SF Supermarket + the Pho So 1 → Pho Concept site

The valley's second Asian supermarket, the Vietnamese layer of the corridor — and next door, a pot of pho that outlived its restaurant.

Key facts

SF Supermarket (also Shun Fat; trades as Thuan Phat) is a Chinese-Vietnamese seafood-wholesaler-turned-grocery chain out of Southern California — the corridor's second big Asian market, open in 2026.
The commonly-cited 2004 date is a business-registration date; an independent opening-year source wasn't located, so the store is described as opening in the mid-2000s.
Next door, Pho So 1 served pho from 1994 — before the plaza — until it closed permanently after 31 years, in late 2025/early 2026.
Pho Concept opened in the same space on 2026-04-24 and is still trading.

Narration transcript

Look at the big market on this side — SF Supermarket — and then at the restaurant space right next to it, because together they tell you how this corridor grew past its founders.

Start with the market. This is the second big Asian supermarket on the street, and it came out of a different community. The chain behind it is Chinese-Vietnamese, out of Southern California, and it opened here in the mid-two-thousands. That matters, because Chinatown never stayed only Chinese. After the Chinese families came Vietnamese, then Korean, then Japanese, then Filipino — each adding their own markets and restaurants, until “Chinatown” became a name that covered all of Asian Las Vegas. A second supermarket, from a second community, is what that expansion looks like on the ground.

Now the space next door. For thirty-one years, a pho restaurant called Pho So 1 stood right here. It opened in 1994 — again, notice, before the plaza — and it fed this neighborhood bowls of Vietnamese noodle soup for three decades. Then, late in 2025, the crews and the caution tape showed up, and by the start of 2026 it was gone for good. Thirty-one years, closed.

But watch what happened next. Within a few months, a new pho restaurant opened in the very same space. Same address, same kind of food, new name. The restaurant died; the pot stayed on. And that's really the story of this whole corridor — individual businesses come and go, but the thing they add up to keeps going. A community outlives its storefronts.