Perfectly happy to stay downtown instead of fighting traffic on the DVP for forty minutes. MaPo tofu is perfect at Szechuan Garden, soup dumplings at Asian Legend and so on. Downtown has had a recent influx of Northern Chinese restaurants and others serving Beijing street food. Check out chowhound, yelp and blogto for advice. Globe has never been good at understanding ethnic food - in the past has sent us to some perfectly dreadful choices.