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Plate with grilled vegetables and herbs garnished with black sesame seeds and drizzled with orange and green sauces, held by chopsticks on a wooden table at Anjin in Kansas City.

Anjin is up for Best New Restaurant. Photo: Abbey Higginbotham/Axios

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