Hey now, I wouldn’t go that far.
I love good, well-prepared Chinese food. It’s a virtual certainty that you can get better Chinese in a lot of places in Tokyo than you will ever get in Beijing.
In fact, I have a lot of associates in Singapore of Chinese decent and recently spent a week there myself. The food is awesome — minus the MSG that is shoved into virtually everything made for eating in China itself.
Good, well-prepared chow is to be appreciated wherever the recipe originates.