Soy Sauce

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score11 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 11, 2025 →
• address68-22 Main Street, Queens 11367
• cuisineJewish/Kosher
• phone7182633663

Is Soy Sauce clean?

Soy Sauce is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 11, 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 Soy Sauce?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 11, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Lighting fixture located over, by or within food storage, preparation, service or display facility, and facility where utensils and equipment are cleaned and stored, which may shatter due to extreme heat, temperature changes or accidental contact; not fitted with shatterproof bulb or shielded and encased, with end caps or other device.
• 🍽️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.
• 🐛pest / contamination issuecritical
  Properly scaled and calibrated thermometer or thermocouple not provided or not readily accessible in food preparation and hot/cold holding areas to measure temperatures of TCS foods during cooking, cooling, reheating, and holding.

When was Soy Sauce last inspected?

Soy Sauce has 2 inspections on record going back to December 18, 2023, averaging 8 points.

Soy Sauce vs Kew Gardens Hills

Kew Gardens Hills runs 82% clean across 51 tracked restaurants — 37 clean, 3 mid, 5 cooked.

Against the 51 spots Cooked tracks in Kew Gardens Hills, this one comes out cleaner than 36% 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 September 11, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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