Lost in Translation

One of the dangers one runs is exposed to when eating in a restaurant here is believing the translations in the English language menus.  I am reminded of a restaurant in Varanasi, India that had misspelled Snacks as Snakes.  Of at least we hope it was a misspelling as we weren't brave enough  to order some snakes...

Old Edgar's a.k.a Starry Edgars a.k.a. старые Эдгарс, is a nice little pub type place in Oak Park that we like to go to.  They have an item on their menu called "Chocolate Slab."  We all, and yes, there were four adults at this meal, debated what this could possibly mean.  We decided that it probably meant a slab of chocolate and we needed to find out.

Yup, that's a slab of chocolate.

At another meal at Mimino, a lovely Georgian restaurant, our friend Michelle decided to challenge the menu again, this time with a dessert labelled Honey.  Unfortunately I don't have a picture, but yes...it was a bowl of honey.  Just a bowl of honey.  Honestly, it was just a bowl full of honey.

Lesson: Don't challenge Kyrgyz menus and thank god we didn't order those snakes.