• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 24, 2024 →
• address20 Kneeland St, Boston 02111

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Is Moon Flower House clean?

Moon Flower House is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 24, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Moon Flower House?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 24, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (P)critical
• ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf)
• ⚠️Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C)
• ⚠️Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (C)
• ⚠️Cleaning Agents and Sanitizers Availability (Pf)
• ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️flagged at inspection

Moon Flower House inspection and administrative history

Moon Flower House has 20 inspections on record going back to July 31, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Moon Flower House vs Chinatown

Chinatown runs 86% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 245 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 297 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 2% of them.

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How Boston grades restaurants

Boston reports inspections as a pass or a fail, with no score and no letter. What separates a bad fail from a trivial one is the violation severity ladder: a single star is a minor issue, two stars is more serious, and three stars marks a critical foodborne-illness risk factor — temperature abuse, bad handwashing, cross-contamination. A restaurant can fail on paperwork alone, which is not the same as failing on food safety. Cooked splits Boston fails accordingly: a fail with a three-star violation reads cooked, a fail on minor items only reads mid.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated January 24, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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