DORAL, FL. State inspectors walked into Qianlong at 8726 NW 26th Street on April 28 and found food sourced from unapproved or unknown suppliers, a violation that means inspectors cannot trace where the ingredients came from or whether they passed any federal safety screening. The restaurant collected six high-severity violations that day. It was not closed.
What Inspectors Found
The unapproved food source citation is one of the most serious a restaurant can receive. When ingredients arrive outside the regulated supply chain, there is no USDA or FDA inspection record attached to them, and no way to trace the food back to its origin if a customer becomes ill.
Alongside that finding, inspectors documented a failure to follow parasite destruction procedures. For a Chinese restaurant serving fish or pork dishes, that citation carries direct consequences: without proper freezing or cooking protocols, parasites including Anisakis in fish and Trichinella in pork can survive and infect customers.
The remaining four high-severity violations compounded the picture. Food contact surfaces were not properly cleaned or sanitized, meaning cutting boards, prep surfaces, or utensils used across multiple ingredients were potential vectors for bacterial transfer. Employees were observed using improper handwashing technique, which inspectors note leaves pathogens on hands even when a wash is attempted. The restaurant had no consumer advisory posted for raw or undercooked menu items. And staff demonstrated no allergen awareness, a failure that affects the 32 million Americans living with food allergies.
What These Violations Mean
The food-from-unapproved-sources violation is not a paperwork problem. It means that if a customer falls ill after eating at Qianlong, health officials would have no supply chain record to follow. Listeria and Salmonella are among the pathogens that federal inspection programs are specifically designed to catch before ingredients reach a kitchen. When that chain is bypassed, those safeguards disappear entirely.
The parasite destruction failure sits in the same tier of risk. Florida sushi and Asian cuisine restaurants are routinely inspected for compliance with freezing protocols because certain fish and pork parasites are not killed by cooking alone at typical serving temperatures. A documented failure to follow those procedures means the protocol either was not in place or was not being applied on the day inspectors arrived.
The allergen finding is its own category of danger. When no staff member can demonstrate allergen awareness, a customer with a severe allergy to shellfish, peanuts, or soy cannot rely on anything the server tells them. That gap is not theoretical: food allergy reactions send roughly 30,000 people to emergency rooms in the United States each year.
Improperly sanitized food contact surfaces tie the other violations together. If a cutting board carries bacteria from one ingredient to the next, and handwashing technique is also compromised, the compounding effect multiplies the risk of contamination reaching a finished plate.
The Longer Record
April's inspection was not an outlier. State records show Qianlong has been inspected 20 times and has accumulated 211 total violations across those visits, with zero emergency closures on record.
The eight most recent inspections with documented violations tell a consistent story. In June 2024, inspectors cited eight high-severity violations in a single visit, the highest single-visit count in the recent record. That same year, November brought six high-severity violations and February brought five. The pattern did not improve in 2025: a March visit produced seven high-severity violations, and a September visit produced three.
The April 2026 inspection, with six high-severity violations, fits squarely inside that range. This is not a restaurant encountering a bad week. The inspection record shows high-severity violations present at every documented visit going back to at least 2021.
What the record does not show is a single emergency closure across 20 inspections and 211 violations. Qianlong has never been ordered shut by state regulators, despite a string of serious citations that includes food sourcing failures, parasite protocol failures, and now a complete absence of allergen awareness training.
Still Open
After inspectors documented six high-severity violations on April 28, including food from an unapproved source and a failure to follow parasite destruction procedures, Qianlong remained open for business.
The state did not post an emergency closure order. No orange sticker went on the door. Customers who walked in that evening had no way of knowing what the inspection had found.
The 211-violation cumulative record now includes this inspection. The restaurant has never been closed.