Looking For Chai Taiwanese Kitchen

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score28 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 20, 2025 →
• address12121 Ne Northup Way, 205, Bellevue 98005

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 20, 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 Looking For Chai Taiwanese Kitchen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 20, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used
• ⚠️0900 - Proper washing of fruits and vegetablescritical

When was Looking For Chai Taiwanese Kitchen last inspected?

Looking For Chai Taiwanese Kitchen has 8 inspections on record going back to December 15, 2021, averaging 32 points.

Looking For Chai Taiwanese Kitchen vs Bellevue

Bellevue runs 85% clean across 652 tracked restaurants — 556 clean, 92 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 652 spots Cooked tracks in Bellevue, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 20, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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