LING EXPRESS
803 East Bloomingdale Avenue
Brandon, Florida, 33511
Hillsborough County County
Overall Food Safety Rating
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5)
Based on 3 health inspection reports
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Inspection on 3/18/2025
High Priority
0
Intermediate
0
Basic
2
Total
2
Disposition: Met Inspection Standards
Inspection Details:
- 08B-38-4:Basic - - From initial inspection : Basic - Food stored on floor. Observed cases of soda stored on the ground in lobby **Repeat Violation** **Warning** - From follow-up inspection 2025-03-18: **Time Extended**
- 08B-63-4:Basic - - From initial inspection : Basic - Unpackaged food in an unprotected holding unit in a customer/nonsecure area. Observed reach on freezer in lobby. Customers would have access to unit heading to and from restroom. **Warning** - From follow-up inspection 2025-03-18: **Time Extended**
Food safety inspection conducted on 3/18/2025 revealed 2 total violations (0 high priority, 0 intermediate, 2 basic).
Inspection on 3/17/2025
High Priority
5
Intermediate
2
Basic
3
Total
10
Disposition: Follow-up Inspection Required
Inspection Details:
- 14-01-5:Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Observed soiled to go containers in cooked rice **Warning**
- 08B-38-4:Basic - Food stored on floor. Observed cases of soda stored on the ground in lobby **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
- 08B-63-4:Basic - Unpackaged food in an unprotected holding unit in a customer/nonsecure area. Observed reach on freezer in lobby. Customers would have access to unit heading to and from restroom. **Warning**
- 12A-16-4:High Priority - Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed employees come into kitchen and began making orders without washing hands.
- 09-01-4:High Priority - Employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands - food was not being heated as a sole ingredient to 145 degrees F or immediately added to other ingredients to be cooked/heated to the minimum required temperature to allow bare hand contact. Establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. Grab fully cooked broccoli with bare hands and place it in to go box . **Warning**
- 08A-05-6:High Priority - Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Observed raw shrimp and raw chicken stored over cooked chicken wings in walk in cooler **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
- 03A-02-5:High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. On cart on cook line: krab Rangoon (67F - Cold Holding); cooked battered chicken pieces (60F - Cold Holding). Cook line: cut cabbage (60F - Cold Holding) Employee put in cooler **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
- 03B-01-6:High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Cook line: cooked broccoli (70F - Hot Holding) cooked breaded chicken pieces (115F - Hot Holding); cooked fried rice (119F - Hot Holding) All items sitting with no temperature control: **Warning**
- 11-26-1:Intermediate - No proof provided that food employees are informed of their responsibility to report to the person in charge information about their health and activities related to foodborne illnesses. Operator had 1 new hire but name on form was not Legible. **Warning**
- 53B-10-4:Intermediate - Records/documents for required employee training do not contain all of the required information. Missing date of birth on safe staff cards **Warning**
Food safety inspection conducted on 3/17/2025 revealed 10 total violations (5 high priority, 2 intermediate, 3 basic).
Inspection on 1/21/2025
High Priority
2
Intermediate
3
Basic
9
Total
14
Disposition: Met Inspection Standards
Inspection Details:
- 14-01-5:Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Bowl used as scoop in bulk sugar
- 40-06-5:Basic - Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area, food, clean equipment and utensils, or single-service items. Cell phone on prep table. Operator removed. **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
- 14-11-5:Basic - Equipment in poor repair. Gaskets torn on walk in cooler door **Repeat Violation**
- 08B-38-4:Basic - Food stored on floor. Numerous food items stored on floor in the walk-in freezer. Bucked of onions on floor in prep area
- 10-17-4:Basic - In-use knife/knives stored in cracks between pieces of equipment. Operator removed **Corrected On-Site**
- 23-03-4:Basic - Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Dust buildup on fan guard in walk in cooler
- 29-08-4:Basic - Plumbing system in disrepair. Hand sink in prep area leaking water from drain onto floor.
- 08B-54-4:Basic - Uncovered food stored near sink exposed to splash. Observed uncovered hot holding food next to hand sink with no splash guard.
- 08B-17-4:Basic - Unwashed fruits/vegetables stored with ready-to-eat food.unwashed broccoli stored over ready to eat cut cabbage
- 08A-05-6:High Priority - Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Observed raw chicken stored over ready to eat carrots in walk in cooler. Observed raw beef stored over fresh garlic in walk in cooler.
- 03F-02-5:High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking and the time removed from temperature control cannot be determined. Cooked chicken stored on prep table at 62F. Operator stated the chicken was removed from temperature control at, 3:00pm, current time 4:15pm. Operator placed chicken in cooler. **Corrective Action Taken**
- 31A-09-4:Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times. Scouring pad stored in hand sink. Operator removed **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
- 31B-02-4:Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. At hand sink in prep area. Operator replaced **Corrected On-Site**
- 02C-02-5:Intermediate - Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Numerous items in walk in cooler not date marked. **Repeat Violation**
Food safety inspection conducted on 1/21/2025 revealed 14 total violations (2 high priority, 3 intermediate, 9 basic).