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PÓ PO'S MALÀ HOT SAUCE — GIFT SET OF 3

Sweet Revenge · Spicy Revenge · Ultimate Revenge
5oz/140g each · Three bottles · $39 Certified Organic Farm-Grown Chilies · Sebastopol, California

To understand Pó Po's Revenge, you need a little back story.

Pó Po — 婆婆 — means maternal grandmother in Mandarin. Leslie Wiser's Chinese grandparents met in Chongqing during the Sino-Japanese War. When that war ended and the civil war started, they fled to Taiwan — and the mala flavors of Chongqing, the numbing heat that defines that city's cuisine, didn't quite make the journey with them.

They survived in fragments. 眷村 — juāncūn — were the military dependents villages built across Taiwan after 1949, where displaced mainland families from Sichuan, Hunan, Shanghai, and beyond cooked together and kept their food traditions alive as best they could. The mala of Chongqing lived on in those kitchens, quieter, adapted, but present.

Leslie grew up at the edges of that cuisine. Not eating Chongqing mala exactly, but close enough to know it was there. When she started Radical Family Farms in Sebastopol and began growing Er Jing Tiao and Xiao Mi La chili peppers from Sichuan seed, she started following that echo back to its source.

Pó Po's Malà Hot Sauce is what she found there. Made from chilies she grew herself. Named for the grandmother who survived Chongqing and never made this sauce — but probably would have approved

Malà — 麻辣 — the flavor of Chongqing:

Là 辣 is heat. Má 麻 is the electric tingling numbing sensation of Sichuan peppercorn — huājiāo 花椒 — that makes Chongqing cuisine unlike any other food tradition on earth. Together they create malà: a sensory experience that is simultaneously fiery and numbing, bright and deep, challenging and completely addictive.

All three sauces are made from organic Chinese chili peppers grown at Radical Family Farms — the same Er Jing Tiao and Xiao Mi La varieties we sell dried, the same chilies that go into our Duo Jiao fermented paste. Five ingredients. Nothing hidden. Everything intentional.

The three bottles — the full spectrum of mala:

Sweet Revenge — Mild Green 🌶️ Organic unripe green chilies. Mild heat. Gentle numbing. The beginning of mala — bright, grassy, approachable. The sauce that goes on everything, every day. The door into the flavor of Chongqing for those who have not walked through it yet.

Spicy Revenge — Medium Red 🌶️🌶️ Organic ripe red chilies at full color and flavor. Medium heat. Medium numbing. The balanced center of the line — enough heat to matter, enough má to feel, enough restraint to reach for it constantly. Our most versatile sauce. The one most people finish first.

Ultimate Revenge — Hot Red 🌶️🌶️🌶️ Organic red chilies plus extra farm-grown Xiao Mi La 小米辣 at 75,000 SHU. Full heat. Full numbing. The sauce for mala devotees and those who want to understand what Chongqing actually tastes like in its full expression.

What to put:

Eggs in every form. Avocado toast — try it before dismissing it. Mix in with our Tomato Ketchup. Burgers. Pizza. Burritos. Nachos.

The ingredients:

Farm-grown organic Chinese chili peppers — Er Jing Tiao for fragrance and color, Xiao Mi La for heat, filled in with Korean and Sichuan chilis, all grown in Sebastopol. 50 Hertz Sichuan peppercorns for exceptional má intensity. Apple cider vinegar. Garlic. Sea salt.

Five ingredients. The flavor of a city. The echo of a family history.

Certified Organic · No-Spray · Farm-Grown Sebastopol, California · Ships to all 50 states in custom-fitted packaging · Glass bottles with dividers · Also available as individual bottles · Part of The Radical Family Farms Pantry Bundle · Radical Family Farms · radicalfamilyfarms.com

BÓ JÚHUĀ CHRYSANTHEMUM TEA 亳菊花茶
2025 Harvest · Certified Organic · No-Spray · Estate Grown Sebastopol, California
0.5oz · $12 · Approximately 10–14 servings

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We are one of the few farms in the United States growing certified organic Bó Júhuā — the superior Bo variety of chrysanthemum that Traditional Chinese Medicine has prized above all others for over a thousand years.

Not all chrysanthemum tea is the same. In China three main varieties are cultivated for tea and medicine — Háng Júhuā 杭菊花 from Hangzhou, Gòng Júhuā 贡菊花 from Huizhou, and Bó Júhuā 亳菊花 from Bozhou in Anhui Province. Among practitioners and connoisseurs, Bó Júhuā is considered the most fragrant, the most medicinally potent, and the most prized. It is the variety traditionally reserved for the finest teas and the most serious therapeutic use.

We grow it here in Sebastopol, California. USA.

Our certified organic, no-spray Bó Júhuā is harvested four times per week at the precise moment of peak bloom — September through November each year. Timing is everything. Flowers harvested a day too early or too late lose the volatile aromatic oils that carry both the flavor and the therapeutic properties that make this variety worth seeking out. After harvest the flowers are dried carefully and packaged by hand in small batches into kraft bags.

