Jessica offers a polite thanks for the bowl of food, natural habit for a lady raised in the Southwest.<br/><br/>"Yeah, actually, it was.  Though I think that one is cracked, or did crack, just after they put it up.  It's the shrine just over there," she says, gesturing with her chopsticks before digging in to the noodles with surprising gusto.  She was hungrier than she thought she'd be.