History Main / AsianStoreowner

* While the equivalent Swedish cliché would be the Middle-Eastern shopowner, Per-Albin Singh in ''Bacon&Ägg'' and other comics in the same {{Verse}} is clearly South Asian. (He changed his first name when he moved to Sweden to fit in better but didn't want to change his surname.) His shop is always open, 24 hours a day, despite him being the only employee, but he waves questions away with vague mentioning of mysterious Oriental powers. [[spoiler: He has an identical twin-brother who co-owns the shop, but happens to be in the country illegally. They take turns staffing it.]]

* Navid Harrid played and his ([[TheFaceless always speaking from offscreen]]) wife Meena by in ''Series/StillGame'' run a cornershop in Craiglang, played by Sanjeev Kholi (Navid) voiced by Shamshad Akhtar (Meena). Muslim, Meena only speaks Hindi and Navid typically translates for her (though she is subtitled and is shown to be a DeadpanSnarker). Navid sometimes gets caught up in Jack, Victor and Winston's shenanigans.

* Navid Harrid played by Sanjeev Kholi and his [[TheFaceless always speaking from offscreen]] wife Meena voiced by Shamshad Akhtar in ''Series/StillGame'' run a cornershop in Craiglang. Muslim, Meena only speaks Hindi and Navid typically translates for her (though she is subtitled and is shown to be a DeadpanSnarker). Navid sometimes gets caught up in Jack, Victor and Winston's shenanigans.

%%* Navid in ''Series/StillGame'' and Ramesh in ''Series/FagsMagsAndBags'', both played by Sanjeev Kholi.

* In ''Film/FallingDown'', Michael Douglas's character encounters a Korean liquor store owner who gouges his customers and has no sympathy for Douglas's plight. After getting beat up and his store wrecked, the Korean man is shown to be a little more human than his interactions with Douglas would first suggest.

* The Franchise/SherlockHolmes pastiche novel '‘Literature/TheItalianSecretary '' has this trope operating in 1890s London, in the form of a Punjabi gentleman who runs a small general store almost opposite 221B Baker Street. Mrs. Hudson refuses to set foot in his shop — not on account of any racist feelings, but because she believes the premises to be haunted. Watson briefly interacts with him at the end when he goes there to buy some tobacco, and the Punjabi laments that the local superstition about his shop being haunted has kept a few potential customers away. The lament is triggered by Watson innocently commenting that he thought he saw a ghost; realising that he's upset the man, he buys more tobacco than he had originally intended to buy.

* ''Series/TheBisexual'': Deniz's parents own a store where she works, and often is rude to customers (though granted they [[{{Jerkass}} sometimes deserve it]]). Unusually they're Turkish, so West Asian, not the South Asians more common for English depictions.

!This trope is [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16794190480.31600400 under discussion]] in the Administrivia/TropeRepairShop.

Oh, you know the Asian person owns the store. They care about the money in the till. If they did not own the place, you and your gun could just have it. They do, though, so they'll either [[ShopliftAndDie blow your head off if you try anything]], or force you to do the same to them. All while speaking in a [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish ludicrous and hilarious accent]].

This trope is related to the fact that many grocery stores and corner shops in North America, UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, UsefulNotes/NewZealand, and the UK are owned by East Asians (usually Koreans), South Asians (usually Indians and Pakistanis), and West Asians (aka Middle Easterners, usually Levantine Arabs).

France, Northern Europe, Spain, and Japan have similar stereotypes, with the only real difference being the nationality of the owner. In France, the shopowner will be Moroccan or Algerian (usually a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbers Berber]])[[note]]The idiom "''l'arabe du coin''" (literally "the local Arab") means "the small convenience store in the immediate neighborhood"[[/note]], in Northern Europe an expatriate Turk (though generic Middle Eastern is also popular), and in Spain and Japan Chinese.

In Westerns, the grocer will often be Chinese, complete with opium pipe.

Can overlap with AsianRudeness.

