Gong Cha

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedAugust 22, 2025 →
• address1698 East 14 Street, Brooklyn 11229
• cuisineCoffee/Tea
• phone6466831590

Is Gong Cha clean?

Gong Cha is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on August 22, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Gong Cha?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcritical
  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.
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical
  Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
• ⚠️Contract with a pest management professional not in place. Record of extermination activities not kept on premises.
• ⚠️Failure to post or conspicuously post healthy eating information

When was Gong Cha last inspected?

Gong Cha has 4 inspections on record going back to November 3, 2023, averaging 18 points.

Gong Cha vs Homecrest

Homecrest runs 73% clean across 136 tracked restaurants — 92 clean, 13 mid, 21 cooked.

Against the 136 spots Cooked tracks in Homecrest, this one comes out cleaner than 27% of them.

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How New York grades restaurants

New York City health inspectors score violations in points, and lower is better: 0–13 points earns an A, 14–27 a B, and 28 or more a C. Every restaurant is inspected at least once a year, and the letter has to be posted in the window. A restaurant that scores 14 or more on the first inspection of a cycle does not get a letter right away — it stays “Grade Pending” until a re-inspection settles it, which is why some spots here show an hourglass instead of a letter. Cooked only ever shows a letter the city actually posted; we never infer one from a score.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) via NYC Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated August 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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