How to have lunch in a foreign country when you don't speak the language

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Get menu. Look at menu. Decide "ensalad" was salad, and I want something heavier. See something with "salmone" in it. Figure fish never hurts. Order water "agua". No gas. (Gas with water? I'd expect gas from the main course.) Get honking big plate of thinly sliced salmon, with cheese and capers. Also get bowl of some brothy looking soup which was served cold and *way* to spicy to eat out of a spoon. However it does go nicely when I dip one of the bowl full of crackers into the soup. Which is probably why they gave me a bowl of crackers in the first place. Have pleasant lunch totally unlike an american lunch. Listen to the half dozen 20 somethings having fun chatting while they wait for the rest of their party to show up. Leave 10% tip, which is small for an american but apprently a decent tip here.

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[mrzodiac.livejournal.com]

If I ask you nicely, will you send me a postcard from one of these places? Or bring one back of the postage is to insane.