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Pho Tai White Center
- ratingRated Okay
- inspection score15 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 27, 2025
- address1521 Sw 98Th St, A, Seattle 98106
Is Pho Tai White Center clean?
Pho Tai White Center is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on August 27, 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 Pho Tai White Center?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 27, 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
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Pho Tai White Center last inspected?
Pho Tai White Center has 5 inspections on record going back to December 27, 2022, averaging 29 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 27, 2025 | Rated Okay | 15 pts |
| October 22, 2024 | Rated Okay | 30 pts |
| February 13, 2024 | Rated Okay | 5 pts |
| July 10, 2023 | Rated Okay | 53 pts |
| December 27, 2022 | Rated Okay | 40 pts |
Pho Tai White Center vs White Center
White Center runs 84% clean across 233 tracked restaurants — 155 clean, 28 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 233 spots Cooked tracks in White Center, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 August 27, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.