Ho Ho Chinese Not So Merry; 6 Restaurants in Mizner Park

ByWarren Redlich

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It may be easier to get a table on Christmas at Ho Ho Chinese in Delray Beach. The restaurant was hit Tuesday with 28 violations on their inspection, including 4 marked high priority:

  • Employee failed to wash hands beforechanging gloves and/or putting on gloves to work with food. CHEF AT SUSHI STATION REMOVED GLOVES AND WASHED HANDS **Corrective Action Taken**
  • Pesticide/insecticide labeled for household use only present in establishment.CAN OF RAID ON SHELVING UNIT
  • Potentially hazardous (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. SUSHI RICE 75° STOP SALE **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
  • Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in walk-in cooler.RAW CHICKEN STORED OVER STRING BEANS WASHED AND BROCCOLI C **Repeat Violation**

Ho Ho had poor inspections in May as well, closed two days in a row for roaches.
Six restaurants in Mizner Park also had less than wonderful inspections.

  • Kapow Noodle Bar had the biggest numbers of the group with 19 total violations (6 high priority).
  • Villagio was right behind with 18 violations (3 high priority). Their inspection in May was worse with 25 violations and a brief closure for roaches.
  • Tanzy had 12 violations with 2 high priority.
  • The iPic Theater had 11 violations with 2 high priority.
  • Yard House also had 11 violations (5 high priority).
  • Trulucks had 9 violations (4 high priority).

Muddy Waters in Deerfield may have had the worst inspection of the week, with 15 violations including 9 marked high priority. The ones that bothered us the most were:

Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, or food storage area.

and

Stop Sale issued on potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food due to temperature abuse. Ray [Raw] oysters. Dressings at wait station.

Muddy Waters has had bad inspections before, in May of this year and November last year where they had 30 violations and a familiar “live flies in the kitchen.” They apparently like doing the backstroke in the muddy waters.
On the good news side of things, the Boca Raton Resort had several perfect inspections including their Japanese restaurant Morimoto. The new Los Tacos, on the east side of Federal Highway north of Glades, had a perfect licensing inspection.
In West Boca, Original Pancake House had two inspections on the same day, both times recording a single minor paperwork violation. The paperwork raid extended to the Pei Wei at 441 and Glades and our friends at the Armadillo Cafe, each with the same one minor paperwork violation.
As usual, our spreadsheet for the week is below. West Boca restaurants are in bold.
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