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"My mother’s favorite and the place she took us as kids with an educational mindset, it specializes in the king’s meal — a traditional, elevated multi-course style that looks back to the Goryeo dynasty and was served to the monarchy — where banchan are refined and each dish speaks for itself; I recently felt overjoyed seeing non-Koreans at a birthday there appreciate dishes like muk (acorn jelly), which felt embarrassing to me as a child but now I happily eat with others." - Jean Trinh