Sum Yee Kae

• ratingRated Okay
• inspection score23 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedApril 8, 2026
• address14509 Ne 20Th St, Bellevue 98007

Is Sum Yee Kae clean?

Sum Yee Kae is currently Rated Okay from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on April 8, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Sum Yee Kae?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• ⚠️4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
  4400 - Plumbing properly sized, installed, and maintained; proper backflow devices, indirect drains, no cross-connections
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  4100 - Warewashing facilities properly installed, maintained, used; sanitizer concentration; test strips available and used
• ⚠️1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))critical
  1720 - Proper hot holding temperatures; between 130 to 134 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (54 to 56 degrees Celsius (C))
• ⚠️1200 - Proper shellstock ID; wild mushroom ID; parasite destruction procedures for fishcritical
  1200 - Proper shellstock ID; wild mushroom ID; parasite destruction procedures for fish

When was Sum Yee Kae last inspected?

Sum Yee Kae has 6 inspections on record going back to July 17, 2024, averaging 28 points.

Sum Yee Kae 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 11% 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 April 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.