Corners of Chinese social media are awash with tales of the lychee season, in which we find ourselves. The main topic of corncern is the pointess if friendly argument as to which cultivar of the hundreds out there is the best. And how to recognise them.
Earlier, I was talking with a friend whose family grows them and asked her opinion. Before replying, she laughed and confessed that she had been talking part in the social media frenzy, which surprised me slightly - I hadn't marked her down as the social media type. Here for your edification are the types her family grows. With my translation.
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Osmanthus Flavour (4)
Ling Feng Nuo* (3)
White Sugar Poppy (1)
Glutinous Rice Cake (2)
Black Leaf (5)
Imperial Concubine Smile (6)
Numbers in parentheses are my friend's personal rankings.
*This is amost untranslatable. The nearest I can get is 'mountain range abundant glutinous rice'.
