Random Observations from China: Oranges
They’re not orange.

This was a ripe (and pretty tasty) orange. I would have thought it needed a few weeks to ripen (or was actually a lime) but it turns out that oranges in China are often green. I guess that’s why the Chinese word for the fruit orange (รฆยฉห) is different than for the color orange (รฆยฉโข) although I just noticed that the two characters are pretty similar and both pronounced ju.
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