Khalij Market

• ratingRated Good
• inspection score35 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMay 16, 2026 →
• address23227 Pacific Hwy S, Kent 98032

Is Khalij Market clean?

Khalij Market is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on May 16, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Khalij Market?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• 🦪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
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))

When was Khalij Market last inspected?

Khalij Market has 4 inspections on record going back to June 18, 2024, averaging 18 points.

Khalij Market vs Des Moines

Des Moines runs 90% clean across 165 tracked restaurants — 149 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 165 spots Cooked tracks in Des Moines, 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.

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 May 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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