"Hasibe." Surprise. "She said you two met when you arrived? She's the one with ... the dog ..." that is the size of a bear.

The menu is full of things he doesn't really recognize, but he picks something that might be full of protein; Bruce really will eat just about anything pending it's not over-processed, it's kind of alarming. It's not even that he has no taste or a strong stomach, but that he's been so many places in the world that nothing really fazes him anymore. Once you've acclimated so much to rancid yak butter tea in the Himalayas enough to like it, alien entrees aren't so weird.

Thus he actually looks sort of interested as he pages through the menu and asks, "Have you been here before?"