Also known as litchee or alligator strawberry, lychee is often used to garnish sweet cocktails—but the tropical fruit can do ...

Lychee has a unique, floral taste with a range of culinary applications. You want the best, so here's what to look for at the store to pick the freshest lychee.

When ripe, lychee can be peeled — sort of like an orange — and eaten right off the tree. Once peeled, the entire fruit will appear white and circular and features a small, dark-colored pit.

My own exposure to lychee was limited in my childhood to the canned kind, and I remember it being a very sticky, sweet dessert, usually served by my grandmother's friend Malcolm, ...

A:Lychee, Litchi chinensis, is regarded by some as a fruit of the gods. The dense tropical plant has smooth, gray bark and produces handsome greenish-yellow blooms and oval to round 2-inch fruit ...

For many Jamaicans, lychee cake is the taste of celebration. Its origin tells the history of Chinese immigration to the Caribbean island. Tiffany Alecia Lue-Yen for The New York Times ...

TOKYO -- The smell of freshly picked lychee fills the streets of Hanoi each June, when the tropical fruit is in season. ... Asian taste for salmon spurs land-based farms, exciting investors.