But it is also true that once the temperature comes down and the rains come, lychee or no lychee, there are no more cases.
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Philip: My flavor that reminds me of my childhood is the lychee, because lychee was quite expensive in the old days, and it was like a treat.
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They sell stuff from home — durian, rambutan and lychee.
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Muzaffarpur, Bihar, is the largest lychee farming region in India.
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Even the lychee seemed to be pulled from a can.
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Waldeck's choice of the name "lychee" is almost a given.
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Across the river lies a stream misleadingly named Lychee Bay.
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The 2017 viognier was slightly oaky and overflowing with lychee.
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It has delicious lychee ale, and is not very expensive.
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We have a green tea cone and lychee-flavored ice cream.
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The Lychee Sakura Float, on the other hand, was disgustingly saccharine.
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No one knew what was causing the acute brain disease—but the suspicious timing of the outbreaks implied it might have something to do with the lychee fruit, since Muzaffarpur is a popular lychee-growing region.
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They're lychee-sized fruit with a pulpy flesh on a large pit.
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Today we have wines that are closer to exotic products: lychee, pineapple.
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The couple grows lychee, bananas and papaya on their farm in Kapoho.
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We order a Diet Coke and a virgin lychee mojito to share.
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It contains honey and "dragon eye," a fruit that tastes like lychee.
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Bindi Irwin just introduced her boyfriend to one of her favorite things: lychee!
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The Muzaffarpur area, in India's east, produces about 70 percent of India's lychee harvest, and around the affected villages, "you really couldn't go 100 meters without bumping into a lychee orchard," Dr. Srikantiah said, referring to a distance of 330 feet.
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I order a snack-size dumpling and lychee boba (no sugar) for the road.
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However, most of the children who had fallen ill had eaten lychee fruit recently.
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This, coupled with our lychee martinis, is a perfect way to end the day.
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I love our dinner picnics and I'm so excited you had your first lychee!
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Honey produced in Paris tastes of red berries and lychee, Mr. de Campeau said.
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It was a caustic mix of bottom-shelf vodka and lychee puree from concentrate.
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There was this place downtown called Lychee Garden, and all the Jews congregated there.
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At the Frit café, I get Belgian French fries and a cranberry lychee soda.
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We suspect that there is some kind of role that lychee has in the case.
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Notes of cedarwood, white musk, rose, bergamot, and lychee will leave you smelling lovely too.
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Many other doctors and officials at the hospital are also skeptical about the lychee theory.
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I get a lychee-tini, miso soup, a spicy salmon roll, and a spicy tuna roll.
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Many disillusioned male followers then left the livestream and unsubscribed to her channel, Lychee News said.
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We all know them: the lychee sorbets, tropical fruit tarts, and matcha cheesecakes of the world.
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Experts have tried to narrow it to a virus, certain mosquito species and finally the lychee fruit.
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The dots were beginning to connect, but no study had yet linked lychee consumption to brain disease.
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Boba, or bubble tea, is a popular Taiwanese drink with flavors like taro, honeydew, mango, and lychee.
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Before the technical glitch, she had some 135,000 followers on Chinese livestreaming site Douyu, Lychee News said.
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Of course, the lychee soda has some super sweet syrup but I was intrigued to try it.
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According to the caption accompanying dolewhipdollies_'s photo, that eyeball is actually a cherry stuffed inside a lychee.
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"Naturally occurring toxins in the lychee fruit are associated with toxicity that led to this encephalopathy," she said.
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You may love sour apple or lychee flavors, but an elevated martini needs a classic backdrop to start.
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They had sold contracts for lychee and longan orchards and promised investors hefty returns, according to the report.
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It's a seed coating, and in the lychee, the ARIL is the fleshy, edible part of the fruit.
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You'll find flavors you're used to, like chocolate, and some that might seem a little more exotic, like lychee.
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During this session, Qiao Biluo had superimposed a cartoon on her face, Lychee News and the Global Times reported.
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The word "ironic" is repeated at the beginning of each story, and the voice of Lychee is deliberately garish.
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A chemical in the lychee causes a catastrophic fall in blood sugar, which is particularly dangerous among malnourished children.
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It's pastiche for the Upper East Side set, and it's enough to warrant another round of those lychee martinis.
