Going out to dinner

In a rare event, we are going out to dinner -- because I worked hard after my husband's recent surgery and I deserve to not cook.

I hesitated to tell my husband I wanted to go to Chinese, because I knew what he would say. And he said it. "We can't go there, it would kill us." I know that's true, but I've never had trouble saying no at a buffet. He does, but I don't. I am in the mood for Chinese....I have 24 hrs to convince him that it will be ok.