Light split hero: serif headline with italic accent, avatar-stack social proof, floating broth card over the photo, numbered House Favorites band. Inspiration 01–04.
Sage-paper magazine: centered masthead, giant serif headline with a photo woven into the type, thin-rule stat strip, numbered story + favorites sections. Green carried by the canvas, editorial devices carry the polish.
The dark flip of the green direction: deep-forest canvas, chartreuse accents, serif headline about the overnight simmer, arched photo frame, herb ticker, brand pull-quote band. Probes a dark theme variant.
Typographic / no-photo: a marigold page-border frame, a mixed-type poster headline (script + serif + slab caps), and a coral line-art bowl instead of a photo. Retro-deli, ownable, green woven in. Borrows Rose Foods (16).
Monochrome & attitude: one saturated chili-maroon canvas floods everything, photos are duotone-tinted into it, and a blunt values headline carries the POV — overnight broth, no MSG, no shortcuts. Borrows Rebel Rebel (15).
Modular tile-grid: an airy line-art intro with an ink badge, then a bento mosaic of colored nav tiles interleaved with photo tiles — navigation IS the grid. Graphic, bilingual, culturally apt. Borrows Yang's (28).
Illustration-led / mascot: a custom water-buffalo illustration is the hero centerpiece, a chunky rounded-serif vibe-list headline is the pitch, and the kitchen's own dish illustrations carry the favorites. Playful, ownable. Borrows Loro (27).