Shen Qingqiu scoffs cheerfully. "Of course I'm going to make you wait, Sims, what's the point of inviting you over and then spoiling the surprise over the phone? Are you on your way right now? I can put the kettle on." This is a phrase he's stolen wholesale from Jon and Martin, because he thinks it's funny. All three of them like tea, of course they do, but the whole thing British people make out of it is hysterically funny to him. After all, it was China's thing first.