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["Hal Love" <lovehd@comcast.net>]

Another Chinese co-worker just looked up the last character on the first
label. It means "jujube".

Hal



> Mark,
>
> I asked a Chinese co-worker to help translate your labels. For the "Dried
> Date" label, the first two characters identify a provence in southern
China,
> the third means "Honey" and the last is a type of fruit that she has never
> seen in the US, but she does not know the english name for it.
>
> The second label translates to: "The perfect fruit from Hong Kong".
>
> Sorry, that did not help much.
>
> Hal
>
>
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> ****
>
> I recently purchased some fruit at an Asian grocery store.  I am not
> sure what I have, so I scanned the labels and posted them at the page
> linked below:
> http://mysite.verizon.net/~piper33/Chinese.html
>
> One looks like jujube and has no English on the package.  The other says
> "dried date", but the picture on the package looks more like plum fruit
> and leaves and the fruit in the package looks like chunks of wood.  I
> would be interested in hearing from any NAFEX people or their Chinese
> speaking friends with any clues on what I have.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Lee, Seattle
>
>