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During their time spent together, Irwin also introduced her boyfriend to one of her favorite things in early January: lychee!
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When ackee is an enemy The unripe ackee contains the same poison as the lychee, known as hypoglycin, Srikantiah said.
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Kaushal Kishore, a state health department official, denied that the authorities had been amiss in not pursuing the lychee connection.
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So, in the scheme of things, plain vanilla may really be the more exotic flavor than, say, lychee ice cream.
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Today: a food editor who makes $353,343 per year, and spends some of her money this week on a lychee martini.
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It is lychee season and, as we walk, we break off branches of fruit and peel off the pink, spiky shells.
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In order to avoid having to say "Pearls of the Orient," I ordered a lychee martini — not exactly an original concoction.
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The Lychee and Dog Meat Festival launched in 2009 and involves the selling and killing of thousands of dogs for consumption.
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Both these areas have a real classic tropical feel, inspired both the "Lychee Beach" and "Noodle Cove" locations in Bird World.
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Yes, it's still funny.) Ultimately, Ilana's mom (Susie Essman) chokes on a lychee, and Trey has to come to the rescue.
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On a recent visit, a man selling lychee just outside the circle told me he had never heard of Aladdin City.
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The fatal diagnosis is acute encephalitis, a neurological disease caused by either a virus or environmental toxins connected to the lychee fruit.
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Inside the Kit Kat bar there's "Phoenix Oolong" tea leaves from the Guangdong Province of China, combined with lychee and rose petals.
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We love to go for a lychee margarita at the Polo Bar followed by dinner on the lawn of the Verandah Cafe.
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You are greeted in the grand lobby with a garland of flowers, pink lychee drink and a forehead dot of sandalwood paste.
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For dessert, there was an abstract "edible portrait," made up of mango, lychee, coconut, and raspberry macarons, set into a chocolate frame.
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A bunch of buzzy fruit extracts (including watermelon, plum, and lychee) join forces in this creamy mask geared to hydrate and brighten skin.
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"There are unanswered questions," she said, referring to the recent lychee-based epidemic in India and the chance of related clusters of disease.
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Whether it's a lychee hairband, curly bamboo shoot wig or blueberry wreath, Xiao Pi looks like it was born to model delicious headgear.
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Local tropical fruits lychee and longan, as well as Hong Kong honey, are some flavours being used by local brewers in craft beers.
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Herrine: Yeah, I feel like the reason why it is that way is because lychee is, like, already this very, like, delicate fruit.
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A chemical in the lychee caused hypoglycemia, a catastrophic fall in the child's blood sugar, when consumed on an empty stomach, they found.
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And what accounts for the deaths among children too young to eat fruit, or the ones that have occurred outside of lychee season?
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In the last year alone, he has helped rescue nearly 50 dogs from the Lychee and Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, Guangxi, China.
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Served in a martini glass, the cocktail combines oolong tea, lychee liqueur, and an oolong-infused vodka that's made fresh daily in-house.
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"It's Chandler's very first lychee," Irwin, who sat alongside Powell on the grass, said in an Instagram video as she peeled the fresh fruit.
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They're a bit like lychee and they get their name because when they're shelled, you can see the black seed through the pale flesh.
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Goldstone": "Have a lychee, Mr. Goldstone/ Tell me any little thing that I can do/ Ginger peachy, Mr. Goldstone/ Have a kumquat, have two!
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The plates now hold court behind the gleaming bar, where you can nurse an elderflower-spiked lychee martini and eye Marino's four original works.
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The property also has avocado, orange, lychee, banana and puakenikeni trees, and king and areca palms, as well as an attached two-car garage.
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Research papers and local officials point to the presence of lychee as a factor that may have significance in understanding the cause behind the outbreak.
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J. is making himself dinner, but after my enormous lunch, I only have room for a handful of baby carrots and a couple lychee jellies.
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The new shades include three glosses, named Lychee Me, Fudg'd, and Stain, that match her existing Chi, Kae, and Rooch Ultra Matte Lips and lipliners.
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You'll spot lychee and jojoba, which are known for their natural moisturizing abilities, as well as ginseng and willow bark, which exfoliate and fight acne.
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A search later in 2013 revealed that the lychee contained a chemical called MCPG (methylenecyclopropylglycine), which caused similar levels of low blood sugar in animals.
