My belly's full...butterflies are gone.

I just survived my first sit-down restaurant. It's one thing to get food from a supermarket or convenience store, where you just pick out where you want and you don't even really have to talk...but when you have to pick out and tell the person what you want....ooogh.

I went to a ramen shop, which I guess was fitting. I was very close to going to McDonald's, where I could at least figure out katakana and possibly have an easier time, but that was far out there and I wasn't quite sure of my abilities yet. Champon Ramen is right down the street from the center. I read somewhere that every ramen shop has their own recipe for soup, and that's how they get and keep customers. Thankfully, there was a picture menu, so all I had to do was point to the picture and the size and say, "Kore wo kudasai (This, please)." It was called kotteri ramen. It was ramen in a soup with lots of mung bean sprouts and green onions and two big slabs of pork and seaweed on the side. It was really good. I would've eaten it all, but it was way too big. The small bowl was huge, and you can get two bigger sizes than that. That's crazy, man...