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Lao Ma Tou Hotpot
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score28 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 31, 2025
- address288 106Th Ave Ne, #200, Bellevue 98004
Is Lao Ma Tou Hotpot clean?
Lao Ma Tou Hotpot is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on March 31, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Lao Ma Tou Hotpot?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 31, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3800 - Utensils, equipment, linens properly stored, used, handled3800 - Utensils, equipment, linens properly stored, used, handled
- 🚰handwashing sink issuescritical0500 - Proper barriers used to prevent bare hand contact with ready-to-eat foods
When was Lao Ma Tou Hotpot last inspected?
Lao Ma Tou Hotpot has 3 inspections on record going back to May 9, 2023, averaging 25 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | Rated Okay | 28 pts |
| August 27, 2024 | Rated Okay | 19 pts |
| May 9, 2023 | Rated Okay | 28 pts |
Lao Ma Tou Hotpot vs Bellevue
Bellevue runs 85% clean across 651 tracked restaurants — 555 clean, 92 mid, 4 cooked.
Against the 651 spots Cooked tracks in Bellevue, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 March 31, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.