One thing that had shocked the Gryffindor when she had studied abroad in New York several summers ago was the serving sizes in America. Everything was so BIG and the two dishes that were brought out next were no exception. BIG.

Taking a small sample of the steak, Kurumi raised her hand. "Professor, this dish is also called Country Fried Steak. As others have already said, it is associated with Texas cuisine, but its origins may be from German and Austrian immigrants to Texas in the 19th century. I believe that this conclusion was made because it resembles a dish from Austria.." What that name was exactly she had no idea and she didn't really want to venture a guess and butcher the accent on the word.

Looking at the soup now, a small smile tickled the corners of her lips. Now THIS was something that she new and enjoyed. She ate it in Japan too during school lunch when it came to be winter, but without the sour dough bread since that was rare in her country. Cannon balls. Hehe. Kurumi really enjoyed this sort of bread and wished that it was more readily available in Japan. Finding French bread was hard to come by. So, Kurumi raised her hand again. "That is New England clam chowder," she said. There were, what, six different varieties of the soup after all. "It varies from the other clam chowders in that it is milk or cream based and traditionally was thickened with sea biscuits or hardtack crackers instead of flour, which is the more common and accepted way of thickening a chowder."