To eat fresh longans, peel the brown skin to reveal the translucent sweet and juicy flesh, and chew around the black seed. When this tropical fruit is out of season and unavailable in grocery stores, there’s an alternative that should be readily purchasable.

Simply open the can and pour the contents into a bowl (or use a spoon and dig into the can, if that’s your thing). Some words of caution—see the word SYRUP on the label in the second photo? They’re not kidding about that. I suggest going easy on the amount of syrup you add to your bowl/consume because it’s overly sweet. Unless you want your hands to be shaking for an hour after you finish eating the longan in syrup.