This trope is related to the fact that many grocery stores and corner shops in North America, UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, UsefulNotes/NewZealand, and the UK are owned by East Asians (usually Koreans), South Asians (usually Indians and Pakistanis), and Middle Easterners (usually Levantine Arabs).

This trope is related to the fact that many grocery stores and corner shops in America, UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, UsefulNotes/NewZealand, and the UK are owned by East Asians (usually Koreans), South Asians (usually Indians and Pakistanis), and Middle Easterners (usually Levantine Arabs).

* The Asian-owned convenience store that's attacked by skinheads in ''Film/AmericanHistoryX''. Apparently, it used to be white-owned, but the owner went out of business and it was bought by Korean immigrants, who staffed it with mostly Hispanic workers for cheaper pay. This inspires the ire of the skinheads to attack it.

* In the ''Series/{{JAG}}'' episode "Wedding Bell Blues", Harm goes to the dry cleaner to get his Dress Whites uniform back in time for Bud’s wedding but is has been mixed up with a police uniform from another customer. The Indian owner will only help Harm locate the other customer if he agrees to take his daughter on a date.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' all have Stockwell the shopkeeper, who averts the series' [[{{Mukokuseki}} usual character designs]] by being clearly Chinese (or from a FantasyCounterpartCulture thereof). In the Japanese scripts he has a FunnyForeigner accent, though this was dropped from international versions.

** Apu isn't as aggressive as his East-Asian counterparts, but his first wife will always be the Kwik-E-Mart. He's taken multiple bullets for it, to the point that he reminisces about "the sweet kiss of hot lead" fondly. Though Apu generally seems to be willing to cooperate with potential robbers, and it simply appears that they are just fond of shooting him (and he always seems to come out of it well). It's gotten to the extent where he and Snake have something approaching marriage counseling as Snake has taken to robbing Apu's brother instead. He's developed very specific opinions concerning the rope he's tied up with, including quality, knots, and materials. In one episode ("Much Apu About Something"), he even comes to butt heads with his nephew (who has decided to rebuild the Kwik-E-Mart to conform to modern standards) who decries Apu as a [[StopBeingStereotypical stereotype]] while Apu [[{{Hypocrite}} points out that his nephew is also a stereotype]] (that of the hipster) and the only difference between them is that [[AtLeastIAdmitIt Apu doesn't go out of his way to deny who he is]].

%%* Navid in ''Series/StillGame'' and his {{Expy}} Ramesh in ''Series/FagsMagsAndBags'', both played by Sanjeev Kholi.

France, Northern Europe, Spain, and Japan have similar stereotypes, with the only real difference being the nationality of the owner. In France, the shopowner will be Moroccan or Algerian (usually a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbers Berber]]), in Northern Europe an expatriate Turk (though generic Middle Eastern is also popular), and in Spain and Japan Chinese.

France, Northern Europe, and Spain have similar stereotypes, with the only real difference being the nationality of the owner. In France, the shopowner will be Moroccan or Algerian (usually a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbers Berber]]), in Northern Europe an expatriate Turk (though generic Middle Eastern is also popular), and in Spain Chinese.

** Apu once left a small child in charge of the store when he had to be elsewhere in one episode. The child quickly pulled a gun larger than himself on [[GangOfBullies Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney]].

France, Northern Europe, and Spain have similar stereotypes, with the only real difference being the nationality of the owner. In France the shopowner will be Moroccan or Algerian (usually a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbers Berber]]), in Northern Europe an expatriate Turk (though generic Middle Eastern is also popular), and in Spain Chinese.

* A recurring sketch of [[Series/MindOfMencia Carlos Mencia]] has him portraying an Indian convenience store owner who routinely insulted his customers. In another sketch he is hosting the racial stereotype Olympics and the final round is a tie-breaker between the black and Hispanic contestants. The event is who is the better looter and for added hilarity he asks the Asian contestant to pretend to be one of these yelling "Why you take?" in a stereotypical accent as the other two contestants grab their stuff and run.

