• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 27, 2018 →
• address21 Hudson St, Boston 02111

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Is New Shanghai clean?

New Shanghai is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 27, 2018. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at New Shanghai?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on August 27, 2018. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

New Shanghai inspection and administrative history

New Shanghai has 31 inspections on record going back to September 11, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

New Shanghai 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 14% of them.

Other spots in Chinatown

• ✓ Moxy Hotel
  clean · February 18, 2025
• ✓ C-Mart Herald Street
  clean · December 22, 2025
• ✓ New King Fung Garden
  clean · April 10, 2013
• ✓ Explorateur
  clean · December 3, 2019
• ✓ Bean Towne Coffee House
  clean · July 19, 2018
• ✕ Montien Restaurant
  mid · April 6, 2026

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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 August 27, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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