Anyway... About the pearls and the show...

There were two shows this year (as usual) with one near the airport at the AWE (Asia World Expo) and one on HK Island at the CSC. If you've never been to one of these, then you've never seen this many pearls in one place. This dwarfed the JCK in terms of pearls. Out of all the pavilions at the two shows, I spent all my time in just the pearl pavilions.

There were tons of FW pearls, with sizes up to aroud 15mm. Even after searching for 4 days, I did not find a single strand of FW pearls over 12mm that were gem quality, and almost nothing even that one could consider AA quality above 13mm.

Lots of Akoya, SS, and Tahitian as well, though there were more FW than all other types combined.