Saturday, July 14, 2007

Lychees...

Lychees are unique to East and Southeast Asia - I'm sure that most everyone has had lychee in some form or another at this point.

Lychees are often sold canned in Asian supermarkets, and those little gelatins packets are often lychee flavor (similar in size to the individual containers of liquid half and half for your coffee...you know, the ones that caused a huge scandal because little kids were choking on them?).

June is lychee season in Bangladesh - I ate so much I got sick of them...but these lychees were delicious!! (I've eaten an entire bunch like the one pictured below in one session!) Lychee to me is a quintessential flavor of childhood - it was one of my favorite fruit and candy flavors growing up.

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