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Ba Mien Seafood Market
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedNovember 19, 2025
- address6951 M L King Jr Way S, Seattle 98118
Is Ba Mien Seafood Market clean?
Ba Mien Seafood Market is currently mid from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on November 19, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Ba Mien Seafood Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Ba Mien Seafood Market last inspected?
Ba Mien Seafood Market has 5 inspections on record going back to December 9, 2021, averaging 9 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 19, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 12 pts |
| September 17, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 10 pts |
| June 23, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 15 pts |
| August 24, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 10 pts |
| December 9, 2021 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
Ba Mien Seafood Market vs Rainier Valley
Rainier Valley runs 78% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 50 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 16% of them.
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How Seattle grades restaurants
Public Health — Seattle & King County posts a word, not a letter: Excellent, Good, Okay, or Needs To Improve. The rating is deliberately not a snapshot — it averages the establishment’s recent routine inspections, so one bad day does not sink a consistently clean kitchen and one good day does not rescue a bad one. Inspectors score violations in red points for things that directly cause foodborne illness and blue points for everything else; around 45 red points triggers a mandatory re-inspection. Newly opened or recently changed spots can show as Not Rated until enough inspections accumulate.
Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated November 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.