• Foreign food is ultrapopular in China right now, with over 5,000 Western restaurants in Beijing alone. [ABC News]
• Nation’s Restaurant News will end its current weekly schedule and go biweekly next year. [Food Writer’s Diary]
• Padma Lakshmi will appear on 30 Rock on November 12. [Eater National]
• Nello Balan is not impressed by the Russian billionaires dropping thousands of dollars at his eponymous restaurant, but it does make him happy. [NYP]
• Prior to the opening of Delmonico’s, New York was without restaurants for 200 years. [Gothamist]
• A New Hampshire restaurant has set a world record with a 222.5-pound meatball. [NYDN]
• Former Gourmet staffer Francis Lam has been tapped to head Salon’s forthcoming food site. [Eater National]