Simmer smoked plums, rock sugar, and perilla leaves in water. Add three ice cubes. On a sweltering day, a cup …
Simmer smoked plums, rock sugar, and perilla leaves in water. Add three ice cubes. On a sweltering day, a cup of the iced plum drink, with its rhythmic clinking of ice, soothes the vexation born of stalled treatises, failed trials, or an elder's sharp rebuke.