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Parents told the investigators that during lychee season, kids would eat the fruit in the nearby orchards all day and come home uninterested in dinner.
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But in the southern Chinese city of Yulin, some say eating dog meat and drinking lychee liquor on the summer solstice is an old tradition.
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One of these, a barbecue delivery service, offers Wagyu brisket, pork belly, and other meats super-slow-smoked over local hardwoods like lychee and tamarind.
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It's frozen into a granita and then spooned over burrata, lychee yogurt and candied walnuts for a cheese course you won't find anywhere but Atoboy.
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They met in 2014 in Ho Chi Minh City, where Mr. Lin, then working as a fruit importer, had come to scout lychee and longan.
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Another drink pairs lychee with house-made aloe vera jelly, in honor of her mother and her aunt, who used to drink the juice straight.
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According to PopSugar, the lychee flavor isn't exactly new, but thanks to a little thing called Instagram, the photogenic food is getting a new life online.
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The outbreak in India, and seemingly similar cases in Vietnam and Bangladesh, amount to a sort of perfect storm of malnourishment and a booming lychee industry.
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Others also accused Qiao Biluo of "conning men for their money" and calling her "grandma" in comments left on the livestream, as shown by Lychee News.
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"We all eat lychee around here," said Kamini Kumari, whose 3-year-old daughter Anupa fell sick with convulsions but recovered after days in the hospital.
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However, urine samples found that two-thirds of the ill children showed evidence of exposure to toxins in lychee seeds, found in higher levels in unripe fruits.
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Available for the past two summers, its pretty color and picture-perfect swirls are making the lychee soft serve a superstar when it comes to food photography.
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We end up with a feast — shu mai, har gow, chow fun, bean curd with minced pork, garlic green beans, lychee ice cream, and key lime pie.
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But she accidentally revealed herself as a middle-aged woman in a livestream last week when a technical glitch showed her real face, China's Lychee News reported.
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But if lychees are to blame, some ask, why are there no cases in other lychee-growing areas in India, or in other countries, for that matter?
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The menu, meanwhile, includes house cocktails like the Ping River (vodka, lychee, lemongrass and lime; 290 baht, or about $8.70), Thai craft beers and even Thai rosé.
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However, urine samples showed that two-thirds of the ill children showed evidence of exposure to toxins found in lychee seeds -- found in higher levels in unripe fruits.
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" The other fragrance is a fruity, floral scent — seemingly aimed at girls — and has scents of Osmanthus tea with lychee and patchouli, which Apel calls "innocent, sparkling, effervescent.
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Finally, the scientists found cases of a chemical called hypoglycin A that caused neurological symptoms in people who ate another fruit related to the lychee, the ackee fruit.
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A new report, published in The Lancet Global Health medical journal on Tuesday, claims to have discovered what's behind the devastating disease: the unassuming lychee, otherwise known as litchi.
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But just because American diners may be used to pink desserts being strawberry doesn't mean that's what dessert lovers are getting overseas: These pink cones are actually lychee-flavored.
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The scent itself, which is called Love Relentlessly, is sweet: The initial burst of rose, pink pepper, raspberry, lychee, and jasmine smells eerily similar to a bouquet of flowers.
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Two years ago, researchers declared the mystery solved, saying that the cause was the prized lychee fruit that grows around this area during the hottest months of the year.
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Two friends debated the subject over a steaming bowl of vegetarian bibimbap, but it wasn't until a round of lychee Martinis that they attained anything close to enlightenment. ♦
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The state health department has blamed hypoglycemia -- low blood sugar -- for the children's deaths but said that lychee fruit, which is widely grown in the region, also plays a role.
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The results, published in the journal The Lancet Global Health, are the largest investigation to date of the Muzaffarpur mystery, and they present strong evidence that lychee caused the outbreak.
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We ordered an impressive spread: a Pork Samurai Burger, McWings, Onigiri Shake Fries, a Lychee Sakura Float, a Hello Kitty chocolate sundae, a cheesy spinach pie, and a pineapple pie.
