Paper Boat Lychee Ras, Litchi Juice, 150 ml

While the taste of lychee was hard not to love, peeling it was a total mood kill. Being the baby of the family we would get away with a lot of things and the lychee-peeling ceremony was one of them. Eating lychees while sitting around in our night suits post-dinner. Maa peeling at this tropical wonder with an extra fan (vintage, fished out from storage) pointed in our direction is how I shall forever remember childhood summers. The sweet, fleshy fruit still evokes that same sense of happy, lazy summer nostalgia in me. Thank God for juice though, no pleading about peeling is necessary!