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Blue Lotus Vietnamese Cuisine
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score90 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedSeptember 25, 2024
- address21705 S Main St, Carson 90745
Is Blue Lotus Vietnamese Cuisine clean?
Blue Lotus Vietnamese Cuisine is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on September 25, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Blue Lotus Vietnamese Cuisine?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 25, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted# 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
- ⚠️# 16. COMPLIANCE WITH SHELF STOCK TAGS, CONDITION, DISPLAYED# 16. COMPLIANCE WITH SHELF STOCK TAGS, CONDITION, DISPLAYED
- 🌡️hot/cold holding temps offcritical# 07. PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- ⚠️# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD
- 🌡️thermometers missing# 36. EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- ⚠️# 34. WAREWASHING FACILITIES: ADEQUATE, MAINTAINED, PROPERLY USE, TEST STRIPS AVAILABLE# 34. WAREWASHING FACILITIES: ADEQUATE, MAINTAINED, PROPERLY USE, TEST STRIPS AVAILABLE
When was Blue Lotus Vietnamese Cuisine last inspected?
Blue Lotus Vietnamese Cuisine has 3 inspections on record going back to December 26, 2023, averaging 84 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 25, 2024 | Grade A | 90 pts |
| January 29, 2024 | Grade A | 90 pts |
| December 26, 2023 | Grade C | 73 pts |
Blue Lotus Vietnamese Cuisine vs West Carson
West Carson runs 93% clean across 397 tracked restaurants — 368 clean, 23 mid, 6 cooked.
Against the 397 spots Cooked tracks in West Carson, this one comes out cleaner than 7% of them.
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How Los Angeles grades restaurants
Los Angeles County posts a letter placard in the window, and unlike New York the score runs the friendly way: higher is better. 90 to 100 points earns an A, 80 to 89 a B, and anything below that a C. The county inspects roughly every six months to a year depending on risk, and a failed inspection can close a kitchen until it is fixed. Because LA’s scores are final at the time of inspection — there is no pending window — a letter can be read straight off the score when the placard field is blank.
Source: LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health via LA County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated September 25, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.