I think the obvious answer is yes.

I just used a few, though, in my response to Wiley's latest chinabites blog post:

Dude. Hui restaurant in your "old neighborhood." An ayi that remembers you and a bearded shushu. 水煮风片. 素炒饼. Best green beans in the history of green beans. Wow. They're back in business. That is truly great news. They are my favorite restauranteurs in Beijing. I don't think we would have ever moved out of Dong Wang Zhuang had they not closed up shop. Please send my love.

Hmmm.

I think the biggest reason I felt compelled to include the characters is that I think pinyin is so damn unelegant looking.  I think I might need to suck it up and deal with it, though.  Alienating people that might participate in an English-only comment thread but won't feel comfortable participating in an elitist bilingual thread is not a cool thing to do.