{"id":17774,"date":"2026-09-18T10:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/17774\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:29:21","slug":"health-officials-shut-thai-restaurant-in-kona-for-rodent-infestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/17774\/","title":{"rendered":"Health officials shut Thai restaurant in Kona for \u2018rodent infestation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                        <img width=\"760\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/web1_20260731_WEB_Thai-red-card.jpeg\" class=\"img-fluid h-100 w-100\" alt=\"COURTESY DOH&#10;                                The Hawaii Department of Health on Wednesday closed Baan Thai Family Cuisine in Kona after it failed a routine inspection.\" style=\"max-height:600px;object-fit:contain;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>COURTESY DOH<\/p>\n<p>The Hawaii Department of Health on Wednesday closed Baan Thai Family Cuisine in Kona after it failed a routine inspection.<\/p>\n<p>Baan Thai Family Cuisine in Kailua-Kona has been shut down by the state Department of Health due to a \u201crodent infestation and multiple critical food safety violations,\u201d officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant \u2014 at 75-5744 Ali\u2018i Drive and operated by Miyavadee Khamya \u2014 received a red placard on Wednesday and must remain closed until the health officials conduct a follow-up inspection and all critical violations are resolved.<\/p>\n<p>The Health Department said in a news release that during a routine inspection, an inspector found the following violations: \u201can abundant amount\u201d of rodent feces throughout the restaurant, including on food-contact surfaces and nonfood-contact surfaces; visible points of entry for unwanted pests; food was not stored to prevent contamination; potentially hazardous foods were not maintained at proper temperature; and hand-washing sinks were not equipped with soap.<\/p>\n<p>The department is requiring the restaurant to take the multiple corrective actions before it can reopen, including discarding all contaminated food products and having a professional pest control operator service the establishment and submit a report to health officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COURTESY DOH The Hawaii Department of Health on Wednesday closed Baan Thai Family Cuisine in Kona after it failed a routine inspection. Baan Thai Family Cuisine in Kailua-Kona has been shut down by the state Department of Health due to a \u201crodent infestation and multiple critical food safety violations,\u201d officials said Thursday. The restaurant \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[93,5294,5292,5290,5293,17379,5291,444],"class_list":["post-17774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hawaii","tag-business","tag-hawaii","tag-hawaii-dining","tag-hawaii-food","tag-hawaii-grocery-stores","tag-hawaii-island","tag-hawaii-restaurants","tag-health"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@dc\/117291579057891512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}