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Cost of a Samurai Burger, Onigiri Fries, and a Coke Zero: 285 baht, or $9Rating: 6.5/10 Standouts: Wings, pineapple pie, and toysAvoid: Spinach cheese pie and Lychee Sakura Float
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In China, all three of the most popular audio content apps — Ximalaya, Lychee and Dragonfly — include audio livestreams, covering topics ranging from politics and current events to relationships and parenting.
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Beginning in 1995, investigations variously ascribed the phenomenon to heat stroke; to infections carried by rats, bats or sand flies; or to pesticides used in the region's ubiquitous lychee orchards.
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The spikes of the lychee fruit -- also known as litchi -- may be a deterrent for some animals, but for humans willing to break it away, it's an exotic and tasty treat.
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Instead of rum, its mojito is made with sake and if someone is in the mood, a dash of passion fruit, pomegranate or lychee along with the usual mint and lime.
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A week later, a strange bird washes ashore by Lychee Beach, with no memory of her past, in front of a small house where the bird Leon lives with his mother.
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In seven episodes, Badbadtati (the voice of Tatiana Gecmen Waldeck's character) and her vagina, Lychee, satisfy their sexual appetites from Venice to Ibiza, from nightclub bathroom hookups to hotel room orgies.
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Twitter users have interpreted Pall's statement as being a reference to traditions surrounding the Lychee and Dog Meat festival (commonly referred to as the Yulin Dog Meat Festival) in China's Guangxi province.
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There have been hundreds of cases again — 22017 as of Monday, with 22018 deaths — all among poor children here in the Muzaffarpur lychee belt, in a heavily populated area of Bihar State.
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For one, Hermé has contributed to its permanent place in the pantheon of creative patisseries with flavors like his signature Ispahan (raspberry, lychee and rose water) and Mogador (milk chocolate, passion fruit).
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Lychee, mango, pineapple and dragon fruit may not be particularly exotic, but a dip or a dunk into a dark, spicy syrup of tamarind and palm sugar will wake them right up.
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For a less touristy alternative, upstart Ola Brew, opened in October 276, offers craft beers and creative ciders (like Dragonfruit Lychee and White Pineapple) in an airy tasting room favored by local clientele.
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"International experts have told us that lychee has some kind of toxin that goes and deposits in the liver of these children, and when the temperatures go up, those toxins get released," Kumar said.
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The star has been traveling in what appears to be a Southeast Asian country as she has been posting postcard-worthy pictures of local landmarks and exotic delicacies such as lychee and purple mangosteen.
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According to a recent report by animal rights group Animals Australia (AA), every year, seven times more dogs are killed in Bali than during the notorious Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival in China.
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While every vendor will make their ice kacang differently, you're probably going to get some combination of shaved ice, colorful fruity syrup, coconut or condensed milk, sweet corn, kidney beans, jelly cubes, and lychee.
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What in the World The annual Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, which will open this week coinciding with the summer solstice, has drawn domestic and international condemnation from people concerned with animal rights.
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A soaring space outfitted with plush couches and carpets, the establishment pours out numerous Provençal products, including Doucillon beer (10 euros) and Le Daviel cocktails (pastis, lychee liqueur, spice syrup and Champagne; 21 euros).
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After dinner at World Street Kitchen, I sampled quirky flavors like avocado lychee and Turkish coffee toffee at Milkjam Creamery — both businesses have cult followings and are run by a pair of Palestinian immigrants.
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Then I put on eye cream, face serum, sunscreen (Shiseido's Urban Environment Oil-Free UV Protector), and a few spritzes of the Fresh Sugar Lychee perfume (one of the few perfumes that I actually like).
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Here's the current cocktail and mocktail list:Financial District: Aylesbury Duck Vodka, raspberry, lychee, rhubarbThe Village: Spring 44 Gin, cucumber, basil, balsamic vinegar, peppercorn, mozzarella, garnishTheater District: El Silencio Mezcal, roasted sweet corn, peach, cholula, Tajín.
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Arun Shah, a Muzaffarpur pediatrician and one of the authors of an early scientific paper on the disease, said that scientists were still convinced by the lychee theory — even if saying so has become problematic.
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The same day that brings torrential rain to Bras Panon, where I lived on a lychee farm on the east coast, could mean 12 hours of uninterrupted sun for the citrus groves in the West.
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Clocking in at 4.2% ABV, their brew is of the golden ale variety, promising to carry "hints of citrus fruit and lychee, all balanced by a subtle bitterness," according to a statement from the manufacturers.
