Someone gave my husband a coupon for a box of kiwis, as a gift. This is a thing in China- giving a big box of fruit as a gift. If you got to someone's house, you should bring a gift, like a nice big box of fruit. Chinese people like fruit. My kids are Chinese and they eat fruit all the time.
Anyway, we had this coupon for a free box of kiwis, so we filled in our information on the fruit company's app and they sent it in the mail.
Here it is!
Behold, the kiwis!
When I first came to China and saw gift boxes like this, it struck me as really weird. I guess this particular kiwi box isn't super fancy, pretty much a regular grocery-store fruit box- but sometimes these boxes are really nice, red, for gifting. Fresh fruit- something that you have to eat fast because it will go bad- seemed to not really be the right thing to put in a many-layers-of-nice-packaging gift box. (Like, we immediately put all these kiwis in the fridge and threw away the box.) But somehow this is a really common thing.
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