How to Eat Lychee | What Does Lichi Taste Like
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- Опубліковано 12 лют 2021
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In this episode of In The Kitchen With Matt, I will show you how to eat lychee fruit. What does lychee or lichi taste like? I also do a taste test. I love lychee, I ate them quite a bit several years ago when I lived in the Philippines. They are super easy to eat, and taste amazing. I love showcasing interesting and different fruits here on my channel once in awhile, and lychee definitely fit that description.
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I'm from the UK and just saw them in my local supermarket and thought I'd try them. Only clicked this video because I didn't know how to eat them. Gotta say, really tasty
Awesome, JT. Glad you tried it and liked it! And thanks for watching the video.
Omg have just done exactly the same thing Hha
Princess Diana was known to snack on them often
Like watermelon and beer, lychee must be eaten chilled!
Same here only ever had some when I've had a Chinese meal...So easy to peel,it.has a beautiful flavour.Thank you for your vid.
These are delectable. I've been getting them from a small greengrocer the past few weeks. I decided to drastically cut down my consumption of cakes, chocolate etc. Who needs them with a fruit this delicious. Thanks for the video.
You are welcome! Yeah they are so yummy!
Lychee to me, tastes like pure sunshine and happiness. The high note is so hard to describe. Takes me back to east Asia. I think this is my favorite food besides cherries.
Agreed!! So yummy and the taste/flavor is a bit difficult to describe, it taste like a lychee! haha
I live in Florida and have 2 Lychee trees. I love the taste but the season is very short. During May the fruit is growing and then, all of a sudden there are huge numbers turning bright red and ready for harvest the first week in June. Depending on the part of the tree, the fruit will be ready over the next 10 days or so, and then its over. You have to catch picking them at just the right time - too early and the fruit is a little sharp with big pits - too late and they are over ripe. When you get them just right, they are wonderful. The best ones have shriveled pits with lots of fruit. Over ~ a two week period you go from having an overwhelming amount to none at all. They can be frozen, so that it a good way to extend enjoying this fruit.
Yeah they are awesome! So good!
Our family had lychee trees on our property in HI. We would look forward to picking them when they were reddish brown and in a large bunch. The biggest bunches tend to be closer to the top of the tree, so a few close calls climbing as kids. As the tree gets old, it gets less fruit until it doesn’t anymore. Other tropical fruit trees we enjoyed were star fruits and mountain-apples. 👍🏽
That is awesome, Craig!! I did a star fruit video too as well. I love star fruit! ua-cam.com/video/sMv0kM6jMNU/v-deo.html
Oooooh
What are mountain apples
Love star fruit too ❤
Thank you so much for sharing this
Morrisons were selling a small pack for £1.99 in Scotland so decided to buy them. Had no idea what to do with em so thank you for the demonstration! ♥
Awesome! Glad you got to try them! And you are very welcome :)
Thankyou Matt I'm 62 you have taught me something New!
You are very welcome, Susan! :) :)
I've first heard of them when I was reading a book, then the next day found them in my supermarket.
I had to Google them before I bought any, now I'm curious so going to buy one and see if I like them.
You make them sound so good.
Cool!
Live in FL just found these at a new grocery store they are so good. Really refreshing. When you said they grow in FL I started collecting the seed. Lychee tree is hopefully in my future
Awesome!! I am jealous, there are so many tropicals/exotic fruits you can grow in Florida. :) :) Have fun!
Thank you so much ❤❤😊
Can’t wait to try them! Thanks for the video!
Awesome!! You are welcome!!
I love lichis, in my country you can get a kg for 4 euros, but they only have them in stores for like one month per year. So each year there's a time when my family eats these like crazy.
Awesome! :)
Just bought some from the store. We had never heard of them and decided to try them
Thank you for your video, it was very helpful.😊
Glad you bought some to try! You are very welcome and glad you found the video helpful.
I had eaten lychee in the past also had Lychee martine. I love the taste. But I had never seen one with the peel on before. I saw the in CostCo today and purchase a pacge. I had to get onto your page to see how to peel them. Thanks for show and tell.
Awesome! :)
Can't stop eating them huh?🤣😂 they're very addictive and delicious
Indeed!
I live in Danbury, Ct. I bought them at Stop and Shop. I ate one and love the taste. It tastes sweet and fruity like a grape.....😋😋😋😋
Awesome!! Glad you found them where you live.
