Thank God for picture menus

My first adventure out on my own - dinner. As Chef Ramsey says never trust a menu with pictures. Tonight I luckily choose a restaurant that was just that. One large picture book. The picture looked like chicken, but she said they were noodles - I order because of the spinach looking stuff. The back beautiful produce pictures - and eggplant was my choice. No automatic side of rice - I'm in whole food heaven! When I asked for a knife, my bad pronunciation from my Chinese language map - the hand gesture of cut did the trick. And this place is right around the corner from my hotel. I'm set! Now to thaw out from my cold outdoor day and ready for the Opera. Yipee.