The first item (shown below, a special size)
>Foie gras & shark fin pork siu-mai
Obviously they shortened the name of this dish. Let's try our best to decipher the characters, and relate them to words used in the rest of the East Asian cultural powerhouses, the future center of the universe.
-goose (Mandarin - e, Cantonese - ngo, Korean - a/geowi, Japanese - ga/gacho)
-liver (Mandarin - gan, Cantonese - gon, Korean - gan, Japanese - kan)
-soy paste (Mandarin - jiang, Cantonese - jeung, Korean - jang, Japanese - sho)
-fish (Mandarin - yu, Cantonese - yu, Korean - eo, Japanese - gyo/sakana)
-wing (Mandarin - chi, Cantonese - chi, Korean - shi, Japanese - shi/hane)
-to sell (Mandarin - mai, Cantonese - maai, Korean - mae, Japanese - bai)
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