Lychee is wonderful!! Just bought some and absolutely love the flavor. My 2 year old granddaughter loves to peel and eat them as well! Try them!
Yes so yummy!
Mmmmm yum yum. We grow them all over in South Africa. They are delicious. Thanks Matt
You are welcome! :) So delicous!
Yes, I think a lot of people don't know that because they are an Asian fruit. But imported to Africa and grown there, and so good! That's where my lychee fruit juice comes from. Thank you, South Africa, from the states. 😁
Yess
Sometimes I’ve seen them sold green usually and some of red but it’s because they pick them unripe from the tree but then they just turn red or even brownish color. The green ones don’t taste very good but the red ones are definitely the best
Yep I have seen them sold green as well.
My friend from the Philippines told me he ate it so I thought I'd look up what it was!
Awesome!
Lovely fruit I enjoyed it with you as I had bought some at the store...
Awesome!
Their at costco right now.I just had one, wow, it is really good.
Awesome! Glad you were able to try them and found them at Costco.
Lichi’s are so delicious they are one of my most favorite fruits
Indeed! So delicious!
I got them from school and didn’t know how to eat them so I watched this love the taste
Awesome, glad you got to try them and like them!
❤❤
My favourite fruit,after mango, for summer.
Awesome! Mangos are one of my favorite fruits too.
Excellent fruit❤
Indeed!! One of my favorites.
Im gonna try these thnkx
You are welcome!
If you can have either lychee or longan as your only tropical fruit, which one would you choose? And why? I have only had them in cans. Will have to try them fresh after watching your videos.
I like lychees more than longan, they taste similar, but the lychee just tastes a little better to me. You will just have to try and find them ripe and experience them for yourself, haha, they are both yummy. :)
5:01 I totally feel you.
Sipping on some lychee juice right now from Natural Grocers. The fruits themselves are hard to find in the US
Awesome! I can usually find them in season at the local Asian Market, but other than that, I haven't seen them anywhere else.
They can definitely be a little hard to find if your city doesn’t have a significant Chinese community.
That being said, lychees are becoming more and more popular in the US and I’ve seen them crop up in my local Costco (albeit the quality is a little hit-and-miss)
There are many kinds of Lychees (over 10 kinds). The taste and price difference of different kinds can be huge. You can come to Hong Kong and go to Mongkok market to buy some available kinds to see the differences. Lychee is very cheap in HK.
When you have tasted all kinds of Lychees available in the HK market, you will know why the prices are hugely different. Then you will not buy the cheap one (should learn to recognise the appearances and names of different kinds).
I just read some interesting posts in a Chinese forum these 2 days. People in non-Lychee planting areas are discussing how to distinguish the Lychee types and what the tastes are.
Yes there are many varieties of lychee, Bengal, Ha-Kip, Kaimana, Erdon Lee, etc to name a few.
I was watching your video while I was eating lychees😄 never tried before. It’s delicious, tasty, and it has lots of juice in there. Tastes like grapes but much better. 😊
Awesome! Glad you gave them a try and liked them!
Just had fresh lychee for the first time. Bought it from my local Asian supermarket. Before you said what they taste like I thought to myself, this tastes just like a grape! 😂 So when you said it tastes like grape too it made me very happy 😂
lol awesome! Glad you got to try it!
I love those!! So sweet and delicious😁
Agreed!!
I need to find those NOW
Try an International Market or Asian Market if you have one fairly close to you.
Love them!!
Same! So good!
They look so yummy, I will keep an eye out for them in the markets. I'm in California, so I'm sure that I will find some. Thankyou
Awesome! yeah, I am sure you will be able to find them in Cali, especially in an Asian market there. :)
I just bought some at an Asian market here on Omaha Nebraska. They are all slimmy. Are they bad?
slimy on the outside?
Gotta find these
They are delicious! If you live in the States, and are near a big city, chances are they have an international supermarket, and you should be able to find them there when in season.
Delicious ❤
Yes! So delicious!
As you were speaking i ate 3 or 4 of them < and I love the taste ! To me its more of a Pear taste and grape texture !
Awesome!
Ok u had my mouth watering 😆I kud taste it I swear
hahaha awesome!