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Stop by his Mood Cafe in West Philly and you'll see a chalkboard with over 100 flavors, like pineapple, lychee, rose, "Salty Queen," and apple, as well as innovative chaats like Mexican and chicken salad chaat.
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Every year since 53, thousands of dogs have been killed and eaten over the course of ten days during the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, Guangxi, China—and not without significant international controversy.
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The vlogger, known as "Her Royal Highness Qiao Biluo" (乔碧罗殿下), was recording a livestream on July 25 when a technical glitch caused her beauty filter to vanish, China's Lychee News platform reported.
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The Taiwanese broadcaster Public Television Service (PTS) has previously warned that eating lychee, pineapple, and other fruits that are high in sugar could cause a false positive on a Breathalyzer—but only for a few minutes.
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The cacao beans (also called cocoa beans) are the seeds that grow inside the pod, surrounded by fleshy, juicy fruit that tastes a little like a mango crossed with a pear that was carrying a lychee.
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An international team of scientists reviewed both the literature and the 2014 outbreak, and found that chemicals in the lychee fruits themselves probably caused the illness—most frequently, in kids who had forgone dinner the night before.
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Throughout it all, Pam appears serene, adding a garnish to a blushing slab of King salmon cooked in a water bath to the consistency of custard, or spooning lychee granita into shot glasses for a palate-cleanser.
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" When I ask Jones about his most recent meat-based inspiration, he immediately mentions his vegan seafood towers, which revolves around things like lobster mushrooms, oyster mushrooms "casino," fresh hearts of palm "calamari," and a lychee "ceviche.
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Though social media campaigns have been successful in bringing the number of dogs killed (and typically served with lychee fruit) down from 10,000 to 1,000, the festival has continued to cause outcry from civilians and animal welfare groups alike.
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And, because it's a Halloween party, there were some super creative drinks, including a red cocktail in a low martini glass, accented with an eyeball created lychee fruit and a brandied cherry, smoking skull drinks, and shots inside of shots.
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According to the reports, anyone caught selling dog meat in the week leading up to the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, which starts on June 21, will face fines of up to 100,000 renminbi, or about $14,500, and possibly time in prison.
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The experimental Hong Kong spot specializes in Chinese interpretations of classic cocktails, using local ingredients and Asian infusions, such as oolong tea, lychee, and homemade ginger honey—and the concept was created by a bartender who learned most of his chops on Wikipedia.
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A celebration of the summer solstice, the Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival was at one time supported by the local government to boost the city's economy, but the government has since distanced itself from the festival due to the controversy surrounding the event.
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We spoke on the eve of the southern Chinese city of Yulin's Lychee and Dog Meat Festival, an annual 10-day celebration during which an estimated 10,000 cats and dogs are killed and eaten, and in the wake of the tragic shooting in Orlando.
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A local church donated a small Christmas tree, a family friend brought presents, and in the trailer's tiny kitchen, Hazel cooked curried goat, callaloo and the spicy sauté called ackee and saltfish (ackee is Jamaica's lychee-like national fruit) — dishes that required only one pot.
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In a study from 2019 in the journal Environmental Neurology, Spencer and his colleagues described several other foods that have toxins that can make people sick—like the fruit of the ackee tree, eaten in West Africa and Jamaica, and lychee fruit from South Asia.
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His four towering mango trees — along with three avocado, a sapodilla and 12 lychee trees by the driveway — were actually what drew Mr. Patel to this property four years ago, when he was still the chef de cuisine at Michael's Genuine Food & Drink in Miami.
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As a result of research sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control in the United States, published in the respected British medical journal The Lancet in 20173, the health authorities began to warn families to make sure that children did not eat lychee without a meal.
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It turns out that compared with kids who didn't suffer symptoms, the odds were 9.6 times greater that a stricken kid had eaten lychees, 6.0 times greater that the kid had visited a lychee orchard, and 2.2 times greater that the kid had missed dinner the night before.
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"I hate those boring tasting menus where you sit around for three hours," he says as the waiters deposit the first offering: a pair of hot-pink lips made of lychee gelée, perched on a Gaggan-branded box and all puckered up for their social media close-up.
