Don't knock pictures on Menus. Many, many times I've been extremely grateful for pictures on menus, or plastic replica of the entrees shown in a display case.
This is quite common in the Orient. A visit to a small Mom & Pop restaurant in the back streets of Pusan, Korea which had neither pictures or plastic replicas resulted in my first taste if Kim-chi... genuine, full-bore, what-the locals-eat KIM-CHI! (or course, a photo of stewed cabbage & tomatoes would not have alerted me)
I spent 4 years of my life in Japan. I love picture menus and plastic replicas. I also like Kim-chi. I only spent a few months on Korea. Team spirits and some other exercise I can’t recall the name of.