I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean?

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It's Japanese not Mandarin too. I see うなぎ - unagi, which is definitely Hiragana

Edit: Now that I think about it though, Unagi is written in katakana I think? ウナギ, so maybe it is Chinese and they just poorly tried to translate

It's not a loan word so it's written in Hiragana.

That said, OP's screenshot has some culinary instructions written in Traditional Cantonese (so probably Macau), so I think it's Chinese.

Ah, fair! I only very recently started learning some Japanese, so beyond hiragana and katakana, I recognize basically nothing. I absolutely wouldn't be able to recognize the others as Cantonese!