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Representatives of the group, which is based in Washington, along with Chinese animal rights advocates, also delivered the petition on Friday to the Beijing office of the government of Yulin, where the Lychee and Dog Meat Festival has taken place on the summer solstice since 2010 amid mounting controversy.
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Desserts are crowd-pleasers: coconut ice cream armored in fried noodles, crunchy and creamy, earthy and sweet, or styled as a parade float, atop a Chinese bubble waffle speared with Pocky sticks and littered with Fruity Pebbles, lychee, candied fennel and spongy translucent palm seeds — ridiculous and delicious.
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Martha Stewart might be heading toward retirement, but Geraldine's Pastry Chef, Callie Speer, walked in with an army of pastry cooks, quickly and stealthfully commandeering an entire section of the restaurant to create a tablescape of inventive desserts: green tea cotton candy, lychee popcorn, and mushroom caramels to end the evening.
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Ms. Long's Shenzhen Yixianglong Investment Development Company focused on urban projects like garden design, street cleaning and waste disposal, and the company saw an opportunity in Hong'ao Village, on the outskirts of Shenzhen in the Guangming New District, where vegetable patches and lychee groves have retreated in recent years for factories and apartments.
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But if eaten too early, particularly by someone who missed their evening meal or by a child in a malnourished state, this seemingly sweet fruit can be toxic and sometimes fatal, as shown recently by a mystery illness that affected the town of Muzaffarpur in India -- the country's largest lychee-producing region.
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"The synergistic combination of (lychee) consumption, a missed evening meal, and other potential factors such as poor nutritional status, eating a greater number of litchis, and as yet unidentified genetic differences might be needed to produce this illness," the researchers said in their study, which was published in the Lancet in 2017.
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Ice cream is littered with crushed peanuts; condensed milk and coconut milk, velvet upon velvet; candied coconut and ginger, for a little fight with the teeth; wobbly aiyu (fig-seed) jelly and black grass jelly, one as sharp as lemon, the other close to medicine; and at the bottom, fleshy and floral, a whole lychee.
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A joint investigation by India's National Center for Disease Control and the India office of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, published in the British medical journal The Lancet Global Health on Tuesday, has identified a surprising culprit: the lychee fruit itself, when eaten on an empty stomach by malnourished children.
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W New York - Downtown will offer a nautical cocktail menu May 5 to 8; the drinks include the All Hands on Deck (tequila, Cointreau, Aperol, lime juice and simple syrup) and the Skipper Sour (bourbon, lychee and simple syrups, lemon juice and a basil leaf), are priced from $13 to $15 and are available from 5 p.m.
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In contrast, Art and China after 1989 features works created by Chinese artists that received backlash from a specific form of white neoliberalism that repeatedly prioritizes animals over people of color, from the hypocritical moral grandstanding against the yearly Lychee and Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, to, most recently, PETA's equating of "anti-animal" language to racist and homophobic hate speech.
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Mikawaya Mochi Ice Cream You don't even need to leave the comfort of your own home to enjoy Mochidoki's delectable little bites — just order them up online in a variety of 12 sweet, sweet flavors: Azuki Red Bean, Black Sesame, Frothy Chocolate, Ginger Zing, Lychee, Colada, Mandarin Orange Cream, Matcha Green Tea Chocolate Chip, Matcha Green Tea, Mochaccino Chip, Raspberry White Chocolate Crunch, Salted Caramel, and Vanilla Chocolate Chip.
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But that's not to say that they're just churning out sandwiches on a conveyer belt; all of the baguettes here are fresh-baked, and in addition to about a zillion and a half kinds of banh mi (the sardines banh mi is particularly intriguing and perplexing), you can also pick up lots of other Vietnamese delights here, from lychee desserts and red bean puddings to shrimp and yam egg rolls.
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Other cocktails include the Landslide (tequila, pineapple-infused rum, coconut rum cream, and chocolate); the Seven Wonders (pisco, blueberry jam, "color-changing butterfly flower chai"); the Black Magic Woman (activated charcoal, gin, and lychee liquor); the Songbird (rosé, Chareau, lime, soda); the Go Your Own Way (a "sour and salty tequila-based cocktail"—uh, probably a margarita); and the Gold Dust Woman (bourbon, honey, and ginger liqueur, with a gold candy rim). Rosé?
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