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Article: Colima Road: Neighborhood puts Cultural Face on Firms. (Chinese Prosperity - L.A.'s Growth Market).(Brief Article)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- January 21, 2002
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At the Hong Kong Supermarket in Hong Kong Plaza, the chatter among the staff is in rapid-fire Chinese and the food selection is Asian.
At the adjacent Lollicup tea station, the young women working behind the counter blend honey dew milk teas and bubble teas with swift ferocity as they gab in non-stop Chinese punctuated with bursts of laughter.
This could be Taiwan, China or Hong Kong.
But it's Colima Road, a long thoroughfare stretching between Hacienda Heights and Rowland Heights that is poised to be the area's next major Chinatown.
Already three 99 Ranch Markets dot the area, one of the largest concentrations this Orange County-based ...