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Himalayan Grocery is a family-owned Nepali store at 1406 Minnesota Ave in downtown Kansas City, Kansas, stocking South Asian groceries alongside clothing and jewelry.1 Its own page describes it more precisely as an “Indian, Nepali, Burmese, Asian store” selling “Rice, Pan, Chapatey, and other grocery products” — a stock list that maps onto the specific mix of communities resettled in Wyandotte County, not onto a generic South Asian shelf.2 The owner is recorded by the refugee-services directory RefugeKC only as Hari; no surname is published in any source located, and none is invented here.1 Tier 1 — family-owned, owner-operated, single location.

Phone note: two numbers are on record — (913) 602-8785 on the store’s own Facebook page, and (913) 401-5462 in the RefugeKC directory.21 Both are recorded; neither is preferred over the other without a call to establish which is live.

Name note: listings appear under both Himalayan Grocery and Himalaya Grocery at this address. The store’s own page uses Himalayan, and that is the form used here.

Description

Himalayan Grocery sells the pantry of the Nepali, Bhutanese-Nepali, Indian and Burmese households resettled in Wyandotte County, plus the clothing and ornament that go with them.

From the store’s own description: rice, pan (betel-leaf paan), chapati, “and other grocery products.”2

From RefugeKC’s account: “colorful South Asian food, clothes, jewelry” — a family-owned Nepali store.1 The store has separately advertised jewelry availability on its own page.2

That the same shop stocks Nepali, Indian and Burmese goods is the point worth noting. It is not three specialisms; it is one shop serving the several distinct refugee and immigrant communities that Wyandotte County resettlement placed within walking distance of each other, none of them individually large enough to support a dedicated grocery. The Minnesota Avenue location matters for the same reason — it is the main street of downtown KCK, on transit, rather than a suburban strip.

Himalayan Grocery is the retail counterpart to the metro’s Nepali kitchens — flavor-of-himalaya and aromatic-nepal cook the food; this is where a household buys the ingredients to cook it at home.

Ownership and history

The store is described by RefugeKC — the refugee-services directory maintained for and about Kansas City’s resettled communities — as a family-owned Nepali store, with the owner given as Hari.1

No surname is published. RefugeKC lists owners of the businesses in its directory by first name throughout, a convention that reflects how the businesses are known in their communities rather than an omission. The Registry does not supply the missing half of a name. Any surname appearing on this page in future must carry its own source.

The founding date is not documented. The store’s Facebook page has been active since at least 2023, and a Kansas limited-liability company registration exists under the name Himalayan Grocery LLC, but the filing record was behind a paywall on this pass and its dates were not read; nothing is asserted from it.3 Opening year is “.

menu_status: unverified.

Himalayan Grocery is a retail grocery, which would ordinarily make this na. It is not marked na because two threads leave prepared food genuinely open:

  1. The store’s own stock list names chapati and pan — items that in a shop of this kind may be made on site or may be packaged retail, and the sources do not distinguish.2
  2. A member of the public asked on the store’s own page, “Do you make MoMo in the grocery store?” — the Nepali dumpling. No published answer to that question was found.2

No prices are recorded on this page. No first-party menu, posted board photograph, or own ordering page exists. No delivery-platform listing was used and none would be carried if it did.

A visit should establish whether any counter food — momo, chapati, samosa, tea — is sold, and if so, prices from the posted board.

Sources

Footnotes

  1. “Groceries,” RefugeKC (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: Himalayan Grocery, 1406 Minnesota Ave, Kansas City, KS 66102; owner given as “Hari” (no surname published); phone (913) 401-5462; hours Sunday–Saturday, 10am–7pm; described as a “family owned Nepali store that sells colorful South Asian food, clothes, jewelry”; the store appears as a current featured entry in the directory as of the access date. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  2. Himalayan Grocery, Facebook page (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: page name “Himalayan Grocery”, category “Grocery Store”, 497 followers; intro text “Indian, Nepali, Burmese, Asian store. We provide Rice, Pan, Chapatey, and other grocery products”; address given by the business as “1406 Minesota avenue, Kansas City, KS” [sic]; phone (913) 602-8785; email himalayangrocery99@gmail.com; a configured hours schedule (page displayed “Closed now” at access time, indicating hours are set); “Not yet rated (2 Reviews)”; a post dated 1 October 2023 reading “Jewelry available.” and linking the store’s TikTok; a public comment on that post asking “Do you make MoMo in the grocery store?” with no published reply; photographs uploaded to the page as recently as early 2025. No post dated 2026 was visible. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  3. “Himalayan Grocery LLC in Kansas City, KS,” Bizapedia entity record (accessed 2026-08-13). Asserts: a record page exists under this entity name and state. The record itself was behind a subscription wall and was not read; no filing date, status, agent or officer is taken from it. Listed only so a later pass can go straight to the Kansas Secretary of State for the primary record. ↩

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On the record — ks.city/registry/himalayan-grocery-kck · record updated 2026-08-13