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Fortune’s got the scoop on a new Chipotle-owned fast food concept — an Asian restaurant called ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen that will open in Dupont Circle in a matter of days.

It writes:

The food will feature a mix of meats and fresh vegetables served in a bowl with spicy sauces and aromatic herbs. The flavors will be a blend of Thai, Vietnamese, and Malaysian. The style will be “fast casual”: Customers move along a cafeteria-style line, with servers behind the counter customizing each meal. You can sit down and eat — there’s room for roughly 40 — or take out your meal. The intriguing thing about ShopHouse, though, is it’s not the startup of a fledgling, but the wholly owned experiment of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., already a national leader in fast-casual cuisine and No. 54 on Fortune’s 2011 list of the 100 Fastest-Growing Companies.

Though the Dupont location is currently covered in newspaper, making snooping impossible, Eater did manage to grab a few pictures off of an open website.

Don’t get me wrong — I like the idea of Chipotle, and the food’s certainly not bad. But if their Asian alternative makes me feel as stuffed as Chipotle often does, well, I’ll consider that a culinary cross-cultural accomplishment.