Sunday night bartending.

[bad_in_latin]

Mal got creative today; he brought his own sign to work, drawn out by long brushstrokes in varied colors.

It's Chinese New Year for some of you.

Chinese is nice.

Specials
China Village Mai Tai
China White
Leap Year

OR, say something in Chinese and your drink is half-off.

Welcome to bartending.

[ooc: it will likely be an early night, but am

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[supaahiro]

And here is a Hiro. "Xin nian kuaile!"

And then he adds, conspiritorialy, "That the only Chinese I know."

Isn't that darling?

[bad_in_latin]

Mal laughs, "And that's good enough for me. What'd you like?"

[supaahiro]

"I wanna try the Mai Tai," he says, and points.

Froofy drinks for the win.

[bad_in_latin]

Naturally, Mal thinks with a grin.

Froofy drinks are fine by him; he just can't see Hiro with anything else.

Mal starts adding ice cubes to a shaker, followed by the rum. "How're things with you nowadays?"

[fighter__pilot]

"What if we don't know what Chinese is?" Shalla asks, frowning slightly.

[bad_in_latin]

"It's a language, and on Earth they just had their New Year's celebration," Mal explains. "We speak Chinese in my 'verse too, just that we had our New Year's a couple months back. It's what 500 years o' separation does, I suppose."

[fighter__pilot]

She nods. "So it's like a version of Fete Week. How big's the celebration?"

[bad_in_latin]

"I've never been to an Earth-that-Was version, but in my 'verse it's huge. Festivals that last for a week or more and so forth. Me and mine tend toward the celebrating only on the day of, but folk'll use any excuse for a shindig."

[gammagammahey]

Wow. First the totally METAL concert, and now a shiny bartending sign. Jen's getting to like Milliways.

"You shen me pi jiu?" Jen tries.

"Seu carregador está no fogo," she adds. Because she's fond of Portuguese.

[bad_in_latin]

"I...didn't quite catch that first one," Mal admits.

Beat. "And I got no ruttin' idea 'bout the second. Duibuqi."

[gammagammahey]

"You shen me pi jiu," Jen repeats, smiling. "I thought it meant 'what kind of beer do you have?' Got any Skrull pale ale?"

She also told him that his boot was on fire in Portuguese, but since it isn't, she'll let that one lie.

[bad_in_latin]

"Ah, I see. And shi a, think I do."

Lo and behold, a glass of the ale preferred appears before Jen.

"Sorry 'bout the mixup, with the Chinese. Sometimes it's hard to tell, with accents."

[nitro_is_ace]

Ace tilts her head at the sign, and then at Mal.

"Does Cap'n Mu Ji count?" She asks, hopefully. The only other thing she has is the line about the sons of motherless goats.

[bad_in_latin]

"The mu ji part does," Mal laughs. "Was wondering when someone'd try to use that one on me. What would you like?"

[nitro_is_ace]

"More chocolate alcohol please!" The bartender before Mal gave Ace quite a lot of chocolate alcohol.

One might consider it a minor miracle (or the result of a monstrous unintended problem with fatality) that she's not completely loopy at this point.

[bad_in_latin]

"Exactly how much choco-booze have you had today, Time Lady?" Mal asks incredulously.

[unwraith]

"Much as I'd like to, I don't speak Chinese." Not yet anyway. He considers the list. "Leap Year," he decides.

[bad_in_latin]

"...Good choice."

Mal shakes off the half-second pause at seeing Michael, and goes about making his drink.

"Do they have Chinese in your 'verse?"

[unwraith]

"I've never been to my 'verse's version of Earth. I believe they do, but I haven't had occasion yet to learn the language. Is it one many people use, there?"

[bad_in_latin]

"Yes -- it was one o' the biggest countries on Earth, if I remember correctly. The other common one was what we're speakin' now, though."