Circle Chinese Cuisine

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score47 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedJuly 30, 2026 →
• address1734 Central Ave S, Kent 98032

Is Circle Chinese Cuisine clean?

Circle Chinese Cuisine is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 30, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Circle Chinese Cuisine?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 30, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• ⚠️4900 - Adequate ventilation; lighting; designated areas used
• ⚠️3700 - In-use utensils properly stored
• 🛠️equipment grimy or busted
  4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
• ⚠️1200 - Proper shellstock ID; wild mushroom ID; parasite destruction procedures for fishcritical
• ⚠️1300 - Food contact surfaces cleaned and sanitized; no cross contaminationcritical
• 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical
  1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
• ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable

When was Circle Chinese Cuisine last inspected?

Circle Chinese Cuisine has 6 inspections on record going back to December 6, 2023, averaging 44 points.

Circle Chinese Cuisine vs Kent

Kent runs 78% clean across 365 tracked restaurants — 283 clean, 77 mid, 5 cooked.

Against the 365 spots Cooked tracks in Kent, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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.

Read the Seattle ratings guide →

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: Public Health — Seattle & King County via King County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated July 30, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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