I was thinking about checking out the offerings at Trader Joe's before moving on to an actual restaurant. I'm kind of worried about going to an Indian restaurant and not knowing what to order and looking like an idiot.
I would hope I'm not entirely ethnic-food phobic. I do love Chinese.

. . . well, the fake Chinese food they pass off on us silly Americans, anyway.
And mexican. Yum, guacamole. And Italian, what's not to love about that?
Seriously though, living here there's no excuse not to have at least a passing familiarity with authentic ethnic foods. Granted we're pretty white-bread, but we do have Jungle Jim's, where you can get anything from anywhere.
Back to the Indian thing . . . apologizing for the total thread drift . . . I'll be into it next quarter because I'm taking another post-colonial literature class with our Indian professor.