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Foo Lam Chinese Restaurant
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 13, 2026
- address7101 M L King Jr Way S, 111, Seattle 98118
Is Foo Lam Chinese Restaurant clean?
Foo Lam Chinese Restaurant is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 13, 2026. 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 Foo Lam Chinese Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 13, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Foo Lam Chinese Restaurant last inspected?
Foo Lam Chinese Restaurant has 10 inspections on record going back to June 22, 2021, averaging 14 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 13, 2026 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| November 17, 2025 | Rated Good | 10 pts |
| April 30, 2025 | Rated Good | 28 pts |
| December 31, 2024 | Rated Good | 3 pts |
| August 2, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| August 23, 2023 | Rated Good | 0 pts |
| March 27, 2023 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
| April 25, 2022 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| January 13, 2022 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| June 22, 2021 | Rated Good | 33 pts |
Foo Lam Chinese Restaurant 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 19% 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 July 13, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.