We arrived safely into Hong Kong, and then we hit the ground running.  We visited with both the faculty at Duchess of Kent Children's Hospital and the pediatric orthopedic surgeons at the Prince of Wales Hospital. Completing the day with a joint session that included the APPOS Visiting Professor Stuart Weinstein and POSNA member Ken Kuo.  After that latest round of academic exchange, we we were then treated to a traditional banquet dinner with roughly 9 courses (we admittedly lost count).  We agreed that the whelk (or sea conch) was perhaps our favorite dish, that the bird nest soup and the lion fish noodles were nice, but the duck tongue and sea cucumber were perhaps wasted on our Western palates (although most of us ate it).  In the end we were satisfied and appreciative of a lovely meal with our new friends.

The sea cucumber is on the bottom left juxtaposed by a shiitake mushroom and an abalone.

Today begins the APPOS combined meeting.  We will be engaged in a full day of free papers and lectures with plans to go to the 'peak' tonight, in order to catch a view of Victoria harbour and Hong Kong.