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China House
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score43 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 24, 2026
- address620 Auburn Way S, Auburn 98002
Is China House clean?
China House is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 24, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at China House?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 24, 2026, 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
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️3600 - Proper eating, tasting, drinking, or tobacco use3600 - Proper eating, tasting, drinking, or tobacco use
- ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- ⚠️1300 - Food contact surfaces cleaned and sanitized; no cross contaminationcritical1300 - Food contact surfaces cleaned and sanitized; no cross contamination
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was China House last inspected?
China House has 4 inspections on record going back to January 22, 2024, averaging 25 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 24, 2026 | Rated Okay | 43 pts |
| May 20, 2025 | Rated Okay | 20 pts |
| October 30, 2024 | Rated Okay | 25 pts |
| January 22, 2024 | Rated Okay | 13 pts |
China House vs Auburn
Auburn runs 95% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 14 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Auburn, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 March 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.