China Red Express

• official resultB
• gradeGrade B
• score24 pts
• inspection typeCycle Inspection / Re-inspection
• failed findings6
• critical findings4

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Failed findings

• 🧼staff skipping handwashingcritical
  Official wording: Personal cleanliness is inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn where required. Jewelry worn on hands or arms. Fingernail polish worn or fingernails not kept clean and trimmed.
  code 06ACriticalstatus: Critical
• 🧤food-handling slipcritical
  Official wording: Tobacco or electronic cigarette use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area.
  code 06BCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcritical
  Official wording: Food, supplies, or equipment not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display, service or from customer’s refillable, reusable container. Condiments not in single-service containers or dispensed directly by the vendor.
  code 06CCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🍴utensils stored sketchycritical
  Official wording: Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
  code 06ECriticalstatus: Critical
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Official wording: Anti-siphonage or back-flow prevention device not provided where required; equipment or floor not properly drained; sewage disposal system in disrepair or not functioning properly. Condensation or liquid waste improperly disposed of.
  code 10Bstatus: Not Critical
• ⚠️Food adulterated or misbranded. Adulterated or misbranded food possessed, being manufactured, produced, packed, sold, offered for sale, delivered or given away
  code 28-05status: Not Critical

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Score 26 on February 24, 2025: Score changed by -2 points. 5 findings appeared for the first time. 1 finding recurred. 4 previous findings did not recur.

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This record comes from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

Source: NYC Open Data.