filipino and other Asian cooking.

Are any of these paid listings?

No. All eleven are free listings, which means the information on each page came from public sources rather than from the owner filling it in.

That is worth saying plainly because it changes what you should expect. A free listing carries the basics: name, category, city, ownership tag, and where the tag came from. It does not carry photos, hours, a menu, or the owner's own description of the place. If you own one of these businesses, claiming the page costs nothing and lets you correct anything that is wrong.

What is not on this list?

Everything except food and one grocery. There is no Asian-owned doctor, dentist, accountant, attorney, contractor, salon, nail bar, tutoring center, insurance agent, or travel agent listed in Tampa in our directory.

Asian residents are about 5% of Tampa. The businesses in those categories exist; the record of them here does not, because this directory's Tampa entries came largely from food coverage. That is a gap worth closing, and closing it starts with a single listing. If you run an Asian-owned business in Tampa Bay in any category outside food, you would be the first one listed in it. 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. This matters more here than almost anywhere: a sushi bar is not evidence of a Japanese owner, an Indian restaurant is not evidence of an Indian owner, and a directory that treats a menu as proof of ownership is a directory full of confident errors. Every tag on this page traces to a source.

Tampa also has guides to its Black-owned, women-owned, LGBTQ-owned, and Latino-owned businesses, plus a general diverse-owned businesses guide.

Common mistakes

Reading eleven listings as a map of Asian Tampa. It is a map of which Tampa restaurants have been written about in sources we could verify.

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

Skipping the grocery. MD Oriental Market is the listing on this page most likely to change what you cook at home.

Expecting full listing pages. All eleven are free listings, so hours, menus, and photos are not on them.

FAQ

Sources

• Business names, categories, cities, and ownership tags come from published Inclusivity.org listings in the Tampa Bay directories (Tampa, St. Petersburg, Dunedin), queried 2026-08-15. Counts reflect that snapshot.
• Tampa's Asian population share, about 5%, is from American Community Survey five-year estimates (4.7%) as reported by Neilsberg and Florida Demographics.
• All eleven listings in this category are on the free tier as of the query date, which is why the guide says so rather than implying fuller pages exist.