The funny thing is that I like the luscious lychee fruit more than its sedate cousin the longan dragon eye fruit. But, turn that around when it comes to these fruits in dried form, cuz I love, love, love dried longan fruit more than anything!
The fresh longan fruit, a small berry like fruit with a hard shell encasing a translucent sweet white flesh, is delicious and all that but, man oh man, when it is dried it becomes so sinfully sweet, in a natural way, deliciously chewy and just so absolutely yummilicious that it is better than candy!
Yes, that's right, Oven Dried Longan 龍眼乾 is even better than candy (except chocolate of course) and that's how we eat them in our house, as a naturally deliciously sweet and healthy fruit candy.