Summer time what do you like to drink ? There is a popular drink for Chinese culture that is Pearl Barley Drink, which is a drink for dehydration of water of the inner body. It helps for weight lost too.
Ingredients: (for 4 portions)
Pearl Barley : 100 grams
Oat (optional) : a little
Sugar (optional) : a little
Method:
1) Soak the pearl barley with water overnight
2) Another day, Boil water and put all Pearl Barleys for cooking until all are soft
3) Add some oat for tasty option
4) can serve in hot or chill for serving.
Eating the barleys can change your fortune if you are born in summer time.
You can keep a bottle of drink , no sugar added , for the diet season.
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Soak overnight could cook pearl barley easily. |
mrschungblog 
I remember, on the old TV show ‘Upstairs-Downstairs’, the family drank Barley Water during the hottest days of summer. I wonder if the Brits got the idea from the Chinese?
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I think so. barley is high fibre and for comfort food!
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