Chinese takeout place in South Boston shut for kitchen grossness
UPDATE: Restaurant fixes all violations, allowed to re-open.
A Boston health inspector today shut Nanning Wok, 465 West Broadway, for violations that included letting cooked chicken fingers cool down too much and uncooked meat warm up too much and not doing anything about rodents and smokers.
Among the violations: "Evidence of smoking in establishment with strong odor of cigarettes" and "Evidence of rodent activity with droppings in dining area, basement and behind cookline equipment."
But unlike other restaurants, which can simply ask for a new inspection, Nanning Wok has to first request a formal hearing at ISD headquarters to show it's serious about cleaning up - because many of the violations have come up repeatedly in inspections going back to last year, even as it's maintained its "A" cleanliness rating, according to the latest inspector's report.
Among these repeat violations are using boxes that had contained raw chicken to hold cooked chicken fingers or wings and workers not knowing how to properly wash utensils. Another was the "caked on soils" and grease on various cooking tools and equipment that inspections noted going back to April of 2017.
On Jan. 31, an inspector noted an apparently novel way of dealing with this problem: "It appears establishment has spray painted over grease and soils on side of cookline equipment."
On June 21, an inspector found evidence somebody was sleeping in the basement, specifically, a "bed with blankets & pillow."
Following a hearing, Naning Wok can re-open once it passes a re-inspection.
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Maintained an A rating?
If this place is an A, I don’t care to know what a B or C grade means. But I’ve puzzled out why there are no D or F ratings: all the gross stuff is already accounted for.
What do the ratings even mean
What do the ratings even mean if rodent droppings, filthy equipment, and storing cooked food in raw chicken containers don't affect the grade? How good you are at kickbacks to city officials?
Way too Many A's
Agreed. Considering I've seen 1 B, and within 2 weeks it was back to an A.... I don't really understand the system and at a surface level it doesn't seem genuine. There is no way owners/managers aren't tipped off or pay the inspector off considering the current state of affairs.
Anyone else remember the
Anyone else remember the former King Fung Garden, a.k.a. Brezhnev's?
Despite all this...
I must say, their chicken wings are delicious.
My favorites
I must say is the Cathay Pathetic and Golden Bowel, both South of the City.
What's really sad...
I wonder how many establishments around the city are in a similar condition or worse.
Use to eat regularly
at a filthy Chinatown hole in the wall that you had to walk up stairs covered in foul, sticky grease that smelled like rotting fish. Delicious food. Never got sick.
how come southie has bottom
how come southie has bottom of the barrel delivery options. why not nicer/better fast casual options? doesn't make sense. would think there's huge demand. and healthy/quality
They must not have paid off the right person
This is the only restaurant that I order from. My Dad was a cook. I see rodents running in and out of the Perhaps, I should start documenting.