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Happy Lemon Bubble Tea
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMay 20, 2026
- address9025 25Th Ave Sw, Seattle 98106
Is Happy Lemon Bubble Tea clean?
Happy Lemon Bubble Tea is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 20, 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 Happy Lemon Bubble Tea?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ♻️single-use stuff being reused4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- 🧊cold food not cold enoughcritical2120 - Proper cold holding temperatures; between 42 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (6 to 7 degrees Celsius (C))
- ⚠️1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))critical1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Happy Lemon Bubble Tea last inspected?
Happy Lemon Bubble Tea has 7 inspections on record going back to March 22, 2023, averaging 17 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 20, 2026 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| November 24, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| November 7, 2025 | Rated Okay | 40 pts |
| July 15, 2025 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| July 7, 2025 | Rated Okay | 55 pts |
| April 5, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| March 22, 2023 | Rated Okay | 10 pts |
Happy Lemon Bubble Tea vs White Center
White Center runs 84% clean across 233 tracked restaurants — 196 clean, 34 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 233 spots Cooked tracks in White Center, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 May 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.