So longans are these grape-sized fruits with a leathery skin and a good-sized pit (the title should link to a Wikipedia page). The fruit is translucent, and tastes somewhat like a grape, but not as sweet and the flesh is firmer. Quite fun!
17 August 2008
Fruit of the day: Longans
So we headed down to Paddy's Market today, which is this huge market with fresh produce and almost anything else you could possibly imagine. We bought a bunch of fresh fruit and veggies (and some shrimp and pork chops), but so far we've only tried one (we need to remember to look up the other ones so we know how to eat them...).
So longans are these grape-sized fruits with a leathery skin and a good-sized pit (the title should link to a Wikipedia page). The fruit is translucent, and tastes somewhat like a grape, but not as sweet and the flesh is firmer. Quite fun!
So longans are these grape-sized fruits with a leathery skin and a good-sized pit (the title should link to a Wikipedia page). The fruit is translucent, and tastes somewhat like a grape, but not as sweet and the flesh is firmer. Quite fun!
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That is Long Yan (meaning Dragon Eye) in Chinese. I had a lot of it when I was in China. Since it is a tropical fruit, we usually buy dried Longan and cook it in rice or fruit soup. Yammy!
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