Aji Ichiban
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Aji Ichiban | |||||||||||||
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An outlet in a Hong Kong MTR station | |||||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||||
Chinese: | 優之良品 | ||||||||||||
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Japanese name | |||||||||||||
Kanji: | 優の良品 / 味一番 [1] | ||||||||||||
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Aji Ichiban is one of the largest snack food franchises founded in Hong Kong. There are over 90 international locations in varying international destinations.
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[edit] Product
Items sold vary by location and encompass a wide range of flavors from both East Asian and American cuisines, including beef jerky, dried apricots, Skittles, chocolates, nonpareils, spicy dried fish, plum tablets, chili olives, fried and shredded squid, shrimp crackers, hot dog and hamburger shaped gummy candies, wasabi peas, etc.[2] In addition to providing products based on gustatory appeal, many Aji Ichiban shops carry items that have ties to traditional Eastern remedies. The stores have small bowls of samples for most of the snack items - mainly dried fruit and seafood preparations - so that customers can taste the snacks before they buy them.
[edit] International Locations
[edit] United States
In the United States, Aji Ichiban USA was founded in 2000 as an exclusive franchise and they have stores in New York City, in Chinatown around Manhattan and Queens, as well as in the Chinatowns in Chicago, Richardson, TX, and San Gabriel, CA and Gaithersburg, Maryland a suburb of Washington, DC. Many Chinese political leaders have paid visits to these stores.