dialogue: #Person1#: Good evening, Pete. I trust you had a nice siesta. 
  #Person2#: Yes. It was just what the doctor ordered. 
  #Person1#: I'd like you to meet Henry Johnson. Mr. Johnson has been working at our Beijing office for over a year now. I think you two are from the same city. 
  #Person2#: Hey there, Henry. Call me Pete. A New Yorker, eh? 
  #Person3#: Born and raised in Brooklyn. Good to meet you, Pete. 
  #Person2#: Brooklyn. . . that's a great neighborhood. I'm originally from Queens but moved down to Manhattan a while back. So. . . you're an expat in China. . . how's life over here working out for you? 
  #Person3#: You know - I really love it. There are frustrations of course, such as traffic, pollution and the language barrier, but all in all, I give China a big thumbs up. 
  #Person1#: Before you two get carried away in conversation, let's finalize our plans for the evening. I was thinking of dining at a well-known dumpling restaurant and then hitting a Karaoke bar for some fun! 
  #Person2#: Everything sounded good until I heard the word 'Karaoke'. If there's one thing you don't want to hear, it's me singing. 
  #Person3#: I sound like a frog that's suffering from a bad cold! But Karaoke is so popular in Asia that I've been dragged to at least two dozen of them so far. I've even learned a Chinese song or two. 
  #Person1#: Hey. . . no Karaoke. . . no problem! We're here to have fun and if singing isn't fun. . . then forget it! I assume you like beer. 
  #Person2#: Beer is quite possibly my very favorite liquid. 
  #Person3#: Chinese beer is actually pretty good. I've sampled all of them so I should know! 
  #Person1#: Great! So we'll have dinner and then we'll go down to the bar district. In Beijing there are literally thousands of bars. 
  #Person2#: Sounds like a plan. 
summary: #Person1# introduces Henry Johnson to Pete for they come from the same city and the latter two exchange ideas about Beijing, Karaoke particularly. The three decide to go have dinner and then to a bar district.
topic: social meeting