Chennai, April 18 -- What is Rambutan?

Rambutan is a tropical fruit that is native to Malaysia and tropical Southeast Asia. It is related to the lychee and is very similar in colour and taste. Unlike the lychee that has a firm, leathery and rough exterior skin, the skin of the rambutan has soft spines which give it a hairy appearance. In fact, this hairy appearance [if gte mso 9]>MicrosoftInternetExplorer402DocumentNotSpecified7.8Normal0
The fruit may seem strange and a little intimidating but the white fleshy fruit within the skin is sweet like the lychee ...