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Daily China Express
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score91 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 1, 2025
- address1907 Hillhurst Ave, Los Angeles 90027
Is Daily China Express clean?
Daily China Express is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 1, 2025. 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 Daily China Express?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 1, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical# 08. TIME AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CONTROL; PROCEDURES & RECORDS
- ⚠️# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD
- 🌡️thermometers missing# 36. EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- 🚻bathroom issues# 43. PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
- 📦food stored wrong# 30. FOOD PROPERLY STORED; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
When was Daily China Express last inspected?
Daily China Express has 6 inspections on record going back to November 13, 2023, averaging 92 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 1, 2025 | Grade A | 91 pts |
| January 2, 2025 | Grade A | 94 pts |
| August 12, 2024 | Grade A | 97 pts |
| March 26, 2024 | Grade A | 95 pts |
| March 13, 2024 | Grade B | 82 pts |
| November 13, 2023 | Grade A | 94 pts |
Daily China Express vs Thai Town
Thai Town runs 98% clean across 377 tracked restaurants — 369 clean, 8 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 377 spots Cooked tracks in Thai Town, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 October 1, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.