Asian Grocery Store 99 Ranch Market Will Open First LI Store This Week

WESTBURY, NY — A national grocery store chain that specializes in a full range of Asian ingredients and foods will open its first Long Island store this weekend in Westbury. The 99 Ranch Market supermarket will open its doors Saturday in Samanea New York, formerly known as the Mall at the Source.

99 Ranch Market is based in California and operates 55 stores, selling Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Southeast Asian food. The stores are a full-service supermarket with fresh meat and produce.

99 Ranch Market was established in 1984 by Roger Chen, a Taiwanese immigrant who "noticed a cultural gap in the typical American supermarket [and] saw a need for an Asian supermarket in surrounding communities," according to the company's website.

Many of the chain's locations are in California, and three are in Northern New Jersey. Westbury will be the first store in New York.

Samanea New York is seeing major changes, with the addition of Empire Adventure Park and Gravity Vault after a $30 million renovation. Three Asian restaurants will also open this year: K-Pot Korean BBQ, Chuan Tian Xia and MoCa Asian Bistro in the former P.F. Changs space.