Lee and I did a favor for our coordinator to review a research paper for a scientist here in Guangzhou. The paper dealt with immune therapy for colorectal cancer so it was interesting and similar to what I have been studying over the last year.
Anyway, the researcher to show his appreciation took Lee and I by van to a restaurant just outside the city for traditional rural Cantonese food. I haven't spent too much time detailing it, but I love the way groups eat in China. The food is ordered ala carte and brought out staggered and placed on a glass circle in the middle of the table. The glass rotates so we have easy access to the food items. This includes a chicken (with head and feet attached), some fish (a whole fish laying on a plate), some of the biggest oysters I've ever seen, fried tofu, and some other things. It was great.
The scientist's name is Benquiang, and he was quite a character. He did a brief fellowship at Yale in immunology. Furthermore, he was in the Chinese military and apparently rescued the president of Liberia some years ago with 2 comrades, both of whom were KIA. Or maybe captured him? Ill have to find out the specifics in a future correspondence.
Anyway, Lees friends from Purdue, Mike and Adam, arrived this morning. We are going to spend the weekend in Guangzhou and then go to Shanghai on Sunday.
Cheers,
Nick
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