Along Buford Highway alone, between the blocks numbered 4000 to 6000, you can choose among eating places with roots in Ethiopia, Mexico, Peru, the Middle East, Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand. Moroccan and Greek restaurants aren't far off that particular track in northeastern metropolitan Atlanta. And neither is the Oriental Pearl. In Atlanta you don't have ethnic city neighborhoods. Here you have ethnic suburbia.
Many smaller markets cater specifically to individual ethnic communities in metro Atlanta.
And I had thought there was only one. The big three markets pull in shoppers from the entire Southeast. She's co-owner of the place, with her husband, Robert Blazer. Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina. People come with big old ice chests and they fill them up.