Asian Canadian Food Brands
The Asian Canadian-owned and operated food brands you need to know.
Spice Girl Chai.
Supporting local businesses has never been more meaningful — and Asian Canadian food brands are serving up more than just delicious bites. These founders are blending culture, creativity and comfort, bringing the flavors of the diaspora to tables across Canada.
From small-batch condiments to modern takes on traditional dishes, each brand tells a story of heritage, innovation and heart.
Discover Asian Canadian food brands below.
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Full Asian Canadian Brand Directory
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Asian Canadian-Owned Jewelry Brands
Asian Canadian-Owned Beauty and Wellness Brands
Asian Canadian-Owned Lifestyle Brands
Kopi Thyme
Kopi Thyme sells gourmet Southeast Asian sauces based on traditional recipes. It all began in 2016 while Sara Tang ate a bowl of instant Laksa noodles. This sparked the concept of bringing her family’s Laksa paste into everyone’s pantry in a way that would make the food prep more time-efficient and convenient. Fuelled with the love of food and knowledge of working as a product developer in the food science industry, Tang teamed up with her friend Tao Yee Lim (also a product developer in the same industry) to create “Kopi Thyme” saucery which allows busy individuals to enjoy authentic flavours as though they were in Southeast Asia.
OHME!
OHME! is a Vancouver-based freeze-dried healthy snacks brand that offers a range of fruit snacks and yogurt crunches that burst with natural flavours. Made with love in British Columbia using locally sourced fruit where possible, OHME! was founded by Jenny and Han Yue, after kick-starting their own health journey and discovering a need for healthy, nutrient-rich snacks that didn’t compromise on taste. Versatile enough as a snack straight from the bag, mess-free for on-the-go kid snacks, and sophisticated enough to add to recipes or drinks, the shelf-stable freeze-dried bites are non-GMO, gluten-free, 100% natural, and free from added sugars, with the non-yogurt flavours being plant-based.
Ruru Baked
Toronto ice cream brand Ruru Baked is a staple of the city’s dessert scene. Owner and pastry chef Luanne Ronquillo uses egg whites in her small batch custard ice cream recipe, making Ruru Baked products denser and creamier than your standard treat. The brand is also well-known for its diverse range of flavours, including many nostalgic Asian-inspired flavours like Chè Ba Màu (a Vietnamese dessert), Mais Con Yelo (a Filipino dessert), milk tea, pandan, Calamansi Crunch (containing coconut pulvoron, a Filipino shortbread), Viet Coffee and more. Ruru Baked offers a close-looped system to reduce its environmental impact, allowing customers to drop off clean pints and lids to be washed, sanitized and reused.
Saigon Drip
Saigon Drip is a Toronto-based brand trying to take Vietnamese slow-drip coffee to the mainstream. Founded by Vietnamese-Canadian Sang Nguyen, Saigon Drip sources robusta beans directly from the Dak Lak province of central Vietnam, where they’re handpicked and roasted by multi-generational coffee farmers using traditional Vietnamese techniques. Saigon’s Drip Kit offers everything you need to make a traditional cup of Vietnamese-style coffee: a can of condensed milk, a phin filter and, of course, coffee beans.
Spice Girl Chai
Spice Girl Eats is a Toronto-based food brand by Becca Pereira. The brand started out as an Indian home-cooking pop-up as a result of the pandemic hindering Pereira’s plan to enrol in culinary school. She decided to open her own food venture with her mother, a professional chef, that specialized in true Indian home-cooking, specifically Goan cuisine.
In October 2021, Pereira launched a line of chai latte concentrates that was nine months in the making. The concentrate is adapted from an old family recipe and includes cardamom, cinnamon, clove, peppercorn and lots of fresh ginger. It’s steeped in Indian Assam Tea and sweetened with unrefined cane sugar.
“It can then be easily mixed with any type of milk or even water, plus it can also be enjoyed hot or cold! It’s easy, mess-free and you can have a proper cup of chai within minutes. It’s really a cool product,” Pereira told Taste Toronto.