{"id":402034,"date":"2020-12-17T10:03:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T15:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/?p=402034"},"modified":"2020-12-17T10:03:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T15:03:24","slug":"chowbus-reveals-2020s-biggest-trends-in-asian-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/chowbus-reveals-2020s-biggest-trends-in-asian-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Chowbus Reveals 2020\u2019s Biggest Trends in Asian Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThe food delivery platform that promotes authentic Asian cuisine reveals what its users have been eating during the pandemic.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Chowbus<\/u><\/a>, a food-delivery platform that connects food lovers with authentic Asian food and empowers local restaurants to grow their businesses, has shared trends and details about what their users have been ordering and devouring in 2020.<\/p>\n

Chowbus aims to introduce more consumers to the variety of \u201cmom and pop\u201d restaurants serving up excellent Asian cuisine, and their unique \u201cbundling\u201d option allows diners to order dishes from multiple restaurants with just one delivery fee.<\/p>\n

Chowbus\u2019 services include delivery, pickup, and grocery services in select locations. The platform is currently available in nearly 30 cities across the United States, Canada, and Australia. These findings, based on millions of orders, reveal a few fascinating trends from the past year and forecast a strong winter for Asian cuisine.<\/p>\n

\n Major North American Trends: A New Focus on Lunch<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n

To no one\u2019s surprise, order sizes increased during the pandemic. Average order sizes sustained a 25% increase from March to present, as compared to January and February of 2020.<\/p>\n

With office workers confined to their homes for much of this year, Chowbus saw a rise in lunch traffic: the most popular time to place an order in 2020 was 12:00pm.<\/p>\n

In addition, the average lunch order frequency by user increased 144% between April 1, 2020 and November 30, 2020, compared to the pre-pandemic average.<\/p>\n

For those who are curious about regional preferences, Chowbus users\u2019 favorite cuisine of 2020 was Sichuan<\/u><\/a>, followed by Korean<\/u><\/a>, and Hunan.<\/p>\n

\n In the Battle of Rice vs. Noodles, Rice Won in a Landslide<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n

Rice dishes trumped noodle orders by 52%. If that\u2019s not impressive enough, Chowbus also reports that restaurants used nearly 8.73 tons of raw rice to make the fried rice sold through their platform in the past year.<\/p>\n

\n The Biggest Spenders<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n

The most money spent on a single order in 2020 was $2,803, which included 145 different selections from Royce Chocolate. If you\u2019re looking for recommendations, their top flavor picks were matcha and Champagne Pierre Mignon. Perhaps more impressively, there was also one customer who made more orders than anyone else: this big spender placed 624 orders between January 1, 2020 and December 14, 2020. Because we know you\u2019re wondering, their total bill for the year was $24,816.07, which means that their average price per order was $39.76.<\/p>\n

\n The Most Popular Dish of 2020<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n

With triple the order volume of any other dish on Chowbus, milk tea was the most popular dish of 2020, with over 500,000 milk tea orders. It was particularly beloved in Champaign, Seattle, and Vancouver, where in addition to being the most popular dish in the city, it was the top late night order.<\/p>\n

By city, the most popular dishes were:<\/p>\n