I love fruit, especially sweet fruits, so you can imagine my delight when mother came home with lychees! Fresh ones (or rather, imported ones that weren’t canned) taste a lot better than canned lychees, though they are a bit less sweet and a bit more bitter. The last part is most likely because fresh lychees still have their pits and canned lychees usually have added sugar to make them even sweeter.
Lychees, like any other fruit, are messy when you have to peel them. They’re sticky but also very juicy which makes peeling them a fingerlicking job.
(below) One before and one after peeling.
I love the fact that underneath that rough and semi-hard skin lies a soft and sweet fruit. Mmm, off to get more lychees now.
