During the lotus blooming season, people wake up at dawn, row boats to the large lotus lake to pick lotus flowers to make tea or bring tea to the lake to sprinkle and infuse into the flowers, with the aim of capturing the quintessential fragrance of West Lake lotus, creating a tea that captivates people's hearts, famous for hundreds of years, forming the soul of the Trang An lotus tea brand.
Enjoy West Lake lotus tea - the tea ceremony drink of ancient Trang An people
The lotus in West Lake is also very special, Bach Diep lotus, because only lotus growing from the mud layer of the soil and climate here can create the characteristic aroma of West Lake lotus tea? People mainly use Tan Cuong tea, Shan Tuyet tea (Thai Nguyen) to infuse with West Lake lotus. Those two ingredients are like a natural match made in heaven to create a quintessential drink.
I still remember last year's lotus season, I woke up at 4am to go to Mrs. Dan's house on To Ngoc Van Street, Tay Ho to ask to go with her family to pick lotus to make tea. Mrs. Dan's family has long been famous for the art of making lotus tea.
To have a pot of delicious lotus tea, imbued with the flavor of West Lake lotus, it must go through many steps, many stages from selecting lotus, brewing to brewing with lotus rice or whole flower. I like to drink lotus tea brewed with whole flower because it has enough time to brew and is sealed in the flower, so the flavor is richer and more complete, of course, you have to wait a long time.
Enjoying the famous West Lake lotus tea of Trang An is an elegant pleasure in leisure time. When enjoying lotus tea, there must be a piece of peanut candy, a few pieces of Che Lam or a bit more luxurious, a package of Com Lang Vong… Enjoying tea together, sipping on a piece of Thanh Che candy and contemplating a quintessential drink of the land of a thousand years of culture…, that is the elegance of Trang An.
(*) Contest entry "Impressions of Vietnamese coffee and tea" under the program "Honoring Vietnamese coffee and tea" for the 2nd time, 2024 organized by Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper
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