CHINA WOK
3501 North Ponce de Leon Boulevard
Saint Augustine, Florida, 32084
Las Palmas Luxury Condominiums
Saint Johns County County
Overall Food Safety Rating
★☆☆☆☆ (1.3/5)
Based on 4 health inspection reports
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Inspection on 3/6/2025
High Priority
2
Intermediate
2
Basic
6
Total
10
Disposition: Follow-up Inspection Required
Inspection Details:
- 13-01-4:Basic - Employee with soiled clothing. One employee cooking tempura chicken on cook line.
- 36-73-4:Basic - Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Under all equipment on cook line. Repeat Violation
- 08B-38-4:Basic - Food stored on floor. Cases of soda in dining area. Cases of ketchup behind make line. Buckets of soy sauce in prep area and in walk in cooler.
- 23-03-4:Basic - Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Exterior of trash can, racks in walk in cooler, shelves throughout kitchen, and exterior of bulk dry food storage bins throughout kitchen. Hood filters over cook line. Repeat Violation
- 25-32-4:Basic - Reuse of single-service or single-use articles. Boxes from raw chicken and from vegetables reused to line shelving and storage of bagged food in reach in freezer.
- 08B-12-5:Basic - Stored food not covered. Multiple containers of egg rolls in walk in cooler. Repeat Violation
- 08A-17-6:High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature when stored in a freezer - not all products commercially packaged. Raw chicken stored over raw pork mixture in standing reach in freezer behind make line, all items removed from original packaging. Also raw chicken stored over individual containers of sauce in standing reach in cooler near front counter. Also bags of raw shrimp stored together with bags of cooked pork in reach in freezer chest behind make line. Operator began to rearrange all items during inspection. **Corrective Action Taken** Repeat Violation Admin Complaint
- 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. Cut cabbage on make line identified on written procedures, but missing from chart on make line with 4 hour time frames, operator wrote cabbage on chart. Corrected On-Site
- 03D-15-4:Intermediate - Food being cooled by nonapproved method as evidenced by inadequate rate of cooling during time of inspection. tempura chicken (107F - Cooling, after 20 minutes 107F) in deep plastic containers in walk in cooler, items cooked 30 minutes prior to inspection and placed in walk in cooler during inspection.
- 22-02-4:Intermediate - Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. On racks in walk in cooler that are in direct contact with egg rolls. Interior of rice hot holding units in kitchen.
Food safety inspection conducted on 3/6/2025 revealed 10 total violations (2 high priority, 2 intermediate, 6 basic).
Inspection on 9/5/2024
High Priority
1
Intermediate
0
Basic
7
Total
8
Disposition: Follow-up Inspection Required
Inspection Details:
- 14-45-4:Basic - Cardboard used to line nonfood-contact shelves. In tables in middle of kitchen.
- 36-73-4:Basic - Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Under cook line and roasting cabinet in cook line. Under racks by back door of kitchen. Under reach in freezers behind cook line in kitchen.
- 08B-38-4:Basic - Food stored on floor. Wonton wrappers and buckets of soy sauce in walk in cooler. Repeat Violation
- 43-01-4:Basic - Living/sleeping quarters that open directly into a public food service establishment without complete partitioning and/or self-closing doors. Cot for sleeping in hallway with boxes of fried crunchies on top of cot and other boxes of single use items and individual sauce packed stored around cot.
- 23-03-4:Basic - Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Exterior of buckets and lower shelf in kitchen. All racks in walk in cooler.
- 08B-12-5:Basic - Stored food not covered. Multiple containers of cut vegetables in walk in cooler. Repeat Violation
- 21-07-4:Basic - Wiping cloth chlorine sanitizing solution not at proper minimum strength. Sanitation bucket under triple sink reading 0ppm, remade to 100ppm Corrected On-Site
- 08A-02-6:High Priority - Raw animal food stored over or with ready-to-eat food in a freezer - not all products commercially packaged. Bags or raw chicken mixed with bags of raw beef, mixed with krab sticks and over wontons in standing reach in freezer by front counter, all items removed from original packaging except for krab sticks. Bags of raw fish and raw shrimp stored over bags of cooked pork in reach in freezer chest behind make line, all items removed from original packaging. Also boxs of raw shrimp stored over bags of raw beef, removed from original packaging, in reach in freezer chest behind make line in kitchen. Also raw chicken over shrimp sauce in reach in cooler by front counter. Repeat Violation Admin Complaint
Food safety inspection conducted on 9/5/2024 revealed 8 total violations (1 high priority, 0 intermediate, 7 basic).
