Inspection Report

Florida DBPR Inspection Report

CHINA LEE BUFFET

3933 E SILVER SPRINGS BLVD · OCALA · Marion County · FL 34470

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Inspection Summary

Inspection dateNovember 17, 2025
Inspection typeComplaint Full
Inspection classFood
DBPR dispositionCall Back – Admin. complaint recommended
Resultfollow_up_required
Inspection number3678669
Visit number2
Inspection Visit ID13568282
DBPR license5203191

Violation Summary

Counts reported for this inspection visit.

Full inspector observations available
2 High Priority0 Intermediate0 Basic0 Critical0 Non-Critical2 Total

All DBPR Inspector Observations

2 full violation description(s) documented by the inspector during this visit.

High Priority 2

#1High Priority12A-16-4

High Priority – – From initial inspection : High Priority – Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Male employee working cleaning surfaces started wearing gloves and portioning food with hands and no hand washed occurred. **Warning** – From follow-up inspection 2025-11-17: Male employee at the sushi bar area arrived to prep area, rinse hands, no soap, no scrubbing and immediately after started wearing gloves and portioned krab and rice, inspector instructed to wash hand properly. **Admin Complaint** **Corrective Action Taken**

Corrective Action TakenWarningAdmin Complaint
#2High Priority03A-02-5

High Priority – – From initial inspection : High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. At the sushi bar area, tuna 44F, manager voluntarily discarded, also guacamole with cut tomatoes 50F, manager will add to time as a public health control and discarded at 3:30. At the cook line, noodles stored above filling line 46F per employee noodles moved to cooler 30 minutes prior, manager moved back to walk-in cooler. At the kitchen entrance, cooler with no door installed due to cleaning, raw fish 46F and 50F, manager moved to freezer, all other food cold. **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint** – From follow-up inspection 2025-11-17: At the kitchen entrance raw fish 48F, per manager item pulled out of walk-in cooler approximately 2hrs ago, manager moved to freezer. At the sushi bar area, krab 61F, per employee item pulled out of fridge 1-2hrs ago, manager moved to freezer. **Admin Complaint** **Corrective Action Taken**

Corrective Action TakenRepeat ViolationAdmin Complaint

Inspector observations synchronized from DBPR on August 18, 2026 7:36 AM.

Violation category totals
Category 4 · Facilities maintain proper food temperature
1 observation(s)
Category 13 · Clothing, hair restraints, jewelry and fingernails
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.