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        "user_review_signal_snapshot": "Live review source needed.",
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        "charming_entry": "Salween River Restaurant is a Mae Hong Son food-route candidate because adds cross-border shan/burmese/local context but needs source validation. Order logic: Burmese/Shan/Thai dishes, tea leaf salad candidates; verify. History/opening: Opening date not source-verified. Publish caveat: Avoid if source cannot validate current operation. Confidence: low.",
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        "city": "Mae Hong Son",
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