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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.
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical1100 - Proper disposition of returned, unsafe, or contaminated food; proper date marking procedures for food at high risk for Listeria
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - 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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2026 | Rated Good | 35 pts |
| May 1, 2025 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| October 29, 2024 | Rated Good | 15 pts |
| June 18, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
Khalij Market vs Des Moines
Des Moines runs 90% clean across 164 tracked restaurants — 148 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 164 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.
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.