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Originally posted by V960

It has been my personal experience that unless you have a Chinese speaking person w/ you in a Chinese restaurant in America you’re going to get faux Chinese food. Double fried this and cheese stuffed that…

My wife is originally from China. When we got to a Chinese restaurant and she talks to them in English we are given "foreign devil" menus, but if she talks to them in Chinese she gets a Chinese menu. The items on the Chinese menu are usually cooked by the head chef, while those on the English menu are usually cooked by the assistants.