For chef Mark Noguchi, born and raised in Oahu, Hawaii, lychee signals the start of summer. "Once you start to see the lychee come out, you know summer is here," he said of the fruit, which he ...

Lychees with rough red skin, with two lychees half-peeled showing the glassy white flesh underneath, - Melindachan/Getty Images Fruit can be a real puzzle. Some seeds are edible, some must be removed, ...

So, how do you eat a lychee, anyway? Don’t let these small, spiky spheres scare you or worse — prompt you to buy a syrupy, canned version of the fruit. As a friend recently explained to me, they are ...

The drink: Vodka, sake, lychee syrup. Lychee is not everyone's jam, which I get, but I always appreciate the change of pace. It's sort of like grape juice, but...milkier? It melds well with the sake, ...

Peeling the textured husk off a punnet of lychees can be a frustrating task. Do it wrong and the peel will come off in annoying little bits or stick stubbornly to the flesh, causing you to damage the ...