Originally Posted by
GoodOmens
Which is exactly why you need to find the ethnic restaurants that cater to their own ethnic groups (Or as you pointed out, have separate menu's). You can find them if you look in the right places - I've had friends tell me that restaurants I take them to (or that they taken me to) are just as good as back home.
Granted you miss the atmosphere by a long shot (at least in DC where all the great ethnic joints are in strip malls - no joke!), it still helps fill the void ;-)
The recommended way to go. Ordering may be difficult as there may be no to very little English (all the "good" stuff is in the native language), but you may find helpful waiters or a helpful patron from a neighboring table.
re: strip malls. I remember Toronto has hundreds of Cantonese restaurants all in strip malls. The average quality of those restaurants are very high too.