Xin, carrying a<span style="font-style: italic">very</span>large tray of apetizers into the living room, nods.<span style="color: #0080FF">"He'll come. I don't know if he'll stay. There's no alcohol here save a small bottle of chinese burnwine - you can all have a taste once the entreé is served - and there's only enough for a shot glass each, as per chinese tradition. Like I said, Chase never misses a party. Though he might bail if he gets bored."</span>He put the tray of apetizers onto the table, on a predetermined space empty of snacks bowls. On it were dumplings, spring rolls, small spiced rice cakes, chicken nuggets, fried noodles with various vegetables and spices, and a large kettle of mango tea. All in all, the "apetizers" were enough to let all present eat 'till they were full, two times over. But Xin went back into the kitchen immediately, working on the entreés.<span style="color: #0080FF">"Don't eat yourselves full on those things! The main event has yet to come."</span>