* While the equivalent Swedish cliché would be the Middle-Eastern shopowner, Per-Albin Singh in ''Bacon&Ägg'' and other comics in the same {{Verse}} is clearly South Asian. (He changed his first name when he moved to Sweden to fit in better, but didn't want to change his surname.) His shop is always open, 24 hours a day, despite him being the only employee, but he waves questions away with vague mentioning of mysterious Oriental powers. [[spoiler: He has an identitical twin-brother who co-owns the shop, but happens to be in the country illegaly. They take turns staffing it.]]

* An Asian shop keeper in ''Film/TheDoomGeneration'' gets his head blown off during a shootout and remains alive for a few days. Yeah, it's an odd movie.

* The movie ''Film/{{Friday}}'' features a Chinese store owner randomly rising from the counter with a grin on his face once Craig and Smokey enter the store. The store has a sign reading "Black Owned" can be seen before we see him, and that he's dressed very urban.
* ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'': Mr. Wing is your stereotypical mystical store owner who looks a bit frightening, judges you harshly, and refuses to sell anything if he thinks you aren't ready to handle it. Deconstructed to a degree in the first film, with Mr. Wing's grandson badgering him that his pernickety attitude has turned the store into a money pit, which is the reason why he sells Gizmo to Randall behind his grandfather's back, [[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom making him responsible for all of the mayhem that follows]].
* Used in the movie ''Film/ItCouldHappenToYou'', where Nicolas Cage's cop character realizes that [[spoiler:a robbery is taking place because one of the normally overly work-obessed Asian store owners isn't present]].
* A Vietnamese shop owner in ''Film/{{The Ladykillers|2004}}'' turns out to be a brutal former North Vietnamese general who is willing to join the heist and even murder the lady of the title. [[spoiler:His stereotypical chain smoking ultimately proves to be his downfall.]]

* The opening conversation for ''Film/PulpFiction'' includes a lament about how this trope has made knocking over convenience stores nearly impossible, since many such store owners don't speak enough English to understand "Open the fucking register!" (Alternately, the storeowners are Jewish, in which case their family has owned the store for generations, and they're naturally quite defensive of it.)

* ''Film/TrainingDay'' features a quick scene where Denzel Washington's character chases a black hoodlum through an Korean shop and asks the owners which way he went in Korean.
* In an nontypical example, ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' takes place in a rural Nevada community with a general store owned by the only Asian around.

* In mystery novel ''Literature/NineDragons'', murder victim John Li was found shot to death in his own store. He was an immigrant from China who is very traditional. This caused some tension with his son Robert, who is American-born and doesn't want to pay the Triad any more.
* At the beginning of ''Absolute Rage'', an illegal immigrant from a small East Asian ethnic group operates a store in New York's Chinatown when he is threatened by a Latino robber. The store owner kills him, cut off his head and displays it in front of his store as a warning. Needless to say, this gets him arrested. The owner is essentially adopted the Chinese community afterward and a race war between Latinos and Chinese nearly breaks out. The protagonist, New York's chief prosecutor, has to deal with the mess. (No, that's not the main plot.)

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Mr Gorriff from ''Literature/{{Jingo}}''. He's Klatchian, but he fits the the British variation of the archetype, as Klatch parodies India as well as Arabia and Turkey in this story. Indeed, Klatch seems to be generic "foreign" as far as Ankh-Morpork is concerned. He even [[ShopliftAndDie keeps a crossbow under the counter]] although [[ReliablyUnreliableGuns it's unreliable]]. In fact, Vimes thinks the only way a person could reliably hurt someone with it was by using it as a club.

* During Season 4 of ''Series/TwentyFour'', Jack is pursued by mercenaries in a blacked out L.A. He seeks refuge in a sporting goods store, which turns out to be owned by two Arab men. They wind up helping Jack in the subsequent shootout. This presence was actually included due to criticism by Arab civil rights group about the preponderance of sinister Arabs in Season 4.
%%* Han "Bryce" Lee the diner owner in ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls''.

