KAM WAH CHINESE FOOD
7163 LAKE WORTH RD · LAKE WORTH · Palm Beach County · FL 33467
Inspection Summary
Violation Summary
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All DBPR Inspector Observations
8 full violation description(s) documented by the inspector during this visit.
High Priority 4
12A-16-4High Priority – Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Employee entered kitchen from outside and without washing hands employee began to prepare customers order, discussed with operator, employee washed hands. **Warning**
12A-25-4High Priority – Employee touched face/hair and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Employee wiped face and without washing hands handled tray of cooked pasta, discussed with operator, employee washed hands. **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
08A-17-6High 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 reach in freezer metal tray of portioned raw chicken stored above non commercially packaged bags of raw pork, discussed with operator who corrected storage of products. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
03F-02-5High 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. See stop sale. In kitchen raw shell eggs held on time not time marked, per operator eggs put out at opening approximately 1 hour ago, operator time marked product. **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
Intermediate 1
03D-15-4Intermediate – Food being cooled by nonapproved method as evidenced by inadequate rate of cooling during time of inspection. In kitchen cooked chicken (89F – Cooling) at 11:45 since 11:15 to 88F at 12:10; cooked noodles (85F – Cooling) at 11:45 since 11:15 to 84F at 12:10; cooked teriyaki chicken (124F – Cooling) at 11:50 since 11:00 to 106F at 12:15, at this current rate of cooling products will not reach reach 70F within 2 hours, discussed with operator who moved products to walk in cooler to chill. **Corrective Action Taken** **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
Basic 3
14-01-5Basic – Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. In rice warmer bowl with no handled used to scoop rice, discussed with operator who removed. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
12B-13-4Basic – Opened employee beverage container in a cold holding unit with food to be served to customers. In reach in cooler open can of Pepsi belonging to cook stored above customer foods, discussed with operator who removed Pepsi. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
22-16-4Basic – Reach-in cooler interior/shelves have accumulation of soil residues. Interior of reach in flip top cooler at cook like heavily soiled with accumulation of food and soil debris, discussed with operator to clean and sanitize. **Warning**
Inspector observations synchronized from DBPR on August 19, 2026 7:35 AM.
Violation category totals
2 observation(s)
1 observation(s)
3 observation(s)
1 observation(s)
1 observation(s)
Inspection records and inspector observations reflect conditions documented by DBPR at the time of the inspection and may not reflect current conditions.