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Little Garden Chinese Restaurant
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score95 pts
- critical violations5
- last inspectedNovember 5, 2025
- address14725 Ne 20Th St, Bellevue 98007
Is Little Garden Chinese Restaurant clean?
Little Garden Chinese Restaurant is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on November 5, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 5 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Little Garden Chinese Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchy4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted4800 - Physical facilities properly installed, maintained, cleaned; unnecessary persons excluded from establishment
- ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ♻️single-use stuff being reused4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
- ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt
- 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available
- ⚠️2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedurescritical2600 - Compliance with valid permit; operating and risk control plans, and required written procedures
- ⚠️1300 - Food contact surfaces cleaned and sanitized; no cross contaminationcritical1300 - Food contact surfaces cleaned and sanitized; no cross contamination
- ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
When was Little Garden Chinese Restaurant last inspected?
Little Garden Chinese Restaurant has 5 inspections on record going back to February 23, 2021, averaging 39 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 5, 2025 | Rated Okay | 95 pts |
| September 3, 2024 | Rated Okay | 28 pts |
| August 21, 2023 | Rated Okay | 33 pts |
| September 23, 2022 | Rated Okay | 40 pts |
| February 23, 2021 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
Little Garden Chinese Restaurant 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 0% 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 November 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.