idunnololz@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 months agoI bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1292arrow-down18
arrow-up1284arrow-down1imageI bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean?lemmy.worldidunnololz@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square119fedilink
minus-squareZammy95@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·edit-23 months agoIt’s Japanese not Mandarin too. I see うなぎ - unagi, which is definitely Hiragana Edit: Now that I think about it though, Unagi is written in katakana I think? ウナギ, so maybe it is Chinese and they just poorly tried to translate
minus-squareAatube@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-23 months agoIt’s not a loan word so it’s written in Hiragana. That said, OP’s screenshot has some culinary instructions written in Traditional Cantonese (so probably Macau), so I think it’s Chinese.
minus-squareZammy95@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoAh, fair! I only very recently started learning some Japanese, so beyond hiragana and katakana, I recognize basically nothing. I absolutely wouldn’t be able to recognize the others as Cantonese!
It’s Japanese not Mandarin too. I see うなぎ - unagi, which is definitely Hiragana
Edit: Now that I think about it though, Unagi is written in katakana I think? ウナギ, so maybe it is Chinese and they just poorly tried to translate
It’s not a loan word so it’s written in Hiragana.
That said, OP’s screenshot has some culinary instructions written in Traditional Cantonese (so probably Macau), so I think it’s Chinese.
Ah, fair! I only very recently started learning some Japanese, so beyond hiragana and katakana, I recognize basically nothing. I absolutely wouldn’t be able to recognize the others as Cantonese!