This article explores a Korean restaurant that utilizes a unique ambiance by playing popular K-pop music instead of traditional restaurant sounds. The restaurant, located in a bustling strip mall, offers a modern take on Korean cuisine with smaller, homestyle dishes.
When walking into a restaurant, you likely first notice the smell. Maybe it’s fresh chopped herbs or deep-fried meat. If not the smell, it's the visuals: Is it a full house or an empty one? A rustic or modern aesthetic? Fine or casual dining? We were first hit with the sound. Not the sizzle of a grill, plates clanking together or the sharp cuts of a knife, but of the song “Fiction” by K-pop boy band Beast, now known as Highlight.
On a rotation with dozens of other earworm K-pop classics, which happens to be more of a moodsetter than a candlelit table or any amount of front-of-house theatrics. The restaurant, situated in a sprawling strip mall that hosts 11 different Asian restaurants, replaced Chang Jing Korean BBQ in June 2020, implementing a new style of Korean fare that favored smaller, more homestyle dishes. At the booth, we were first served small salads with cucumber, carrots and a cherry tomato, along with a small piece of crab meat topped with a tangy ginger dressing
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