Here’s a dessert that manages to be both exotic and delicious: The

Here’s a dessert that manages to be both exotic and delicious: The fruit plate at the recently opened French-Vietnamese Stateside on Capitol Hill offers a chance to experience many of those funky Asian fruits you see at Uwajimaya but are possibly too intimidated to try. Served on a bed of ice are rambutans popping from their spiky shells; fleshy chunks of jackfruit; slices of fuchsia-skinned dragonfruit; wedges of grapefruit-like pomelo; and spheres of longan (similar to lychees). It’s served with jasmine ice cream enhanced by lemon balm and orange bergamot. Despite being a light dessert, there’s a lot of it, so two should share easily.