Explanations of menu terms like lúcuma and chicha morada were rushed and mumbled.
A square of lush braised pork belly, soft and sweet, came with fried oysters and what the menu terms Hatch Chili kimchi.
The food in each course (appetizer, entree, dessert) was so delicious it did not need the irritatingly twee menu terms with words like drizzle, frizzle, shower and spill.
What the menu termed "unusual" soft-shell crab came with a choice of Penang curry or garlic sauce; we chose the curry and were rewarded with a blast of kaffir lime and chili that nicely offset the rich fried meat.
Jamie Lee Curtis plays one of his partners in a London jewel heist, a woman who goes wild with passon whenever Otto speaks Italian (his vocabulary consists mostly of menu terms).
Chinatown's Maxwell Food Centre, a converted 1950s market, has about a hundred tempting hawker stalls, but the longest queues are at Tian Tian, where a plate of chicken rice goes for less than £2, with some aficionados ordering just wings, claws or whatever goes into what the menu terms "spare parts".
As spa menus begin to look a lot like restaurant menus, the term "day of indulgence" takes on fresh new meaning.
In the late 1990's, as the city's trendier restaurants added ever more costly and exotic-sounding bottled waters to their menus, the term "Giuliani water" endured and took on a droll, mildly acidic tone.
(The menu translates the term as "tandoori-seasoned chicken cooked rotisserie style").
Despite his micro-management of the first Next menu, the long-term plan is that the restaurant be more collaborative.
