If my family is any indication, the menu won’t get corrected until the restaurant owner sends their child to American schools and the kid gets old enough to fix it. Just give it 11 or 12 years.
Why? I can understand cutting Chinese restaurants some slack because of a possible language barrier with owners, but what's wrong with ones who are fluent in English? Or have the resources to hire a good agency to put together their menu and proofread it?
Not GP but I have the same red flag system. If it's perfect english (or whatever native language you use) it's more likely that not the restaurant is run by a native, not a real chinese family. So warning flags, most likely not the best the chinese kitchen can deliver :-)
It's a way to find family-owned restaurants. The other ones are "good Asian restaurants have bad service" (though I don't think that's true anymore) and "good restaurants will never be expensive".
The last one is a problem because real family restaurants do want to raise prices/be more upscale too, but none of their customers will let them because they expect banh mi to be $3.
Additionally, I have it in my head that not bothering to fix menus shows a certain admirable pragmatism. "Frind pok" is not correct but it is correct enough.
