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Wah Kue
- ratingRated Good
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 1, 2025
- address13434 1St Ave S, Seattle 98168
Is Wah Kue clean?
Wah Kue is currently Rated Good from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 1, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Wah Kue?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 1, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
- 🧻grimy wiping cloths3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
When was Wah Kue last inspected?
Wah Kue has 4 inspections on record going back to January 14, 2022, averaging 20 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 1, 2025 | Rated Good | 20 pts |
| June 11, 2024 | Rated Good | 5 pts |
| April 28, 2023 | Rated Good | 35 pts |
| January 14, 2022 | Rated Good | 18 pts |
Wah Kue vs Burien
Burien runs 88% clean across 256 tracked restaurants — 225 clean, 30 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 256 spots Cooked tracks in Burien, 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 July 1, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.