[ Chongyun notices the exclusion but doesn't feel any particular way about it—the Enma strikes him more as a military leader or a political figure or some such, while Tenkohime and Toraguma feel less ... official? Which may not necessarily be the case, but considering how most of the Department feels very much like public servants in Liyue, it just ended up that way. The neglect to mention makes sense, in that view.

No, instead his focus is definitely more on hotpot now that it's been brought up ... it's something he has to take a lot of care to eat. It has to be a non-spicy broth, and then he has to dip whatever he's boiled into ice water before eating it. A method he's thought much about, tested and tried with various outcomes, and now he's thinking about how delicious that is. ]

You're right. Do you think ... we could, perhaps, have an exchange of information over hotpot? [ priorities. ] It would put everyone in a good mood, wouldn't it?

[ What's more important here, the info or the food? It's probably obvious which with how his eyes brighten, ]

With ice cream as dessert ... ice cream and cake.