* In the ''Series/{{JAG}}'' episode "Wedding Bell Blues", Harm goes to the dry cleaner to get his Dress Whites uniform back in time for Bud’s wedding, but is has been mixed up with a police uniform from another customer. The Indian owner will only help Harm locate the other customer if he agrees to take his daughter on a date.
* ''Series/KimsConvenience'' stars the Kims, a Korean family who own the titular convenience store in Canada. The two owners are Korean immigrants Mr and Mrs Kim, and their Canadian-born daughter in college also helps out (with her father adamant on her inheriting the store). The married couple have a (realistic) case of AsianSpeekeeEngrish, and Mr Kim in particular can come off as [[AsianRudeness cranky]] and obsessive with his store, but they otherwise make an effort to get along with their customers and the regulars in return do appear to genuinely like the Kims.

** A recurring character is Iqbal, who was running the store on the day that Earl got the winning lottery ticket. In early episodes, he speaks no English and needs Patty to translate for him, though he does seem to be picking up the language in later episodes. He is shown to be a CovertPervert: he watched an orgy in a phone booth, and is a frequent client of Patty the Daytime Hooker. However, it's not known whether Iqbal actually ''owns'' that convenience store, or just works there.

* In episode "Appointment in Samarra" of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Dean gets to be a GrimReaper for a day. His first assignment brings him in a store owned by an Asian guy, in the middle of a robbery. The robber threatens to [[KickTheDog kill the owner's son]] if he doesn't comply, and when he bends to pick up the money the owner takes a gun under the drawer and shoots him. Dean then lets the robber agonize a little before finally "reaping" him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Roger talks Stan into a robbery spree to pay off a bet; the second one they go for has Roger get his ass kicked in the background by a recognizably Asian pair of storeowners.

** Apu isn't as aggressive as his East-Asian counterparts, but his first wife will always be the Kwik-E-Mart. He's taken multiple bullets for it, to the point that he reminisces about "the sweet kiss of hot lead" fondly. Though Apu generally seems to be willing to cooperate with potential robbers, and it simply appears that they are just fond of shooting him (and he always seems to come out of it well). It's gotten to the extent where he and Snake have something approaching marriage counseling as Snake has taken to robbing Apu's brother instead. He's developed very specific opinions concerning the rope he's tied up with, including quality, knots, and materials. In one episode ("Much Apu About Something") he even comes to butt heads with his nephew (who has decided to rebuild the Kwik-E-Mart to conform to modern standards) who decries Apu as a [[StopBeingStereotypical stereotype]] while Apu [[{{Hypocrite}} points out that his nephew is also a stereotype]] (that of the hipster) and the only difference between them is that [[AtLeastIAdmitIt Apu doesn't goes out of his way to deny who he is]].

** Other Asian businesspeople on ''The Simpsons'' include a Thai restaurant owner [[InterchangeableAsianCultures (who teaches Bart to be a ninja)]], the staff of the Happy Sumo Japanese restaurant (including Akira, whom has a second job teaching karate classes), an elderly couple who run a Chinese restaurant and play up stereotypes to appeal to customers, and a creepy old Chinese man in an alley who sells toys that turn out to be demonically possessed (in a Halloween special). Shelbyville is also shown to have its own version of the Kwik-E-Mart called the Speed-E-Mart, which is run by an East-Asian man in "The Lemon of Troy".

* Creator/RusselPeters, a comedian who specializes in exploiting and making fun of cultural stereotypes, has used this trope several times, most notably his "Be a Man!" bit.

This trope is directly related to the fact that many grocery stores and corner shops in America, UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, UsefulNotes/NewZealand, and the UK are owned by East Asians (usually Koreans), South Asians (usually Indians and Pakistanis), and Middle Easterners (usually Levantine Arabs).

* A recurring sketch of ''[[Series/MindOfMencia Carlos Mencia]]'' has him portraying an Indian convenience store owner who routinely insulted his customers. In another sketch he is hosting the racial stereotype Olympics and the final round is a tie-breaker between the black and Hispanic contestants. The event is who is the better looter and for added hilarity he asks the Asian contestant to pretend to be one of these yelling "Why you take?" in a stereotypical accent as the other two contestants grab their stuff and run.
* Creator/BernardManning would ask if there were Asians in attendance at his shows. If there were, he'd ask who was minding the shop.
* One of Creator/MargaretCho's early routines began with her saying "Hi, my name is Margaret Cho and I'm Korean. But I don't, like, own a store or anything." Slightly subverted in that her parents ''did'' own a bookstore in San Francisco when she was a child.

