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6 Delicious Must-try Vietnamese Drinks when travelling Vietnam
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6 Delicious Must-try Vietnamese Drinks when travelling Vietnam
April 30, 2021
Vietnam is a country with a Unique Culture in Southeast Asia, especially culinary culture.
Here are 6 Delicious Must-try Vietnamese Drinks when traveling to this country.
Green tea is one of the cultural drinks of the Vietnamese people.
Green tea becomes an essential part of Vietnamese life, from Tet holidays, festivals, weddings to funerals.
Tea trees have been grown everywhere since a long time, especially in rural or upland areas. The two main types of teas include: fresh tea and dried tea.
Both of them have a relaxing aroma, however fresh tea is a bit more bitter and bitter than dried tea.
In fact, people mixed green tea with many kinds of herbs to create a variety of tea flavors for your choice such as lotus tea, chamomile tea, oolong tea, etc.
If you have a chance to visit a Vietnamese family, they will offer a cup of tea as a way of showing hospitality to welcome guests to their home.
This is considered as a traditional feature of this millennial country.
Lotus tea is a tea flavored with a lotus flavor.
With the sophistication in preparation and ingredients with the taste of Vietnam, lotus tea has become a representative of Vietnamese tea culture.
Lotus Tea contributes to tea culture around the world.
This tea is a blend of green tea grown on the red soil of the highlands and the fragrance of the national flower of Vietnam (Lotus).
Lotus tea makers must be delicate and meticulous in each stage.
Choosing a delicious tea, select each lotus flower picked in the early morning, brew the tea skillfully in each petal so that the acridness is reduced, the sweetness is just enough to infuse and the fragrance is faint.
Lemon tea is made very simply with tea (dried green tea), sugar, lemon juice and ice cold.
Lemon tea has a sweet and sour taste that is easy to drink and is served both on the sidewalks as well as in the restaurants.
Chilled tea is a very popular beverage that visitors should try when coming to Vietnam.
These delicious, yet cool green teas are great for hot summer days.
Guests can sit at the shop on the sidewalk, watch the daily life of local people, chat with friends…
Iced tea has created a unique culture of the Vietnamese people.
Vietnam ranks 2nd in the world in terms of coffee production.
There are many famous Coffee brands in Vietnam.
Ground is more popular among coffee brands in Vietnam and Vietnamese people love to use filtered coffee.
In Hanoi there is egg coffee – a very special kind of coffee. Some coffee shops have brands from the French such as Giang coffee, Nhan coffee or Lam coffee.
Vietnamese "Egg Coffee" is technically a beverage.
Egg white foam is like soft egg cake on a concentrated Vietnamese coffee cup that will make even ordinary people who do not drink coffee often have to take a spoon to taste it.
In Hanoi, go into a small alley between souvenir shops at 11 Hang Gai, climb a few steps to enjoy egg coffee and see the beautiful and indescribably beautiful Sword Lake view.
Delicious and "fresh" draft beer is the most popular in Vietnam.
Draft beer has low alcohol content (less than 3%), cheap price (1 USD / 1 liter), so it is very popular with Western customers.
Vietnamese people drink beer with snacks such as green mango, sour spring rolls, boiled snails ...
Vietnamese men love rice wine with an alcohol content of about 29.5%.
Sticky rice wine is a traditional strong wine.
A great variety of snacks such as grilled squid, barbecue or seafood often accompany this drink.
Sticky rice wine has a lighter alcohol content and a sweeter taste than regular rice wine.