I suppose it's much the same as someone from China walking into a North American Chinese food restaurant. I highly doubt they'll find much they'd be eating back home.
I don't think it's actually that bad, as there are very few large 'Chinese Restaurant Chains' (Mandarin is the only one that comes to mind) that cater to the 'non-Chinese' market. Most Chinese restaurants are still run as small businesses by people doing authentic Chinese cooking. There are some concessions to North American tastes, or people like me who are a fusion of Chinese and North American culture, but the differences you see are more regional variations as opposed to stereotypes. (Cantonese versus Szechuan, versus Shanghai, etc.)
What you don't find is the 'street food' that you get in Taiwan or China. Some Dim Sum is converted street food (e.g. pork buns), but, you don't get the deep friend scorpion or random seafood on a stick or the rolled egg pancakes on a griddle sort of thing, for example.
And most 'regular' Chinese meals are a lot simpler than what you would see in North America - almost every meal is boiled rice, some vegetables, a little meat. Some tofu from time to time, depending on region. Nothing fancy.
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I don't think it's actually that bad, as there are very few large 'Chinese Restaurant Chains' (Mandarin is the only one that comes to mind) that cater to the 'non-Chinese' market. Most Chinese restaurants are still run as small businesses by people doing authentic Chinese cooking. There are some concessions to North American tastes, or people like me who are a fusion of Chinese and North American culture, but the differences you see are more regional variations as opposed to stereotypes. (Cantonese versus Szechuan, versus Shanghai, etc.)
What you don't find is the 'street food' that you get in Taiwan or China. Some Dim Sum is converted street food (e.g. pork buns), but, you don't get the deep friend scorpion or random seafood on a stick or the rolled egg pancakes on a griddle sort of thing, for example.
And most 'regular' Chinese meals are a lot simpler than what you would see in North America - almost every meal is boiled rice, some vegetables, a little meat. Some tofu from time to time, depending on region. Nothing fancy.
JGH