It doesn't take rocket science to figure out that we non-Chinese are treated differently than regulars at an authentic Chinese restaurant.
Westerners throw away.
Further, we're confined to the less-exotic English language menu, left to wonder what dozens of handwritten Chinese language blackboard specials conceal. Now, I'm not boasting, but I was in a Ph. D. program in linguistics myself, and I did finish my masters, so you won't feel bad when I tell you that I couldn't make hide nor hare of this book. It helped me recognize a few characters, but unfortunately, Chinese blackboards aren't block printed like characters in the professor's book, rather handwritten. Then there is the even thornier problem of idioms. Solve this problem by dining at a modest Chinese restaurant called Food Express.