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Ba Mien Seafood Market
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 6, 2025
- address6951 M L King Jr Way S, Seattle 98118
Is Ba Mien Seafood Market clean?
Ba Mien Seafood Market is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 6, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Ba Mien Seafood Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Ba Mien Seafood Market last inspected?
Ba Mien Seafood Market has 9 inspections on record going back to July 20, 2021, averaging 17 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 6, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| May 14, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| January 3, 2025 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| September 17, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| August 23, 2023 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| April 4, 2023 | Rated Good | 35 pts |
| November 21, 2022 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| February 15, 2022 | Rated Good | 25 pts |
| July 20, 2021 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
Ba Mien Seafood Market vs Rainier Valley
Rainier Valley runs 81% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 151 clean, 34 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 19% of them.
Other spots in Rainier Valley
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 October 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.