(Baonghean.vn) - Those who have visited Quy Hop should not forget to enjoy a bowl of sweet green tea sold around Thung May Lake, and remember it forever.
Making green tea is not difficult but requires many steps. After picking green tea, wash it, crush it, and pound it in a mortar. You have to pound it evenly for the tea to be delicious. The mortar must be made of old bamboo, and the pestle must be made of iron to pound it smoothly. When the tea is pounded, add cold boiled water, stir well with bamboo chopsticks, and stir until the residue is gone. In summer, use cold boiled water, in winter, add 2 cold and 1 boiling. If you like to drink it cold, put it in the refrigerator.
Green tea has become a familiar drink not only to the Thai people but also to many tourists. Many visitors from the lowlands, every time they go to Quy Hop, bring back Thung May green tea to drink and as a gift for their relatives.
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| To have a cup of fragrant and cool tea, you must choose thick, green, crispy tea leaves grown on the hills of Chau Thai commune - Quy Hop. |
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| Bamboo tubes must be washed thoroughly and dried before pounding tea. |
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| The tea pounder must be made of iron, with one pointed end used to break the hard tea stems and one round end used to pound the tea until smooth. |
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| Ms. Dam Lanh, who makes sweet potato tea in Quy Hop, said: making sweet potato tea is not difficult but requires many elaborate steps. |
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| The person pounding the tea must be rhythmic, avoiding letting the tea and water splash out. |
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| After the tea has been pounded, put it in a tray and filter the tea water. According to the amount of tea to make tea, boil water and let it cool. |
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| A cup of fragrant and cool tea, drinking on an empty stomach will not make you drunk. Tea is good for health, helps the drinker sleep well. |
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| A small bottle of crushed tea costs 10,000 VND, a large bundle of tea can make 5 bottles. |
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| In the summer, Ms. Dam Lanh (Block 3 - Quy Hop Town), who has many years of experience in making green tea, often stores green tea bottles in styrofoam boxes to preserve the fresh taste of the tea. Green tea is only used during the day and is good for health. |
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| At Thung May Lake (Quy Hop Town), visitors enjoy cups of cool, fragrant green tea instead of other soft drinks, delicious - nutritious - cheap. |
Thu Huong
