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Hot Pho
- ratingRated Needs To Improve
- inspection score0 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 26, 2026
- address21222 84Th Ave S, Kent 98032
Is Hot Pho clean?
Hot Pho is currently Rated Needs To Improve from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 26, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Hot Pho?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 26, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Hot Pho last inspected?
Hot Pho has 13 inspections on record going back to April 7, 2021, averaging 16 points. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2026 | Rated Needs To Improve | 0 pts |
| May 20, 2026 | closed by the city | 40 pts |
| December 1, 2025 | Rated Needs To Improve | 0 pts |
| May 5, 2025 | Rated Needs To Improve | 40 pts |
| February 11, 2025 | Rated Needs To Improve | 17 pts |
| August 2, 2024 | Rated Needs To Improve | 10 pts |
| February 14, 2024 | Rated Needs To Improve | 40 pts |
| October 10, 2023 | Rated Needs To Improve | 25 pts |
| May 8, 2023 | Rated Needs To Improve | 0 pts |
| November 2, 2022 | Rated Needs To Improve | 7 pts |
| April 1, 2022 | Rated Needs To Improve | 5 pts |
| August 31, 2021 | Rated Needs To Improve | 5 pts |
Hot Pho vs Kent
Kent runs 78% clean across 360 tracked restaurants — 281 clean, 74 mid, 5 cooked.
Against the 360 spots Cooked tracks in Kent, this one comes out cleaner than 46% 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 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.