Hong Kong Bistro

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score38 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedJuly 22, 2026 →
• address507 Maynard Ave S, 511C, Seattle 98104

Is Hong Kong Bistro clean?

Hong Kong Bistro is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 22, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Hong Kong Bistro?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️1200 - Proper shellstock ID; wild mushroom ID; parasite destruction procedures for fishcritical
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• 📄consumer advisory missingcritical
  2500 - Toxic substances properly identified, stored, used
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities

When was Hong Kong Bistro last inspected?

Hong Kong Bistro has 14 inspections on record going back to May 18, 2022, averaging 33 points. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Hong Kong Bistro vs Downtown

Downtown runs 91% clean across 1,737 tracked restaurants — 1,581 clean, 148 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 1,737 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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.

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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 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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