Lam’s Seafood Market

Specialties

For nearly 20 years, Seattle’s International District Lam’s Seafood Market has been serving the local community with the best quality produce, meats, and seafood at the lowest possible pricing.

Aside from Vietnamese and Southeast Asian products, Lam’s has become well known in the community for being innovative in its product selection, hard to find tropical fruit, and good customer service. With an in-​house deli show-​casing an amazing menu that rivals many of the local Pan-​Asian restaurants, Lam’s is not just an Asian grocery store but is definitely a neighborhood market to experience. Come Experience Lams!

History

Established in 1991.

Yen Lam-​Steward started working with her father at Lam’s Seafood Market from its humble beginnings on the corner of Main Street in 1991, running the cash register, scaling fish, and cleaning crab. The business began when her parents were fishermen and sold the catch of the day out of a van. Sales quickly picked up and, needing more space to sell their seafood, her father came up with the idea of opening up a market.

In 2005, Lam-Steward’s father returned to Vietnam and left the business to be run equally by Lam-​Steward and her brother. At 27 years of age, Lam-​Steward bought her brother’s share of the company to become the full owner of Lam’s Seafood. The now 32-​year-​old business owner became a mother recently, as she had hoped to do when she first acquired the business. In 2011, Lam’s Seafood was ranked by CNN Money as among the top 100 fastest growing inner city businesses in the United States.

Meet the Business Owner

Yen L.

Business Owner

One of Seattle’s youngest CEO, Lam’s Seafood Market owner Yen Lam can be seen working about the store most any day, usually cashiering or tending to the exotic fruit. She is innovative, forward thinking, and highly conscious of the needs of the community by fighting always with her vendors to maintain good pricing that she passes on to her customers.

Yen also worked with the city to implement energy efficient equipment and lighting, and adding recycling programs to minimize Lam’s carbon footprint. To this end, anyone can become a fan in Lam’s Facebook page, come to the market and get a free re-​usable grocery bag. (at least while supplies last):

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Yen is pictured with her 3 beautiful nieces. Stop by and say hi.