Beijing Eats:Beijing Eats: A Food Lover's Companion to China's Culinary Capital (Chinese Edition) (English and Chinese Edition) (Paperback)

~ Eileen Wen Mooney (Author)

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The best of Chinas great cooking styles can be found in Beijing if you know where to look and Eileen Wen Mooney knows where. A Beijing resident and food writer, she shows you an insiders list of Beijings best regional restaurants, from hole-in-the-wall eateries to the finest of fine dining.

Sample the vanishing arts of Shandongs delicate cuisine, savor Sichuan favorites the way theyre really meant to be, taste the exotic dishes of Chinas far frontiers: Beijing Eats takes you on a culinary voyage through Chinas 28 provinces without ever leaving Beijing.

140 restaurants, 496 dishes, 31 regional and historic cuisines

Bilingual addresses, maps, and names of dishes, plus a handy ordering guide

Comprehensive indexes of restaurants and dishes

Packed with detail and enthusiasm, Beijing Eats is a lot more than a restaurant guide. Its a tabletop primer on one of the worlds great cuisines, indispensable for the casual diner and the dedicated food-lover alike.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: China Population Publishing House (January 1, 2009)
• Language: English, Chinese
• ISBN-10: 7802029430
• ISBN-13: 978-7802029439
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #913,067 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Don't leave for Beijing without it!, September 11, 2009

By	N. Sankaran (Cairo, Egypt) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This the the non-Chinese speaking Chinese food lovers' gift from Goddess (aka Ms. Mooney as far as I'm concerned). Not only does it cover all the best restaurants of every subtype of Chinese cuisine imaginable, she tells you which dishes to try where (all her recommendations were spot on), and this the best bonus of all - the main details addresses and key menu items are provided in Chinese script for each establishment. This detail made navigating through this bewildering city a joy and also allowed us to not fall into the trap of ordering the same old things everywhere. You see not only does hardly anyone speak English, menus sometimes come only in Chinese AND without photographs. Simply pointing and hoping for the best can sometimes prove hazardous. Thanks to this book I sampled widely trying different regional cuisines. Now if only someone would pay me to write something like this about a city in India...

5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable for those traveling to Beijing, July 15, 2009

By	Joel Eisen "Crossword and book lover" (Glen Allen, VA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The noted Beijing food writer Eileen Wen Mooney published the book "Beijing Eats" in February 2009. I spent five months in Beijing, starting literally the week this book was published. As I had followed Ms. Mooney's columns for months before departing for Beijing, I was eagerly awaiting this book and bought it on one of my first days in China.

I was not disappointed. "Beijing Eats" was an invaluable companion and well worth every penny for the savory descriptions of Beijing food alone. There are dozens of Chinese regional cuisines represented in Beijing and Mooney covers them with aplomb. Because of this focus on regional cuisines (the book is arranged alphabetically by region), you could read this book like a food history, without ever going to any of the 140 restaurants recommended. As a food treatise, it would be a very satisfying read, with excellent pictures to match. But of course I did use the book for restaurant recommendations, eating at about 20 of the places Mooney recommended. To her credit, she makes a point of not just recommending the "big name" restaurants, but instead runs the gamut from neighborhood holes in the wall to top-shelf eateries. That made it all the more valuable to me. None of her picks was a clunker, and all provided excellent meals.

My only suggestion would be to simplify the indices. It was sometimes difficult to find a restaurant's listing quickly.