Ellie's Chinese Restaurant

• official resultScore 27
• score27 pts
• inspection typeCycle Inspection / Initial Inspection
• failed findings5
• critical findings4

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Failed findings

• 🌡️fridge is giving… room tempcritical
  Official wording: Cold TCS food item held above 41 °F; smoked or processed fish held above 38 °F; intact raw eggs held above 45 °F; or reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) TCS foods held above required temperatures except during active necessary preparation.
  code 02GCriticalstatus: Critical
• ❓food from a mystery sourcecritical
  Official wording: Food, prohibited, from unapproved or unknown source, home canned or home prepared. Animal slaughtered, butchered or dressed (eviscerated, skinned) in establishment. Reduced Oxygen Packaged (ROP) fish not frozen before processing. ROP food prepared on premises transported to another site.
  code 03ACriticalstatus: Critical
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Official wording: Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
  code 04MCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🪰flies in the housecritical
  Official wording: Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage associated with (FRSA) flies or other nuisance pests in establishment’s food and/or non-food areas. FRSA flies include house flies, blow flies, bottle flies, flesh flies, drain flies, Phorid flies and fruit flies.
  code 04NCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Official wording: Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
  code 08Astatus: Not Critical

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with A on March 28, 2023: Score changed by +15 points. 5 findings appeared for the first time. 3 previous findings did not recur.

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About this record

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.