A Chinese restaurant in Oxfordshire “needs” to improve its hygiene.

Parasol on Market Place in Abingdon is a popular Chinese eatery in the town that has favourable reviews on Tripadvisor.

One customer last month said: “Absolutely fantastic meal, service was great, food was delicious.

“So glad that we called in without having booked. Celebrated our 27th anniversary with a meal to remember.”

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Parasol in Abingdon.Parasol in Abingdon. (Image: Google Maps)

Yet Vale of White Horse District Council’s Environmental Health team were not as impressed during their visit on Thursday, August 29.

Handing the business a poor food hygiene rating of two-out-of-five, the report said that improvement was “necessary” at the venue.

One major cause of concern was the cleanliness and condition of the facilities and the building which was deemed to need “improvement”.

This includes having an appropriate layout, ventilation, hand washing facilities and pest control to enable good food hygiene.

Despite these issues, the eatery’s management of food safety was rated as being of a “generally satisfactory” standard.

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This refers to having a system or checks in place to ensure that food sold or served is safe to eat as well as if there is evidence that staff know about food safety.

It also concerns whether or not the food safety officer has confidence that standards will be maintained in future.

Similarly, Parasol’s hygienic handling of food, referring to the preparation, cooking, re-heating, cooling and storage, was also marked as being “generally satisfactory”.

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