Lychee, longan, and rambutan ... have long been popular in Asian cuisines. Each fruit consists of an outer rind or husk surrounding sweet white flesh with a seed at the center, but they do ...

Longan is a small round fruit with a translucent white flesh and a shiny black seed. Longan means "dragon's eye" in Chinese, and is named because it looks like an eyeball when shelled. Longan is ...

Longan flesh is best eaten raw in fruit salads, but can be very lightly simmered in a spiced lemon syrup and chilled to accompany ice cream or coconut rice pudding.