He laughed. "Sure, though you didn't steal my table." He held up two fingers to the server. "Two pots of green tea, please."
Once the man had left, he picked up some chicken with his chop sticks and said, "I don't mind you asking. I'm in law enforcement." That sounded less glib than 'I'm a cop' which always made James think of gangster movies or 'T.J. Hooker' or any other police show on reruns at the moment.