Beijing Eats author Eileen Wen Mooney has started her own blog, eileeneats - much like the book, she writes about Chinese cuisine beyond your everyday jia chang cai - everything from Guilin rice noodles to the delights of duck soup and recipes for meicai kourou (steamed pork belly with meigan cai).

Check it out here.

The ultimate English language guide to Beijing's Chinese restaurants is finally here! It’s called Beijing Eats – A Food-Lover's Companion to China's Culinary Capital, and it guides you to 140 of Beijing’s best Chinese restaurants, covering 31 regional and historic cuisines.

It’s rare that your humble map correspondent ever has anything exciting to report – aside from the release of another Immersion Guides Area Guide – but this time, something finally sparks among the usual slurry of openings and closings.

We are elated to announce that Sanlitun Fall 2008 Area Guide brings you Beijing’s best hot dogs. Perfectly juicy, bursting with flavor, these frankfurters are both delicious and cheap. The delightful Mr. Wei starts grilling only after you order, so the sausage arrives piping hot and the bun lightly toasted. This belies the humble hot dog stand’s name, No More Bunz, but we can’t complain – it would be hard to hold together that mountain of toppings and drizzles of mustard and ketchup without a trusty bun.

Opened by a Canadian, No More Bunz is one of the most cheerful little spots to open in Sanlitun. Unlike the meticulously designed and marketed restaurants and bars that have lately graced Sanlitun, this humble hot dog stand focuses all its attention upon the food. There’s no fancy concept here, no mirrored walls or cushy booths. There are, in fact, no chairs at all at No More Bunz – little more than an opening in the wall – but the hot dogs are so good that you won’t mind.

With Valentine's Day approaching, new pasta deals at Flamme and much more to report, here we are with this week's roundup of the latest news, gossip and scandal from Beijing's restaurant scene. Let's go!

Here we are with the second of our two-part Valentine's Day dining guide. After yesterday's roundup of everything that isn't a buffet, today we present our list of all your options if you want an international feast of self-served, all-you-can-eat cuisine. One or two even have free-flow alcohol thrown in to help move your evening along ...