Matt I love this video
Love your enthusiasm for
Interesting fruits ❤😍🫶🏻
Reminds me of a grape
& have been eating lychee since I’m a kid
( from Ohio ) mark pi
Had these on his buffet in columbus ❤😂🎉
Thank you!! Glad you have tried them and like them!!
I saw them in Trader Joe’s yesterday, and I guess I was being adventurous because I have never heard of them before or at least never seen them in person. I am so glad that I looked it up and came across your video because I would of eaten it like a strawberry 😖 Even though it literally states how to eat them on the carton 🤦🏻♀️
Glad you found some to try!! :) How do you like them?
@@inthekitchenwithmatt Delicious! My only semi complaint is that they are messy. I had to peel them over the sink, and even then I got the juice all over me. Which wasn’t too bad, since they were so good.
@@ceecee824 Glad you liked them! Yeah they can be a little messy at times.
My favourite fruit
It's delicious for sure!
They are also called sweetheart fruit
Not to be confused with sweetheart cherries though, because those are different. :)
If I buy the lychees fresh in the Asian grocery store, how do I tell that they are ripe?
Most lychees are ripe when they are pink or reddish. Once picked they won't continue to ripen, so most of the times the lychees you find at the Asian grocery store will all be fairly ripe and ready to eat.
i did not take test about lichi .someone help to me lichi buy
❤ this fruit
Same!
Did not know you lived in the Philippines, do you have Philippine cooking recipes on your channel?
Yeah it was several years ago for a couple of years, from 1997 to 1999. I used to cook pork adobe all the time. But it has been at least 15 years since the last time I made it, lol. I need to put a few of those recipes on here.
I'm vaping some lychee mango rn
Delicious
Nice!
I just saw these in Aldi today never seen them before but I don't know about trying new things I'm a bit weird 😅 😳
Try them!
Pretty good
Glad you tried it.
in china they are like $2 per kilo in summer when they become ripe in massive scale and enter the market😂 so tasty and cheap I can eat one kilo every day. Froze it and you can get the best ice cream ever👍 lychee can adapt to different environments and is relatively easy to grow, but its taste is supreme. definitely our national treasure
Such a great fruit!!
Nice vidio😊
Thanks!
Lychee is my favourite fruit
Awesome!
I ate my bowl of lychee while watching this video hehe
Lol awesome!!
1:22 I would definitely buy all of those boxes of lychees if it’s worth the money!
lol
Lycee , rambutan,longan all amazing fruits
Yes!! So good! I have videos for all of them haha
My favorate is grapefruit
Grapefruit is yummy!
I love the Lychee flavored ginger chews. Made by Prince Of Peace if interested in checking them out.
Will have to try them some time!
I bought the lychee fruit From my local Costco store I found them very good I've seen a woman with some in her shopping cart so I decided to buy me some Very delight delightful I love you
Awesome that you found it at Costco! They are very tasty!
just found them at Costco
I had them in HI. My wife's aunt almost went to jail trying to send us some without going through customs.
Glad you tried them, sorry to hear about your aunt! Good thing she didn't actually have to go to jail because of it.
I really enjoyed your video about lychee. I love lychee and it's a very sweet fruit and very yummy and I love the fruit.
From, Asher (age 6)
Thanks! Yeah Lychees are great!
A can of juice came with my meal, but none of the writing was in English, so I took the one with an apple on it…turns out it’s not an apple and I have no idea what it will taste like
You will just have to taste it and see!
It tastes like…generic fruit juice.
Sort of like pear but not quite.
10/10
@@liannapfister8255 Cool!
Having some canned ones now for the first time. They're delicious but I really want to try some fresh ones now. I'll have to wait until next time I'm in the city. Thanks for the great review!
Thank you! I actually have never tried the canned ones, I always get them fresh when in season. Which is pretty much now until the end of summer. At least that is when I see them the most stocked in the International markets.
They are wonderful fresh! Got to try them for the first time today and was pleasantly surprised and how tasty they were. Almost like and apple pear grape mixed its wonderful.
@@kevinmomochi7699 Awesome, glad you got to taste them fresh!
Walmart in Port Charlotte Fl.
Nice! It makes sense that they would have them in normal supermarkets in Florida, they grow a lot of these there. I can only ever find them at my Asian market. You are lucky!!
When are they ripe?
