Either I’m the stupidest person here or the most honest. The character system overwhelmed me, so I stuck to pinyin when learning how to talk. So I don’t need to point at menu pictures, but I can’t understand the full options at a restaurant either. I’ll try again to learn how to read and write one day. I can write my name at least.
Just point Google Translate App in picture mode on the menu.
Some dish names will be weird, but they are actually named ‘randomly’.
Even if you know Chinese, you would not know what the dish is about unless they use descriptive names instead of local jargon.