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Penang
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 25, 2026
- address687 Washington St, Boston 02116
Is Penang clean?
Penang is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 25, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Penang?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 25, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C) • Items in the freezer units missing covers/wraps.Provide covers /wraps during storage.Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C) • Items in the freezer units missing covers/wraps.Provide covers /wraps during storage.
- ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Clean the interior panel of the ice machine to remove soils.(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Clean the interior panel of the ice machine to remove soils.
- ⚠️Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • The hood sticker is missing from above the seperate appetizer grill.Provide current stickerCleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • The hood sticker is missing from above the seperate appetizer grill.Provide current sticker
- ⚠️Provide a current Choke safe certificate from a full time employee.Provide a current Choke safe certificate from a full time employee.
When was Penang last inspected?
Penang has 53 inspections on record going back to March 12, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 25, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 19, 2026 | Fail | |
| November 3, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 13, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 1, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 24, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 10, 2024 | — | |
| May 20, 2024 | Pass | |
| May 13, 2024 | Fail | |
| July 5, 2023 | Pass | |
| June 26, 2023 | Fail |
Penang vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% of them.
Other spots in Chinatown
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.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated March 25, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.