Wicked Chopstix

• ratingRated Needs To Improve
• inspection score116 pts
• critical violations6
• last inspectedJuly 15, 2026
• address6021 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle 98118

Is Wicked Chopstix clean?

Wicked Chopstix is currently Rated Needs To Improve from Public Health — Seattle & King County, from an inspection on July 15, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 6 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Wicked Chopstix?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 15, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧻grimy wiping cloths
  3400 - Wiping cloths properly used, stored; sanitizer concentration
• ⚠️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
• 🍴utensils stored sketchy
  4200 - Food-contact surfaces maintained, cleaned, sanitized
• ♻️single-use stuff being reused
  4300 - Nonfood-contact surfaces maintained and clean
• ☠️toxic items stored near food
  3300 - Potential food contamination prevented during delivery, preparation, storage, display
• ⚠️4700 - Garbage, refuse properly disposed; facilities maintained
  4700 - Garbage, refuse properly disposed; facilities maintained
• ⚠️3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
  3100 - Food properly labeled; proper date marking
• ⚠️3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
  3200 - Insects, rodents, animals not present; entrance controlled
• 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcritical
  1900 - No room temperature storage; proper use of time as a control, procedures available
• 🥩raw meat handled sketchycritical
  1400 - Raw meats below and away from ready-to-eat food; species separated
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  2110 - Proper cold holding temperatures; greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit (F) (7 degrees Celsius (C))
• 🍗food not cooked to safe tempscritical
  1600 - Proper cooling procedure
• ❓food from an unapproved sourcecritical
  0600 - Adequate handwashing facilities
• ⚠️0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exemptcritical
  0100 - PIC present, demonstrates knowledge and performs duties to maintain AMC; certified manager on staff unless exempt

When was Wicked Chopstix last inspected?

Wicked Chopstix has 14 inspections on record going back to July 21, 2021, averaging 37 points. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Wicked Chopstix vs Rainier Valley

Rainier Valley runs 78% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 50 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in Rainier Valley, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.