Hop Won Express

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score18 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedApril 28, 2025 →
• address139 East 45 Street, Manhattan 10017
• cuisineChinese
• phone2126614280

Is Hop Won Express clean?

Hop Won Express is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on April 28, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Hop Won Express?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 28, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🤒sick worker near the foodcritical
  Food worker/food vendor does not use utensil or other barrier to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment.
• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
• 🧫equipment / surface issue
  Thawing procedure improper.
• 🗑️garbage situation out of pocket
  Pesticide not properly labeled or used by unlicensed individual. Pesticide, other toxic chemical improperly used/stored. Unprotected, unlocked bait station used.

When was Hop Won Express last inspected?

Hop Won Express has 6 inspections on record going back to June 13, 2022, averaging 28 points.

Hop Won Express vs Turtle Bay-East Midtown

Turtle Bay-East Midtown runs 84% clean across 620 tracked restaurants — 460 clean, 31 mid, 56 cooked.

Against the 620 spots Cooked tracks in Turtle Bay-East Midtown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 April 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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