07/30/2026
🥤🥤Weekly Drink Special:
Our homemade ❤️ Sour Plum Tea (酸梅汤) ❤️ is back for the summer!
Sweet, tangy, refreshing, and made from a traditional Chinese recipe, this has been one of our favorite ways to beat the Nebraska heat for generations.
For many of us, Sour Plum Tea isn’t just a drink—it’s the taste of childhood summers, family gatherings, and hot afternoons made a little cooler.
If you’ve never tried it before, this is the perfect week. If you already love it… you know it only comes around once a year. 😊
⏳ Available for a limited time while supplies last.
❤️Have a cool week, everyone!
Love,
Blue & Fly
Weekly Special:
❤️Beat the heat in a new Chinese healthier way.
This and coming weeks are already 90+ hot, which made me super miss my grandma’s Sour Plum Tea. That taste is full of my childhood.
Today, let’s talk about this popular old fashioned Chinese style summer drink——
❤️Homemade Iced Sour Plum Tea 酸梅汤❤️
Actually, before any commercial beverage companies made their way into China, this centuries old drink was, and still is in most Chinese people’s minds, the ultimate thirst quencher, especially in the heat of the summer! The color is a deep magenta and is a kind of deliciously refreshing drink.
When I was young, air-conditioning was non-existent. When your palm-leaf fan stopped being effective is when you knew it was time to cool down INTERNALLY!!!!!!!!!!! I remember the three common remedies were watermelon, mung bean soup (绿豆汤), and this sour plum drink. In those time, my grandma like to make this sour plum drink for our family a lot in summer, and I could easily 😜call together all my little friends in the neighborhood with it, no matter how hot the weather was. I had the fondest memories of this sweet, tart, and refreshing sour plum drink, even with some more added water to share with more friends. 😜😜😜 (btw, I miss you, grandma ❤️ )
So what makes up this fruity and refreshing Sour Plum Drink? Besides sour plums (乌梅), also has hawthorn berries (山楂片), dried orange peel (陈皮), licorice root (甘草), dried hibiscus flowers (洛神花), and rock sugar (冰糖). That’s why people say this sour drink is also considered to be a medicinal drink, kind of like today’s fresh pressed juices. All of the ingredients are natural and meant to cleanse and calm your insides, expel heat and quench thirst.
It’s good for the whole family, and is thought to be effective in fighting “heat-related” ailments according to traditional Chinese medicine. Even young people know to order Sour Plum Drinks when eating hot pot and spicy foods.
Come see us my friends, I already try my best to stop Joe keeping pouring the tea into his cup sneakily. 😂😂😂
Blue and Fly