Pakistan has all sorts of fruits available the year round. Lychee is one of them. It is being sold in every nook and corner from early June to mid August. You can find its freshly pressed juice, smoothies etc. in the season very easily. I personally like to peal and munch.
Pakistani lychees tastes great and also smells great. However, the variety available in Pakistan has a really thin pulp and a really big seed in a ratio of 25:75. Moreover, lychee is being sold attached to its large branches and a lot of leaves that means if you buy a kilogram almost half of it is waste composed of branches/leaves. It is selling for 2USD per kilo or about 180 local Pakistan rupee or 2,000 won only. Dirt cheap!
I think that our lychee growers should have used a good quality of seed among the various varieties of lychee available. I was amazed to see that Bengali lychee which has 75%pulp and 25% seed - a complete opposite of Pakistani lychee but since I've not tasted it yet so I can not further compare.
In Korea if you have visited Seafood Ocean, a Korean restaurant, then the buffet does offer lychee from Thailand in eat as much as you can option. Try this place once if you are in Korea, I'm sure you will like it. It can be listed in Halal restaurants of Korea with a huge variety on their menu in buffet for 30USD including VAT.
A very informative website on lychee is HERE to dig deeper.
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