Rambutan

Where: Indonesia

Rambutan are a close relative of longans and lychee. The fruit loks visually like lychee, except instead of short spikes covering it, long, reddish fur like protuberances cover the delicate white fruit. Peeling one takes a bit of skill, but a knife doesn't hurt.

They taste... well, almost exactly like lychee, and not all too dissimilar to longans. Not entiely sure how to describe it to the unitiated, but a sort of light, sweetalmost pear-like flavor, with an almost shrimp like gelatinous texture.

Given tey are a little harder to come by than lychee or longans, they're not worth hunting down except if, like me, you're ridiculously curious, although they did get a mention on Stargate Universe recently (and fed to an alien who promptly spit them out, but no accounting for taste there...)