Dragon’s Eye or Longan is a small, round, sweet, and watery fruit that is very similar to lychee fruit. It has a yellowish-brown thick shell, also known as a pericarp, which hardens as it ages.

When it‘s young and fresh, you can peel the pericarp off to get a translucent, white, watery pulp embedding a big black seed. You need to separate the seed to eat it. The longan (from Cantonese lùhng-ngáahn 龍眼, literally ‘dragon eye’), is so named because it resembles an eyeball when its fruit is shelled (the black seed shows through the translucent flesh like a pupil and iris).

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