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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.
- ☠️toxic items stored near food3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- ⚠️3000 - Proper thawing methods used3000 - Proper thawing methods used
- ⚠️4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable4000 - Food and nonfood surfaces properly used and constructed; cleanable
- ⚠️0900 - Proper washing of fruits and vegetablescritical0900 - Proper washing of fruits and vegetables
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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 20, 2025 | Rated Okay | 28 pts |
| November 1, 2024 | Rated Okay | 33 pts |
| April 10, 2023 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| March 23, 2023 | Rated Okay | 65 pts |
| November 3, 2022 | Rated Okay | 0 pts |
| October 26, 2022 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
| October 13, 2022 | Rated Okay | 88 pts |
| December 15, 2021 | Rated Okay | 8 pts |
Looking For Chai Taiwanese Kitchen 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 October 20, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.