The menu-cited pomegranate dressing was missing; thus the salad primarily consisted of crisp fennel and not much else.

A popular Siberian salad called stroganina consists of uncooked frozen omul cut finely and served with pepper, salt and onion.

Where a "salad" might consist of small sticks of beets and asparagus surrounded by tiny red-edged beet greens and topped with fat, hot little fritters filled with rock shrimp.

The salad consisted of hearts of palm and iceberg lettuce.

In its most basic form the salad consists of thin, tart orange slices served with olive oil, salt and black pepper.

The mixed salad ($3.50) consists of hunks of iceberg lettuce with slices of hothouse tomatoes and rings of onion.

Another time the starter was the Blue Honu chopped salad, which wasn't chopped, consisted mainly of iceberg lettuce and needed more dressing.

The green salad that impressed consisted of long, thin strips of cucumber formed into a nest to hold baby lettuces and herbs in a balsamic vinaigrette.

The cold salad consisted of minced chicken - I prefer it with beef, but that was not an option - rice powder, scallions, mint, red chili powder and lime juice.

Essentially, the salad consists of three main parts: the noodles, the vinegar-based sauce, and the garnish.