"Authentic" Chinese Food?

The other day I saw some guy (who was a white American) complaining about how the food in most American Chinese restaurants is not "authentic". His idea of authentic was all this expensive crap personally cooked by a chef. I doubt the average man in China has access to that.

There's a restaurant near my house that could be considered authentic Szechuan. It's not expensive at all, most of its customers are actual Chinese people (not to mention the menu in Chinese and the chefs Chinses immigrants), and the food doesn't give me stomach aches.

Really, it depends where you look.