HOUSTON – Rodent droppings, bugs and discolored slime headline this week's restaurant report card.
Golden Dim Sum is a Chinese restaurant in the 10000 block of Bellaire Boulevard that aims to delight customers with their specially prepared Dim Sum dishes. But this week, health inspectors dinged the restaurant after they found rodent droppings in the dry storage area.
Some people like bugs, but probably not in a professional kitchen. Health inspectors found live roaches on the wall at the hand sink near the deep fryer at the Deli Rio Habanero at 832 Sharpstown Mall.
There were more roach sightings at the Meedo Café at 2727 Fondren. The health department found the roaches in the kitchen. The owner of the restaurant, Yasser Almulshe, told Channel 2 that as soon as health inspectors talked to him, he ordered a professional pest control company to come in and eliminate the problem.
"I tell them they have to come in and fix it right now," Almulshe said. "Outside or inside, I don’t want to see any roaches."
Almulshe took Channel 2 cameras on a tour of the entire kitchen and storage areas. The restaurant appeared to be very clean.
At the Alonti Café at 600 Travis, brown and yellow slime popped up in the ice machine. When inspectors found it, they quarantined the machine.
At Hartz Chicken Express in the 14000 block of Main Street, inspectors found dead roaches lying in the storage area.
Channel 2 handed out one A+ rating this week: The Boil House at 606 E. 11th Street in the Heights.