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Xiong Ginseng Root
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 11, 2020
- address5 Knapp St, Boston 02111
Is Xiong Ginseng Root clean?
Xiong Ginseng Root is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 11, 2020. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Xiong Ginseng Root?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 11, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Compliance with Food Law (C) • No english labels on packaged dried foods supplyCompliance with Food Law (C) • No english labels on packaged dried foods supply
- ⚠️8-301.11 non payment of 2020 Health Permit supply payment8-301.11 non payment of 2020 Health Permit supply payment
When was Xiong Ginseng Root last inspected?
Xiong Ginseng Root has 10 inspections on record going back to April 20, 2017.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 16, 2021 | closed by the city | |
| March 11, 2020 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2020 | Fail | |
| June 18, 2019 | Pass | |
| June 10, 2019 | Fail | |
| March 5, 2018 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2018 | Fail | |
| November 9, 2017 | Pass | |
| April 27, 2017 | Pass | |
| April 20, 2017 | Fail |
Xiong Ginseng Root 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 March 11, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.