Lotte Plaza Market

Object Details

See more items in: Asian American Foodways Project Records; Asian American Foodways Project Records / Series 3: Supermarkets and convenience stores

Sponsor: This Asian Pacific American Foodways Project received Federal support from the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.

Biographical / Historical: Lotte Plaza Market is a popular Korean/Asian supermarket chain with 14 locations across Maryland, Virginia, Florida, and New Jersey. The company began as a wholesale importer of Korean and Japanese products in 1978, and opened its first store in Rockville, Maryland, in 1989. The supermarket initially catered to local Korean and Japanese communities and has expanded to carry produce and products used by a range of Asian Pacific American and Latinx home cooks. The Rockville location moved in 2016 to occupy a building vacated by a Safeway Supermarket.

Collection Citation: Asian American Foodways Project Records, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Collection Rights: Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Scope and Contents: This subseries contains photographs, an oral history interview, and sales flyers documenting Lotte Plaza Market. Materials were created or acquired in 2020.

Collection Restrictions: Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.

Related Materials: This subseries contains artifacts catalogued in the ACM Objects collection.