* The opening conversation for ''Film/PulpFiction'' includes a lament about how this trope has made knocking over convenience stores nearly impossible, since many such store owners don't speak enough English to understand "Open the fucking register!" (Alternately, the storeowners are Jewish, in which case their family has owned the store for generations, and they're naturally quite defensive of it.)
* In ''Film/FallingDown'', Michael Douglas's character encounters a Korean liquor store owner who gouges his customers and has no sympathy for Douglas's plight. After getting beat up and his store wrecked, the Korean man is shown to be a little more human than his interactions with Douglas would first suggest.
* A Vietnamese shop owner in ''Film/TheLadykillers2004'' turns out to be a brutal former North Vietnamese general who is willing to join the heist and even murder the lady of the title. [[spoiler:His stereotypical chain smoking ultimately proves to be his downfall.]]
* Used in the movie ''Film/ItCouldHappenToYou'', where Nicolas Cage's cop character realized that [[spoiler: a robbery was taking place because one of the normally overly work-obessed Asian store owners wasn't present]].
* The Korean shop owner from ''Film/DoTheRightThing''. He's able to fend off the angry black mob that torches the Italian pizzeria by claiming that he's "black too." This was inspired by a RealLife story mentioned in ''The Autobiography of Malcolm X''. During the Harlem riot of 1935, a convenience store was spared looting and burning when the Asian owners hung a sign in the window saying that they were colored too. The irony is that the Korean shop owner really ''is'' more racist than the Italian restaurant owner.

* The convenience store from ''Film/MalibusMostWanted'', which "B-rad" (Brad) is forced to rob. It turns out the store gets robbed all the time, so he (and his wife and kid) are prepared and armed to the teeth.
-->'''Brad "B-Rad G" Gluckman:''' Y'all never been robbed?\\
'''Asian store owner:''' Sure. Last week was 54 time. But they were cool. No gun to head, never scream. You know, good people.
* In an nontypical example, ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' takes place in a rural Nevada community with a general store owned by the only Asian around.

* ''Film/MenaceIISociety'', which starts with the protagonist and [[HairTriggerTemper his friend]] being treated with such suspicion and rudeness by an Asian store owner and his wife that he ends up shooting them both.
* There are a couple of Asian shop owners in the opening scene of ''Film/LoadedWeapon1''. They helped in the shoot-out, then verbally abused Luger for it.
* In ''Film/RumbleInTheBronx'', Creator/JackieChan's character's uncle starts out as one before selling his store to an Asian woman. Given that it sells Chinese-style conveniences, this makes sense.
* The Iranian man Farhad in ''Film/{{Crash}}'' owns a convenience store, and buys [[ChekhovsGun a gun]] for self-defense after it gets robbed and sprayed with racist graffiti in the middle of the night.
* Both versions of ''Film/TrueGrit'' feature the Chinese Grocer who smokes an opium pipe and rents a back room to Rooster.
* The movie ''Film/{{Friday}}'' features a Chinese store owner randomly rising from the counter with a grin on his face once Craig and Smokey enter the store. The store has a sign reading "Black Owned" can be seen before we see him, and that he's dressed very urban.

* ''Film/TrainingDay'' features a quick scene where Denzel Washington's character chases a black hoodlum through an Korean shop and asks the owners which way he went in Korean.
* In ''Film/RomperStomper'', a group of skinheads are enraged when they learn that their local watering hole has been bought out by a Vietnamese-Australian businessman. This leads to an epic clash between the skinheads and the local Vietnamese population.
* ''Film/DickTracy'' (1990) shows the gangster Ribs Mocca extorting money from a Chinese shop owner when he is arrested by Tracy.
* Creator/BifNaked plays one in the Canadian film ''The Boys Club.''

