"Would you like to come over for some jujube tea?" If you're watching Netflix's Our Beloved Summer, then you know that this butterfly-in-your-stomach-inducing line by Choi Ung (played by Choi Woo-Shik) is the new way to say "Do you want to eat ramyeon?"
Jujube tea was mentioned several times all throughout the Korean drama, mostly because of Ung's trouble in sleeping at night. His leading lady, Kook Yeon-Su (played by Kim Da-Mi), insists on helping him regulate his body clock by offering a glass of jujube tea.
Naturally, we got curious about what jujube tastes like: Is it delicious like the popular honey citron tea? So we tried it out ourselves and if you're just as curious as we are, we know where you can buy a bottle of it too!
What is jujube tea?
Jujube (actually spelled as jujuba) is a Chinese date and a native fruit in Southern Asia. The main ingredient in jujube tea, these small round fruit are packed with nutrients and have a very sweet taste to them, similar to that of rainsins. In alternative medicine, these are used to manage insomnia (as used on Our Beloved Summer) and decrease anxiety.
Where to buy jujube tea?
Since fresh jujube is hard to come by in the Philippines, not to mention the process of drying these fruits and making them into tea can be quite tedious—the next best fast-and-easy option we have is a bottle of Ottogi's Honey Jujube Tea (P259/500 grams and P300/kilogram).
Score a bottle of this in Korean supermarkets like Famulei through their website or on Shopee and Lazada.
Yummy.ph.
this strange new world.