Wabi Sabi Japanese Home-Style Restaurant
103 - 23160 96th Ave, Langley · Restaurant
Inspection summary
Wabi Sabi Japanese Home-Style Restaurant has been inspected 5 times by Fraser Health Authority since January 8, 2025. The most recent inspection, on May 27, 2026, found no infractions.
3 of 5 inspections on record found no infractions at all. In the past 12 months there were 3 inspections with 2 infractions recorded. The higher-risk findings here relate to: Cleaning and sanitizing and Protecting food from contamination.
The number of infractions per inspection has stayed roughly the same over time.
What these findings mean
Health authorities word their violations differently, so we group them by what they mean for food safety. Higher-risk findings are the ones inspectors treat as critical, because they can directly make someone sick.
Cleaning and sanitizingHigher risk
Anything that touches food, such as cutting boards, dishes and utensils, must be washed, rinsed and sanitized. Inspectors check dishwasher temperatures, sanitizer strength and how wiping cloths are stored. Poor sanitizing lets bacteria survive from one use to the next.
Recorded once on May 19, 2026. For example:
302 - Equipment/utensils/food contact surfaces not properly washed and sanitized [s. 17(2)]
Protecting food from contaminationHigher risk
This covers how food is stored, prepared and displayed: raw meat kept away from ready-to-eat food, food covered and stored off the floor, and nothing dripping or splashing into it. Cross-contamination from raw to cooked food is a direct route for salmonella and E. coli.
Recorded once on May 22, 2025. For example:
209 - Food not protected from contamination [s. 12(a)]
Building, plumbing and upkeepLower risk
Floors, walls and ceilings must be smooth and clean, with working lighting, ventilation, plumbing, hot and cold water, and washrooms. These are rarely an immediate food-safety risk on their own, but persistent problems can lead to pest or sanitation issues.
Recorded once on May 19, 2026. For example:
306 - Food premises not maintained in a sanitary condition [s. 17(1)]
About this data
These results come from Fraser Health Authority, which inspects food premises and other public facilities in this area. We republish the authority's public disclosure data and refresh it regularly; the official record is the final word.
5 inspections
- Follow-Up Inspection
0 infractions
- Routine Inspection
2 infractions
- 302 - Equipment/utensils/food contact surfaces not properly washed and sanitized [s. 17(2)]
- Observation: The wiping cloths (just soaked wet with water) being used to clean and sanitize the food preparation area.
- Corrective Action(s): Make sure to soak wiping cloths in sanitizing solution of 100 ppm chlorine residual in sani buckets to ensure proper sanitizing action of food preparation area to kill and reduce the number of harmful microbes that can cause foodborne illnesses. Change the sanitizing solution in sani-buckets every 2-4 hours or when it gets visibly dirty and soak wiping cloths in solution at all times.
- Recommendation: use clean wiping cloths every time.
- Violation Score: 5
- 401 - Adequate handwashing stations not available for employees [s. 21(4)]
- Observation: Observation: sani-bucket with wiping cloth was placed in the handwashing station at the front area.
- Corrective Action(s): corrective action: Ensure all handwashing stations are free of any obstruction and accessible for people handwashing at all times. Proper hand hygien helps prevent spread of harmful microorganisms by food handlers. The sani-bucket ws removed by staff from handwashing station during inspection.
- Violation Score: 5
- 306 - Food premises not maintained in a sanitary condition [s. 17(1)]
- Observation: Observation: The upright cooler at the back have buildup of food debris, the fans in the same cooler have dirt accumulation.
- Corrective Action(s): clean and sanitize the upright cooler to prevent food contamination with disease causing organisms. Date to be corrected by May 27, 2026
- Violation Score: 3
- 307 - Equipment/utensils/food contact surfaces are not of suitable design/material [s. 16; s. 19]
- Observation: observation: The flour containers beside the cooking line have measuring bowls, being used as scoops.
- Corrective Action(s): Corrective action: Ensure to have properly designed, food grade material scoops with handles to be used in food containers that are frequently handled by staff to prevent the food contamination. Date to be corrected by May 27, 2026
- Violation Score: 3
- 309 - Chemicals, cleansers, & similar agents stored or labeled improperly [s. 27]
- Observation: Observation: The sani-buckets (plastic containers being used as sani-buckets) are not labelled which are kept in the food preparation area and front counter.
- Corrective Action(s): corrective action: make sure to label all the sanitizer buckets and spray bottles in use for the sanitizing purpose to avoid potential food contamination with chemicals.
- Violation Score: 3
- 302 - Equipment/utensils/food contact surfaces not properly washed and sanitized [s. 17(2)]
- Routine Inspection
0 infractions
- Routine Inspection
1 infraction
- 209 - Food not protected from contamination [s. 12(a)]
- Observation: Ice machine noted with build up of biomat at ice tray.
- Corrective Action(s): Plan for and shut unit down for thorough cleaning as discussed. Make sure this unit is part of sanitation plan and is cleaned on a schedule.
- Violation Score: 3
- 209 - Food not protected from contamination [s. 12(a)]
- Routine Inspection
0 infractions
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