* Mr Gorriff from ''Literature/{{Jingo}}''. He's Klatchian, but he fits the the British variation of the archetype, as Klatch parodies India as well as Arabia and Turkey in this story. Indeed Klatch seems to be generic "foreign" as far as Ankh-Morpork is concerned.) He even [[ShopliftAndDie keeps a crossbow under the counter]] although [[ReliablyUnreliableGuns it's unreliable]]. In fact, Vimes thinks the only way a person could reliably hurt someone with it was by using it as a club.
* In the first Joe Sixsmith novel (a British mystery series), there is a South Asian convenience store owner who is victimized by the chavs in the neighborhood, and his store is eventually burnt down. [[spoiler: by him as part of an insurance scam / FramingTheGuiltyParty toward the chavs]].
* The Chinese store owner in John Steinbeck's ''Literature/CanneryRow''.
* At the beginning of ''Absolute Rage'', an illegal immigrant from a small East Asian ethnic group operates a store in New York's Chinatown when he is threatened by a Latino robber. The store owner killed him, cut off his head and displayed it in front of his store as a warning. Needless to say, this got him arrested. The owner was essentially adopted the Chinese community afterward and a race war between Latinos and Chinese nearly broke out. The protagonist, New York's chief prosecutor, had to deal with the mess. (No, that's not the main plot.)
* Raj, a recurring character in the children's books written by Creator/DavidWalliams.
* In ''Literature/GoodOmens'', Mr Rajit runs Rajit's Newsagents and Video Rental on the ground floor of the building that also contains the Witchfinder Army headquarters (i.e. Witchfinder-Sergeant Shadwell's flat). Shadwell, whose paranioa about witches easily shifts into regular bigotry, suspects him of being a voodoo practitioner, despite Newt pointing out they don't ''have'' voodoo in Bangladesh.

* Though not seen yet, on ''Series/{{Selfie}}'', Korean John Cho says his parents own a Buca Di Beppo (Italian restaurant), playing with the obvious Asian people own an Asian restaurant gag.
* Mr. Park in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother''.
* Navid in ''Series/StillGame'' and his {{Expy}} Ramesh in ''Series/FagsMagsAndBags'', both played by Sanjeev Kholi.
* During Season 4 of ''Series/TwentyFour'', Jack is pursued by mercenaries in a blacked out L.A. He seeks refuge in a sporting goods store, which turns out to be owned by two Arab men. They wind up helping Jack in the subsequent shootout.
** This presence was actually included due to criticism by Arab civil rights group about the preponderance of sinister Arabs in Season 4.

* Featured in both the [[Series/ShamelessUK original UK]] and [[Series/ShamelessUS American remake]] of ''Shameless'', but subverted in that the owner of the store, Kash, is mild-mannered and reluctant to use violence while his wife is a perfect embodiment of the stereotype.
* Han "Bryce" Lee the diner owner in ''Series/TwoBrokeGirls''.
* In episode "Appointment in Samarra" of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Dean gets to be a GrimReaper for a day. His first assignment brings him in a store owned by an Asian guy, in the middle of a robbery. The robber threatens to [[KickTheDog kill the owner's son]] if he doesn't comply, and when he bends to pick up the money the owner takes a gun under the drawer and shoots him. Dean then lets the robber agonize a little before finally 'reaping' him.
-->'''Robber:''' Why?\\
'''Dean:''' Mostly because you're a dick. Enjoy [[{{Hell}} the ride down]], pal. Trust me -- sauna gets hot.
* The Chinese family that owns the store in ''Series/RobsonArms''.

* Dev Alahan from ''Series/CoronationStreet'' owns D&S Corner Shop.
* One of the missing people in a ''Series/WithoutATrace'' was the daughter of a husband and wife pair of these.
* A recurring character on ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' is Iqbal, who was running the store on the day that Earl got the winning lottery ticket. In early episodes, he speaks no English and needs Patty to translate for him, though he does seem to be picking up the language in later episodes. He is shown to be a CovertPervert: he watched an orgy in a phone booth, and is a frequent client of Patty the Daytime Hooker. However, it's not known whether Iqbal actually ''owns'' that convenience store, or just works there.
** Two other such unnamed characters were seen in an early episode where Earl is teaching ESL classes to make up for making fun of people's accents. Earl is seen at the store with his friend Ralph, who wants them to get back to their old stealing and mayhem-causing ways, but Earl doesn't want his students to see that. All they can say in English is "[[TitleDrop My Name is Earl]]."