The 2025 harvest is gone. We sell out every year without exception.

The flavor:

Naturally sweet, floral and delicate with none of the bitterness that inferior chrysanthemum teas carry. Bó Júhuā at proper ripeness and careful drying is clean and fragrant — a cooling, calming cup that works as beautifully hot in winter as it does cold-brewed over ice in summer. The flowers open fully in your cup as they steep. This is part of the experience.

Traditional Chinese Medicine uses 亳菊花:

Bó Júhuā is one of the most important herbs in the Chinese pharmacopeia — classified as a herb that releases the exterior and clears heat. Traditional uses include:

• Blood pressure and cardiovascular health — dilates blood vessels, supports arterial flexibility, used in treating hypertension and heart pain

• Liver health — clears liver heat and wind, supports detoxification

• Eye health — red, dry, swollen or tired eyes; blurry vision; excessive tearing

• Headache and migraine — especially associated with heat, rising liver yang, or hypertension

• Cold and flu, fever and heatstroke — releases exterior heat

• Dizziness, tinnitus and hearing loss — calms rising yang energy

• Atherosclerosis — cardiovascular protective properties

Caffeine-free. Safe to drink throughout the day. Traditionally paired with green tea for compounding cardiovascular and antioxidant benefit. Add dried goji berries for sweetness and additional eye health support.

How to brew:

• Hot: 3–4 grams of flowers — approximately one rounded tablespoon — per 6–8 ounces of water just under boiling (175–185°F). Steep 3–5 minutes. Re-steep 2–3 times — later steeps reveal different floral notes.

• Cold brew: Place flowers in cold filtered water overnight in the refrigerator. A delicate, naturally sweet summer drink.

• With green tea: Add a pinch of loose leaf green tea to the same cup. A classic Chinese pairing that compounds the cardiovascular benefits of both.

• With rock sugar: A small piece of Chinese rock sugar (冰糖) is the traditional sweetener — adds gentle sweetness without overpowering the floral character.

Available at:
Sebastopol Certified Farmers Market every Sunday 9am–1:30pm · Yun Hai Shop · radicalfamilyfarms.com

Certified Organic · No-Spray · Non-GMO · No-Till · Regenerative Agriculture
Estate Grown in Sebastopol, California, USA · Radical Family Farms
CCOF Certified · USDA Organic

ORGANIC DRIED CHILI PEPPER SET OF 4
2025 Harvest · Certified Organic · No-Spray · Estate Grown Sebastopol, California USA
Four 1oz kraft bags · $40

Chinese cuisine runs on dried chilies. The fragrance in your chili oil, the color in your doubanjiang, the heat in your hot pot, the soul of your mala sauce — all of it starts here, with the right dried chili grown with intention.

We grow four distinct Chinese and Korean chili varieties at Radical Family Farms in Sebastopol, California — each from authentic seed, each with its own character, heat level, and culinary purpose. The same chilies that go into our Pó Po's Malà Hot Sauce and our Duo Jiao fermented chili paste. Grown certified organic, no-spray, in Sonoma County soil and harvested at peak ripeness from our 2025 growing season.

This set gives you the full toolkit of a serious Chinese kitchen.

What's inside:

Er Jing Tiao 二荆条 · 1oz · Mild to Moderate Heat
The foundational chili of Sichuan cuisine. Fruity, fragrant, deeply red.

Sichuan Chili (Er Jing Tiao Cross) · 1oz · Medium to Hot
More heat, less fruit. The everyday workhorse of the Sichuan pantry.

Xiao Mi La 小米辣 · 1oz · Hot · 75,000 SHU
Small, fierce, intensely aromatic. A Yunnan and Guizhou staple.

Korean Chili · 1oz · Medium Heat
Sweet, earthy warmth. The foundation of gochugaru and Korean BBQ.

What to make with them:

• Chili crisp and chili oil — the combination of Er Jing Tiao and Xiao Mi La is the classic base

• Doubanjiang — Er Jing Tiao is the non-negotiable ingredient

• Hot pot broth — whole dried chilies bloomed in oil with Sichuan peppercorn

• Lacto-fermented chili paste — the foundation of our own Duo Jiao

• Korean gochugaru — grind your Korean chili for the freshest possible kimchi base

• Sichuan dry-fried dishes — Lazi Ji (chili chicken), Mapo Tofu, Shuizhu Yu

• Chili flakes for finishing — grind any variety for fresher flavor than anything in a jar

Why grow your own:

Most dried Chinese chilies available in the US come from large commercial operations in China — commodity growing with no traceability. Ours come from thirty feet away. You know the farm, the variety, the harvest year, and the growing methods. Certified organic. No-spray. No-till. Non-GMO. Sebastopol, California.

The difference in fragrance when you open the bag is immediate.

2025 Harvest · Certified Organic · No-Spray · Non-GMO · Estate Grown Sebastopol, California
CCOF Certified · USDA Organic · Radical Family Farms