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Looking For Chai Taiwanese Kitchen

health inspection rating · Bellevue

mid

A raised eyebrow.

The current published rating reads mid. Read the dated record before deciding.

  • ratingRated Okay
  • inspection score18 pts
  • critical violations1
  • last inspectedOctober 19, 2026 →
  • address12121 Ne Northup Way, 205, Bellevue 98005
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Is Looking For Chai Taiwanese Kitchen clean?

Looking For Chai Taiwanese Kitchen is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on October 19, 2026. 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 Looking For Chai Taiwanese Kitchen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

  • ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used
  • ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
  • ⚠️0900 - Proper washing of fruits and vegetablescritical

When was Looking For Chai Taiwanese Kitchen last inspected?

Looking For Chai Taiwanese Kitchen has 9 inspections on record going back to December 15, 2021, averaging 30 points.

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October 19, 2026 Okay Routine Inspection/Field Review · 18 pts · 3 failed findings

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October 20, 2025 Okay Routine Inspection/Field Review · 28 pts · 5 failed findings

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November 1, 2024 Okay Routine Inspection/Field Review · 33 pts · 3 failed findings

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April 10, 2023 Okay Return Inspection · 0 pts · 0 failed findings

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March 23, 2023 Okay Routine Inspection/Field Review · 65 pts · 8 failed findings

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November 3, 2022 Okay Return Inspection · 0 pts · 0 failed findings

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October 26, 2022 Okay Return Inspection · 30 pts · 2 failed findings

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October 13, 2022 Okay Routine Inspection/Field Review · 88 pts · 10 failed findings

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December 15, 2021 Okay Routine Inspection/Field Review · 8 pts · 2 failed findings

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Looking For Chai Taiwanese Kitchen vs Bellevue

Bellevue runs 85% clean across 662 tracked restaurants — 565 clean, 93 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 662 spots Cooked tracks in Bellevue, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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.

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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 October 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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