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 ...

It’s dawn, and Qin Shaofen is strolling among the 500 lychee trees at her family’s orchard on the outskirts of Guangzhou, capital of China’s southern Guangdong province. This year, the branches are ...

There was a time when William Tsui, co-owner and beverage director of Oakland’s Viridian, groaned at the thought of making a lychee martini. He shook up countless orders of the sweet, potent drinks ...