#but in pagliuzza his resources would be limited so

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han-seo reminiscing about his pre-Jang-household days and talking about how he misses his mother, that in his CEO days he'd been hiring different cooks to recreate a certain meal that his mother used to make but it was never quite right, the way they cooked it, and the specific recipe itself is probably lost forever bc god only knows where his mother's belongings went after her death, Han-seo didn't get access to many of them; and Vincenzo files this away with nothing more but a hum

much later in Pagliuza, when Han-seo has all but forgotten about having told Vincenzo about this meal, the Korean cooks Vincenzo hired specifically for Han-seo and Cha-young serve up this exact meal and it's not exactly the way his mother made it but it comes pretty close, so close that tears gather in Han-seo's eyes and he gets so choked up he can't even swallow another bite, and Vincenzo tells him he put his contacts in Korea (read: two of his closest allies from a certain intelligence agency) on the case of finding the missing recipe of Jang Han-seo's mother and finally they found it and Han-seo gets even more choked up