They are ripe when their skin turns pinkish or reddish. Once picked they do not continue to ripe so they are usually picked when ripe.
Tips: Eating too many lychees can easily lead to "Shang Huo". Shang Huo' is a term from Traditional Chinese Medicine, often used to describe a series of symptoms in the human body caused by certain factors, such as dry mouth and throat, sore throat, and so on. 🤣
Good thing I only eat three or four at a time, haha.
I have ate lyche it’s so good
So good!
I’m watching this while eating lychee and longan
Awesome!! I have a longan video too!
Have a beer ipa with this lychee in it never herd of it its a ipa with mango . Passionfruit. White grape and lychee
Cool!
Can you grow lychee in a grow tent
Yeah, I don't see why not. Grow tents created a nice micro environment. It still depends on where you live. If it is too cold there, you would need heaters inside the grow tent or greenhouse.
Thanks man I’m really debating on it
@@18KGCHAMP You are welcome!!
Like the suffering expression as you taste the fruit.
I guess its because you realise the Moment will be over soon.
Umm suffering? haha not all all this fruit is amazing.
Sam's club just got them in Columbia South Carolina
$6.40
Nice! I am glad to see more stores starting to carry exotic/tropical fruits instead of always having to travel to an International market which may be much further away.
I see so many positive comments but I bought a bunch of these and every one is bitter. They have the color shown and since they don't ripen there is nothing I can do but throw them out. Out of twenty or so, I got one good one. The fruit in the bitter ones don't release from the stone.
Probably just a bad batch. I have eaten so many of these, and haven't ever gotten any bitter ones.
The movie "We Need To Talk About Kevin," brought me here 😂.
hahaha cool!!
in my place in kolkata i bought it for 1 kg for 60 rupees
Nice!
I ment you are looking sufferig, bacause you know it will be over soon.
But maybe not
Thank you for the Video, I ate a lot of lyches after knowing how to peel them
You are welcome! Yeah, lychees are awesome.
They almost taste like roses.
Yes!
How do you know what roses taste like
I think it is also called rambutan.
Nope, rambutan is different, but in the same family. This video is of a rambutan ua-cam.com/video/EYj1vvYmzi0/v-deo.html
basically super grape
pretty much! haha
Not to mention that these nuts make Lemurs go Hell Crazy.
hahaha
Omg!!! I payed 5.99 for each one at my supermarket! So overpriced! I had no idea they could be that cheap…
So overpriced indeed!! Try going to your local Asian/International supermarket and see if they have lychee there, if you have a market like that near you.
I love lychee
Same with me!
How about Lanzones
Lanzones are so yummy, can't find them here, or at least I haven't seen them yet at the Asian market.
I love lychee!
Same with me!
My mom got lychees a few days ago and i ate 1. 1 then 7 then 15 then the whole bag XD
Glad you got to try it!
I got a pack of lychees at Costco
Awesome!
Hi
Hello!
@@inthekitchenwithmatt :)
@@SanjayJohnKing :)
Is it sweet? Tarty? Or what?
It is sweet with floral notes
I had so much fun watching you eat this. You take a bite and this fake smile would come over your face and your eyes would light up…I was laughing out loud 💕😁
Ok. But no, the smile wasn't fake.
Jelly of lychee
Yes that is the part you eat the white "jelly" around the pit/seed. So good!
Good morning you look young boo yeeeeee.
It's night for me
Oof xD
Morning!
@@inthekitchenwithmatt How are you doing today?
@@bodypositiveimage I am well, thanks! How about you?
Lychee>Strawberry
I still like strawberries better, but lychees are awesome!
i'm here because I wanna know how to take the wooden peel off easily.
Just use your finger nails like I show in the video.
Like if you just picked up some Lychees from Aldi for 69p in the special buy 😄
Nice!
I had for the first time yesterday it reminds me like eating old woman perfume. Not a fan
hahaha yeah I can see that. That hint of rose taste is probably what does it.
I never Hurd of it.
Now you have!
it tastes like perfume to me , it's Different
Definitely different, but tasty!
I just tasted it it tastes like a damn grape 😑
It kinda tastes like laundry detergent 💀
huh? You have tasted laundry detergent? lol, if not how would you know if it compares or not.
@@inthekitchenwithmatt I have drank laundry detergent as a kid and surprisingly Gain tastes very similar
@@Grass-seedling haha