"They are learning quickly here," Li Hua contested with her finger raised to make her point, though she obviously agreed, and continued, "but even in Chinatown you cannot find many places that will make squid; it is not very pretty, but very tasty." She grinned, and it froze for a second as she thought to recall whether Beijing was actually coastal, and considered perhaps revising her Earth geography when she got in that night. Especially if it was supposed to be her cover story. She did miss the food from home, though, that much was honest and she could spare an expression of appropriate wistfulness before she tossed back her own shot in the briefest display of a gap in her dainty restraint. Her face screwed up then as she dropped the glass back onto the bar, and she waggled a finger saying, "Please," for Misty to poach another lime wedge for her.