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Sunday, January 30. 2011

Went to a very enjoyable and festive Chinese New Year party last night. It's the Year of the Bunny Rabbit, I was told.

The special cocktail of the evening was the Lychee Martini. I don't think I had ever had a Lychee before, much less a Lychee Martini. Delicious and refreshing.

Lychees are tasty fruits, flavor somewhere between a pear and a grape.

Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink, Our Essays at 19:48 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Lychee flavored drinks and soda are common in Japan, China and other parts of Asia. I never considered it for a Martini, but it makes perfect sense (not overly sweet).

#1 Kevin in WI on 2011-01-30 20:39 (Reply)

Bird Dog, my friend ... I can accept that the lychee drink you describe is delicious and refreshing. What I can't accept is that it is a Martini. We Old School types feel convinced that a Martini is either gin based or maybe vodka based. All these other drinks are mere frou-frou. Pleasant enough but not the Real Thing.

I'm reminded of Ogden Nash's little verse ... "There's something about a Martini, a tingle remarkably pleasant, A yellow a mellow Martini, I wish I had one at present..." and on for a few verses. Worth looking up as we old farts do periodically. Just to remind ourselves of the way it was when Ogden was alive and all was right with the world.

Marianne

#2 Marianne Matthews on 2011-01-30 20:46 (Reply)

I see these flavored martini's all the time and I've often thought that they aren't true martini's - they are just like any tiny bamboo fruit drink.

Then again, I'm a teetotaler so what do I know. All these fancy drinks, mixes, beers and what not came well after I stopped. Never liked martini's when I was drinking alcohol - I was strictly a Maker's Mark bourbon or Jack Daniels neat kind of guy. I really liked Maker's Mark - it was a sweeter bourbon.

Interesting story behind Maker's Mark - it's not a "true" bourbon in the sense that rye is not used - instead more malted barley and a special kind of wheat. TW Samuels came up with the recipe by baking different loaves of bread, picked the one he liked and started fermenting it. :>)

#2.1 Tom Francis on 2011-01-31 08:38 (Reply)

I've made a rather tasty lychee sorbet out of canned lychees. It's pretty much two cans of lychees, one drained, liquid from the other retained, into the blender with 1/3 cup of vodka (for texture). Blend until smooth, then dump into the ice cream maker and let it churn until done. You could also add a splash of creme de minthe for a mint lychee sorbet.

#3 BlogDog (Link) on 2011-01-31 11:18 (Reply)

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