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Pin Ming Bubble Tea
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 1, 2026
- address5 Beach St, Boston 02111
Is Pin Ming Bubble Tea clean?
Pin Ming Bubble Tea is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 1, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Pin Ming Bubble Tea?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 1, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Removing Dead or Trapped Birds Insects Rodents and other Pest (C) • Remove/replace the soiled glue traps from the storage room.Removing Dead or Trapped Birds Insects Rodents and other Pest (C) • Remove/replace the soiled glue traps from the storage room.
- ⚠️Cleaning Floors Dustless Methods (C) • Clean the floors behind the counter to remove soils.Cleaning Floors Dustless Methods (C) • Clean the floors behind the counter to remove soils.
When was Pin Ming Bubble Tea last inspected?
Pin Ming Bubble Tea has 43 inspections on record going back to December 21, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2026 | Pass | |
| April 24, 2026 | Fail | |
| March 18, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 9, 2026 | Fail | |
| July 9, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 2, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 7, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 24, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 2, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 19, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| June 14, 2024 | Pass |
Pin Ming Bubble Tea 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.
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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.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.