The safe option at restaurants 5.

Even worse, you'll go to different Chinese restaurants offering all the staple dishes that you have by now become very familiar with but fail to taste the delicacies and specialities offered by each because your effective menu is just the same few dishes you always order at Chinese.

What's the moral of the story?

Be more curious, be less afraid, try something new. Trust me, the world of food is a rabbit hole worth diving into.