New fruit

Today Nhung brought us a bowl full of these Vietnamese fruit that we had never eaten before. They are called Longan (pronounced lon-heen) which means "dragon's eye". This fruit is popular throughout Asia and is from the same family as the Lychee. It tastes a bit like an apple with flowers. Unusual and hard to describe. But very sweet and fun to eat because it is slimy like an eyeball.

Picture to the left in its various stages of being eaten. The outer shell and the pit are not eaten.