how to get sweet mandarin oranges
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This year is no different. I’m on a quest for plump, sweet mandarin oranges to use as gifts when I visit friends and family during Chinese New Year.
As usual, I’m pacing up and down, looking at all the different types and scratching my head, torn between this and that and the others.
Apparently mandarin oranges start out sour because they’re harvested for shipping before they’ve had a chance to ripen naturally on the trees.
So what you need to do when you get home is to remove the individually-wrapped plastic bag off each mandarin, and leave it for about a week to ripen.
After it’s been allowed to ripen, you can then repackage the mandarins into the original plastic bags to be given away as gifts. That way, I will always be giving away sweet mandarins.
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