From June 14 to June 20, AEON Vietnam first held “Luc Ngan Lychee Festival” at 3 Southern Department Stores and Supermarkets, namely AEON Tan Phu Celadon, AEON Binh Tan and AEON Binh Duong Canary Mr. Bui Trung Chinh – Purchasing Manager of Food Industry, AEON Vietnam Purchasing Department – said: Luc Ngan lychee festival is an opportunity for southern customers to freely choose, shop and enjoy sweet flavors. The sweetness and freshness of Vietnam’s leading specialty fruit. Besides, through this activity, AEON Vietnam wishes to cooperate with customers to promote product consumption for Bac Giang farmers, especially while the transportation and consumption of products are greatly affected by the epidemic. It is expected that during the week of the festival, 3 Southern Department Stores and Supermarkets of AEON Vietnam will consume about 30 tons of Luc Ngan lychee. It is expected that the consumption of this fruit at AEON Vietnam’s supermarkets will double by 2020. Previously, from the end of May 2021, when the lychee crop started, AEON Vietnam sold lychees at General Department Stores and AEON Supermarkets in the North. AEON Group continues to purchase and export Vietnamese litchi to Japan Not only serving domestic customers, this year, AEON Group continues to purchase and export Vietnamese litchi to Japan through its member company, AEON TOPVALU Vietnam. Information from a representative of AEON TOPVALU said that the first shipment purchased from Hai Duong province arrived in Japan in the last week of May. This first batch of fabrics has just been sold for the first time at AEON Kagoshima Shopping Center. In the Kyushu region, within the framework of Vietnam Fair (Vietnam Fair) held from June 4 to June 6, Vietnamese lychees were introduced to Japanese consumers along with typical Vietnamese culture. Men such as ao dai, lantern… It is expected that in this year’s fabric season, there will be next batches of fabrics exported to Japan by AEON TOPVALU Vietnam. In 2020, Vietnamese lychee was first introduced to Japanese consumers through the AEON supermarket system in Japan. Bac Giang lychees are sold at AEON Vietnam and Japan, AEON Group not only connects and supports lychee consumption to domestic consumers, especially, Southern consumers can enjoy sweet fruit of Bac Giang land. This is an opportunity to increase the value of Vietnamese agricultural products to the world, as well as contribute to increasing the export turnover of Vietnam’s agricultural products.

How to choose delicious, standard lychee In order to choose good quality lychees, first of all, you must choose fresh fruits with branches that stick to the fruit and the leaves are still green. The branches of the lychee are small and flexible. Avoid buying fruits with brown spots (bruises) on the stem, they should not be bought because such fruits are prone to head worms. Ripe litchi has red-pink skin, round fruits, smooth spines. When touching the fruit, it must be soft but elastic, showing that the fabric is still fresh. If the lychee is soft and not elastic, it means that the fruit is overripe and not delicious to eat. If the good lychee will have a fragrance, you should peel 1-2 lychees to taste, lychee has thick pulp, small seeds and sweeter taste than hybrid lychee. How to make sugar soaked fabric How to soak your lychee Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen (living in Da Nang) is very simple, lychee meat absorbs sugar, cool but still retains the crispiness of the lychee. Ingredients for soaking 1 kg of sugar lychee: – 2 kg of fresh lychee – 800 ml of water – 600 gr of rock sugar (white sugar, jaggery) – 1 pinch of salt – Glass or porcelain jars for storage. Making Step 1: Buy lychee, cut the stalk, then wash and separate the seeds. Mix a basin of clean water with a little salt, separate where to soak the cloth to avoid darkening. After separating, rinse with clean water to reduce the salty taste, then drain. Step 2: Put 800 ml of water and sugar into the pot, stir until the sugar dissolves, then turn on the stove to boil the sugar water, then add the lychee. Wait for it to boil for 3 minutes. Step 3: Take a clean jar and put the pre-processed cloth into the jar, pour the sugar water into the jar and close the lid and wait for the cloth jar to cool completely and then put it in the refrigerator. Note: – Cloth canned as above can be stored in the refrigerator for 1 month. When needed, just open the jar and you have cool cloth water to use. When eating, scoop out the cup, break the ice, put it in. You can make tea and then add a few soaked cloths, the lychee is sweet and still retains its crispiness, the lychee juice is soaked with lychee flavor. Good luck!