Shun Lee

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score16 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedOctober 15, 2025 →
• address37 West 65 Street, Manhattan 10023
• cuisineChinese
• phone2125958895

Is Shun Lee clean?

Shun Lee is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 15, 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 Shun Lee?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 15, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧫food contact surfaces dirty
  Design, construction, materials used or maintenance of food contact surface improper. Surface not easily cleanable, sanitized and maintained.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
• 🧽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.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  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.
• 🐀rats have moved incritical
  Evidence of rats or live rats in establishment's food or non-food areas.

When was Shun Lee last inspected?

Shun Lee has 5 inspections on record going back to October 26, 2022, averaging 24 points.

Shun Lee vs Lincoln Square

Lincoln Square runs 87% clean across 220 tracked restaurants — 172 clean, 6 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 220 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 October 15, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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