What do you call the chinese fruit which is about the size of a kumquat and you peel the skin to eat it?

Question

in cantonese its pronounced

PAY PA

but im not sure what its called in english

Answer 1

lychee?

Answer 2

This is litchi - or lychee in English.

Answer 3

I'm quite sure you're talking about the loquat, pronounced as such in Cantonese, or Pi-pa in Mandarin.

It's used to make that thick, black Chinese cough syrup I thought was some sort of candy. It's great stuff, but I've never seen it in its fresh form before.

Answer 4

Shiftace is right. It is loquat in english.

Answer 5

If it has a red skin it's a lychee.  If it has a brownish skin it's a longan.

Answer 6

There two fruits that fit your descriptions, that I know off:

1. Lychee

2. Longan

Answer 7

litchi.  or lychee.

Answer 8

lychee? longan? mangosteen?

Answer 9

lychee,  they are a type of gooseberries and delicious with ice cream or cream

Answer 10

im cantonese; know wat ur talking about but its definately not lychee or wat the other r saying. it probably doesnt hv a usual english name, even if it does its probably very scientifical or deduced from the chinese language.

Answer 11

It's not lychee or longan. It's been used in a cough syrup from China/Taiwan. But sorry don't know the name in English too. :(