Breakfast at the Int'l Peace Hotel was rough for me. It was a buffet with a lot of what seemed like Dinner food to me. I kept having visions of the floating web foot from the night before and wasn't feeling very hungry. Coffee is not their thing either so I did not stay long in the dining room.
Around 8:30 we gathered in the lobby and walked over to the main office in Hefei to begin our business meeting. Our Chinese business partners had laid out quite the spread and even had an electronic sign in the lobby with a welcome meesage.
We met Mr G's boss (the branch head) and then Mr G spent a couple of hours giving an overview of the branch operations. They had attendants to constantly supply you with green tea which is big here. The also had fruit platters with one fruit I had never seen before --- something that they say is related to the lychee fruit. One of my American coworkers said you can develop some sort of lychee fever if you eat too many. Your insides burn and your nose will bleed. I sampled one anyway and found it to be like a cross between a grape and a plum with a hard pit inside the eyeball-like middle layer:
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