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    • ]]>     Chinese date’s are known as a warm food. (People believe that all kinds of food have characteristics -warm or cold, in oriental culture.) So it makes you relax and warms you up (good for insomnia and cold body sense) . It is often used with ginseng as a roborant (a strengthening food) for example in Ginseng tea or samgyetang – Korean chicken soup.

    This is a picture of dried Chinese dates I bought the other day.

    Chinese Dates

    I found a good description about Chinese dates from Wikipedia. So you can read more about them.

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