"A Portland Korean American restaurant that began as a home-built operation in a converted auto body shop loft with an interior courtyard, creating a cozy, porous environment where family life and service blended—toddlers learned to walk between tables and early service was run by a tiny, tight-knit team. As demand and the family grew, the arrangement became unsustainable, prompting a move to separate living quarters shortly before the pandemic and illustrating the limits of merging home and restaurant life." - ByLydia Kiesling