Sun Gate Mongolian BBQ, located inside the Sunvalley Mall in Concord, was closed this week after inspectors from the Contra Costa County Health Department say they found the following.
- 1 live cockroach inside the monitoring trap on the floor next to the walk-in refrigerator (with walk-in freezer inside)
- 1 live cockroach on top of the floor sink cover that was stored on top of the grease trap pipe. Grease trap located
between the food preparation sink and 3 compartment sink. - 1 dead cockroach on the floor next to the monitoring trap which is located next to the walk-in refrigerator.
- 3 dead cockroaches on the floor underneath the racks that store boxes of dried noodles.
- 5 rodent droppings inside container that stores the grill scrapper.
- 5+ rodent droppings inside the container that stores plastic lids for the large plastic food containers
The restaurant has since been reinspected and reopened.
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Well…… I’m sure ALLLLL of the other food places in the mall are free of cockroaches and other creepy crawlers. Eating ally the mall, no thanks.
a dead cockroach is better than a live one and usually means that they are doing something about it….
rodent droppings inside containers is just gross and definitely a reason to be written up for and closed for proper clean up!.
Clearly, the shopping center has issues and I hope the shopping center is taking measures to get rid of this problem and not just leaving the individual business to handle it. The problem is much “deeper” than that .
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Bonfare Market on Grant Street was also closed on the 27th for a vermin infestation.
The mall has now become “he Shops at Hillltop”, a much more gentrified and upscale version of its former self:
https://shophilltop.com/
I feel they should just close that food court
I haven’t been to the Sunvalley Shopping Center in years. Where is the food court? I know they added an arcade.
Erm, they just opened it.
AUGH! Gross!! I remember that the Mongolian BBQ place was nice YEARS ago!! Good choices, good prices, etc. Now the price is at least 100% higher than it was 10 years ago and the portions (especially the noodles) were at least 40% larger. No More!! And no more will I go there!!!
FANNIE’S ALL PURPOSE PEST REMEDY FROM AMAZON-perhaps the health inspector can help these restaurants out!!! give them this tip!!!
Sun Valley has had several incidents like this over the past few years. Upshot for me is I won’t eat anything anywhere in the whole complex, inside or out. I noticed when I was there a week or so ago that the sandwich shop near the Sears entrance had rodent traps in 3 different locations outside. I guess they are trying but it’s a big turn off for me.
It’s actually normal for all restaurants to do pest control to prevent vermin. Traps are not a sign of a problem. All restaurants have pests; the best one limit the problem.
Since when is it ok for “All restaurants (to) have pests.” This is a fairly new development in Concord. I grew up here when it was considered rural and there weren’t rodents and cockroaches in restaurants or in anybody’s homes, either. The first cockroach I ever saw was in a place in Oakland rented near where I worked in the early 70s. I didn’t even know what they were until a neighbor complained about them. Anyone who accepts that “All restaurants have pests” isn’t from around here and is part of the problem if the accept then as normal. It’s not a normal state of affairs for restaurants to have rodents and cockroaches. Even flies are ridiculous. No kitchen should have anything skulking around on the counters, near the food, or anywhere, not even ants, if cleanliness is a top priority.
Never been there. I eat at home. This is why.
How about these places that get shut down are ordered to get a mandatory contract with exterminators for ever. I don’t work in a food place and my building has exterminators come in every month.
Since this is on the floor above the Food Court, I wonder how many roaches and rodents just moved to the Court. Likely Charlies Philly Steaks or the place next to it
It’s like those little green army men with the parachutes.
Overrun with rodents & roaches?
So then…. it’s authentic Mongolian BBQ.
REAL Mongolian BBQ is all about the rodents. Marmots specifically. They empty the carcass through the neck, and stuff full with fired rocks and some root vegetables before tied / sewn shut and allowed to balloon up and cook in the carcass like a pressure cooker. Often done with goats to. Delicious.
And some Khangai Mountain Oysters….. Nom!
Ate here twice. My wife got sick after the second visit. That was over 2 years ago. Things haven’t changed it seems.
It’s more likely you got sick from someone not washing their hands or improper food storage than a pest problem.
Unfortunately, that is way too commpn.