4 restaurants on this major Miami-Dade street failed inspection in the last 7 months
One major North Miami-Dade street is less Restaurant Row than Restaurant Death Row as four restaurants in a 1.7-mile stretch have failed inspection since December. The latest inclusion into this filthy club joined Tuesday.
That’s when state inspectors closed King Palace Chinese BBQ, 330 NE 167th St., putting that place on a list that includes Le Genie Restaurant, 176 NE 167th St.; after Northeast 167th Street swerves into being Northeast 163rd Street in North Miami Beach, Sichuan Fish, 1242 NE 163rd St.; and Cafe Maza, 1430 NE 163rd St.
If Sichuan Fish seems unfamiliar, it’s the latest incarnation of repeated inspection failure and rodent house, CY Chinese Restaurant. CY’s literal stinker of an inspection in December included foul odors, rodents, even a cat who apparently didn’t feel catching mice was part of the job.
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CY kept getting busted with rodent poop around the restaurant before it closed this spring and recently reopened as Sichuan. State records say CY was owned by Y and C Restaurant, President Xianguang Yang. Sichuan’s president is Hanping Yang.
Almost as bad as any given CY inspection over the last few years was March’s inspection at Le Genie, which had almost 100 rodent droppings including some on shelves where plates were stored.
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King Palace, fortunately for it and its customers, weren’t as bad as either of those.
King Palace Chinese BBQ’s problems
King Palace Chinese BBQ, 330 NE 167th St.: Routine inspection, 26 total violations, five High Priority violations.
Tuesday, the inspector counted over 25 flies by the dishwasher, over 10 by the duck hot holding unit, one live fly on a foam single service item that got tossed and two on cooked duck and cooked pork. That’s a Stop Sale on the cooked duck and a Stop Sale on the cooked pork.
“Observed salt and sugar food containers soiled.”
Apparently, nobody knew where the mop or Swiffer was because the entire kitchen floor was “soiled with food debris.”
Also, “soiled” were the gaskets of the reach-in cooler, walk-in cooler and walk-in freezer as well as the inside of the cookline reach-in cooler.
Also in the kitchen, “Cardboard used on the floor as an anti-slip measure is not replaced every day or when heavily soiled, whichever comes first.”
Cases of noodles and pork were stored on the walk-in cooler floor.
“No probe thermometer provided to measure the temperature of food products.”
Wednesday’s re-inspection got King Palace back open, but a follow-up inspection remains necessary.
