Rarely do you find a chef/restaurant owner who so successfully transforms herself from a student from Malaysia to chef to restaurant entrepreneur as has Vanessa Lim. And for longtime Washingtonians, they will remember fondly the fuss and enthusiasm over the opening on 19th Street NW of Oodles Noodles, preceded a few months earlier by the opening of Spices, a pan-Asian cafe on upper Connecticut Avenue. That is quite a journey for a young lady who came to the United States to get a master’s degree in business and ended up as a restaurant entrepreneur.