December 12

it's lychee season on Pentecost, we ate some a few days ago. It's not as popular as one might expect. In fact, we completely missed lychee season last year. It seems that some foods are designated as "kids foods" in these parts. Kid's foods aren't cultivated much, are not available to purchase at the local markets and are not used as part of the local 'kastom' economy (in that they are not given as gifts to friends with the expectation that the favor will be returned). Along with lychee some other 'kid's foods' include guava, tamarind, passionfruit and ice cream beans. I am sure there are more, but since they're kid's foods I am less likely to have encountered them.

Post Script – We later learned that there was no lychee season last year as there was heavy rains when the flowers were blooming, spoiling most all the blooms.