By Gene Balk
From The Seattle Times
Seattle—It’s no secret that Seattle-area diners love Asian cuisine. Now there’s data that proves just how much.
King County is one of just eight U.S. counties where at least 25 percent of restaurants serve Asian food, according to a new report from Pew Research Center.
Pew analyzed data from SafeGraph, a company that gathers high-precision data on millions of places, including all known restaurants in the United States. According to SafeGraph, the U.S. has more than 787,000 restaurants across the nation and 12 percent of them serve Asian food. That share is higher than the 7 percent of the U.S. population that is Asian….