Yang Cheng

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 3, 2025
• address24 Kneeland St, Boston 02111

Is Yang Cheng clean?

Yang Cheng is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 3, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Yang Cheng?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Display-Preventing Contamination by Consumers (P) • Open container of dried food product observed without cover. Cover to prevent potential contamination.critical
  Food Display-Preventing Contamination by Consumers (P) • Open container of dried food product observed without cover. Cover to prevent potential contamination.
• ⚠️Prohibiting Animals (Pf) • Cat observed in store. Remove. Non service animals are not allowed in establishment.
  Prohibiting Animals (Pf) • Cat observed in store. Remove. Non service animals are not allowed in establishment.

When was Yang Cheng last inspected?

Yang Cheng has 7 inspections on record going back to July 18, 2023.

Yang Cheng 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 September 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.