Lao Ke Le Shanghai Cuisine

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score26 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedAugust 7, 2025 →
• address136-20 Roosevelt Avenue, Queens 11354
• cuisineChinese
• phone9176178046

Is Lao Ke Le Shanghai Cuisine clean?

Lao Ke Le Shanghai Cuisine is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on August 7, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Lao Ke Le Shanghai Cuisine?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🌡️fridge is giving… room tempcritical
  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.
• 🪰flies in the housecritical
  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.
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.

When was Lao Ke Le Shanghai Cuisine last inspected?

Lao Ke Le Shanghai Cuisine has 5 inspections on record going back to September 6, 2023, averaging 29 points.

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Against the 656 spots Cooked tracks in Flushing, this one comes out cleaner than 13% 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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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 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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