Inspection on 4/9/2024
High Priority
2
Intermediate
2
Basic
4
Total
8
Disposition: Follow-up Inspection Required
Inspection Details:
- 08B-49-4:Basic - Employee personal food not properly identified and segregated from food to be served to the public. Bags of employees personal food stored with bags of food for customers in large reach in freezer chest behind make line. Repeat Violation
- 08B-38-4:Basic - Food stored on floor. Cooking oil under cook line. Wonton wrappers and soy sauce in walk in cooler. Repeat Violation
- 31B-04-4:Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. At hand wash station in prep area. At hand wash station across from cook line. Repeat Violation
- 08B-12-5:Basic - Stored food not covered. Multiple containers of egg rolls and cut vegetables in walk in cooler.
- 12A-12-4:High Priority - Employee switched from working with raw food to ready-to-eat food and/or clean equipment/utensils without washing hands. Two employees cutting and touching raw chicken with bare in prep area then began to touch clean utensils and single service containers without washing hands.
- 08A-02-6:High Priority - Raw animal food stored over or with ready-to-eat food in a freezer - not all products commercially packaged. Raw pork stored over cooked pork in standing reach in freezer in prep area, all items removed from original packaging. Bags of raw pork and raw beef stored mixed in with bags of cooked pork in large reach in freezer chest behind make line. Also raw beef stored over individual containers of sauces in reach in cooler near front counter. Repeat Violation Admin Complaint
- 22-02-4:Intermediate - Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Interior of reach in freezer chests in back of kitchen.
- 03F-10-5:Intermediate - No written procedures available for use of time as a public health control to hold time/temperature control for safety food. Cut cabbage and fried rice on cook line, manager wrote in items on written procedures.
Food safety inspection conducted on 4/9/2024 revealed 8 total violations (2 high priority, 2 intermediate, 4 basic).
Inspection on 9/14/2023
High Priority
1
Intermediate
3
Basic
11
Total
15
Disposition: Met Inspection Standards
Inspection Details:
- 14-01-5:Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Can used as scoop in bulk rice container. Repeat Violation
- 14-45-4:Basic - Cardboard used to line nonfood-contact shelves. Cardboard used to line top shelf of the main cook line used to store single service carry out containers. Repeat Violation
- 08B-49-4:Basic - Employee personal food not properly identified and segregated from food to be served to the public. In the smaller reach in chest freezer, package of employee personal fish stored with food to be served to customers.
- 40-06-5:Basic - Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area, food, clean equipment and utensils, or single-service items. Employees speaker and keys stored on shelf over prep station of cut broccoli. Operator relocated the personal items. Corrected On-Site
- 24-08-4:Basic - Equipment and utensils not properly air-dried - wet nesting. On the storage shelf over the three compartment sink, clean containers stacked while wet. Repeat Violation
- 08B-38-4:Basic - Food stored on floor. Fryer oil stored on the floor of the main cook line. Repeat Violation
- 10-17-4:Basic - In-use knife/knives stored in cracks between pieces of equipment. Knife stored between flip top reach in cooler and prep table. Operator relocated the knife. Corrected On-Site Repeat Violation
- 31B-04-4:Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. No employee hand wash signage at the hand wash sink closest to the three compartment sink.
- 23-03-4:Basic - Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Walk in cooler and reach in chest freezer door gaskets have mold like substance build up. Cook line hood filters have grease build up.
- 25-32-4:Basic - Reuse of single-service or single-use articles. Reuse of single service cans to store clean utensils and as a scoop for dry rice.
- 21-12-4:Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. Multiple wet wiping cloths stored on prep surfaces on the main cook line. Sanitizer solution bucket stored on the floor by the three compartment sink. Operator placed second bucket under the sanitizer. **Corrective Action Taken**
- 08A-17-6:High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature when stored in a freezer - not all products commercially packaged. In the standup reach in freezer in the prep area, raw beef and raw chicken over raw shrimp all not commercially packaged.
- 31A-09-4:Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times. Hand wash sink by the three compartment sink blocked by large pot and containers. Operator made the sink accessible. Corrected On-Site Repeat Violation
- 31B-02-4:Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. No paper towels available at the hand wash sink closest to the three compartment sink. Operator provided paper towels. Corrected On-Site Repeat Violation
- 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. In the walk in cooler, cooked chicken from the previous day with no product date marking. Repeat Violation
Food safety inspection conducted on 9/14/2023 revealed 15 total violations (1 high priority, 3 intermediate, 11 basic).