* In ''Series/HowToBeIndie'', Indie's best friend is Abi Flores: a Filipina whose parents have owned the Happy Breezy Food Hut since she was 5 years old.

* The music video for Dan Seals' 1989 country hit "They Rage On" featured an Asian store owner; he was the father of a teenage girl who falls in love with a white boy. The store is vandalized, and the white boy, the Asian girl and the girl's family are the subject of hateful attacks in what on the surface appears to be a typical small town.
* British band Music/{{Cornershop}} (led by Tjinder Singh) was named in mockery of the Asian Store Owner stereotype in the UK.

* Music/IceCube's "''Black Korea''" is a particularly controversial example.

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* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest: Open Season'' had one.

* While entering convenience or liquor stores in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', the cashier will almost always be South or East Asian.
-->''Get the fucking out!\\
Shoplifters will be persecuted!''

* Mr. Bak Mei and Ms Haseguk of ''Webcomic/TalesOfAGayAsian''.

* ''WebVideo/WhereTheBearsAre'': The clerk at the Stockroom seems to fit... at first. [[spoiler:It turns out that she is a {{Dominatrix}} who manhandles the bears and chides Nelson for falling for the Asian stereotype act.]]

** Other Asian businesspeople on ''The Simpsons'' include a Thai restaurant owner [[InterchangeableAsianCultures (who teaches Bart to be a ninja)]], the staff of the Happy Sumo Japanese restaurant (including Akira, whom has a second job teaching karate classes), an elderly couple who run a Chinese restaurant and play up stereotypes to appeal to customers, and a creepy old Chinese man in an alley who sells toys that turn out to be demonically possessed (in a Halloween special). Shelbyville is also shown to have its own version of the Kwik-E-Mart called the Speed-E-Mart, which is run by an East-Asian man in ''The Lemon of Troy''.
* Uncle Chan from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' is the owner of Uncle's Rare Finds, an antique shop in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood that deals in old and valuable artifacts from other countries. Uncle is also quite a [[AsianRudeness grouchy]] [[GrumpyOldMan geezer]] with little patience, who must occasionally use his own[[note]](or his nephew Jackie's / employee Tohru's)[[/note]] martial arts skills to defend the store from their enemies.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Minoriteam}}'' features Nonstop, a walking Indian stereotype who is immune to all small arms fire. The name is a pun on "quick stop", or convenience store, and his invulnerability references the fact that they get robbed at gunpoint a lot.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', when Dante and Randal reminisce about a time they worked at a Quick Stop in India as part of an exchange program:
-->'''Customer:''' "Why are you convenience store guys always American? ''Speak Hindi!''"
* ''WesternAnimation/PurnoDePurno'' has Dr. Ha Chiu, a Chinese man who runs an Asian store selling various potion-like substances. A few episodes revolved around Purno, the main character, taking one of the substances from the store and suffering its effects for the duration of the episode.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Roger talks Stan into a robbery spree to pay off a bet; the second one they go for has Roger get his ass kicked in the background by a recognizably Asian pair of storeowners.

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->[[TheStinger Thank you, come again!]]

* While the equivalent Swedish cliché would be the Middle-Eastern shopowner, Per-Albin Singh in ''Bacon&Ägg'' and other comics in the same {{Verse}} is clearly East Asian. (He changed his first name when he moved to Sweden to fit in better, but didn't want to change his surname.) His shop is always open, 24 hours a day, despite him being the only employee, but he waves questions away with vague mentioning of mysterious Oriental powers. [[spoiler: He has an identitical twin-brother who co-owns the shop, but happens to be in the country illegaly. They take turns staffing it.]]