Vietnam is proud to be one of the first nations in the world to understand the pleasures of drinking tea and how to go about it.
The country now wants to share this culture with people from all over the world at a special event scheduled for November 20 in the old quarter of Hanoi.
Nguyen Van Thich, an elderly man living in Hang Dao Street, one of the oldest streets in Hanoi, has enjoyed drinking tea since he was very young. He says that Hanoi is the centre of Vietnam’s tea drinking culture, which is an integral part of the capital city’s thousand-year history.
The elegancy and sophistication of this Hanoian culinary art has increased a cup of tea’s aesthetics to a very high level, he adds.
Vietnamese tea culture is an art that revives the soul of Hanoi ’s old quarter, which is embossed with their ancestors’ characteristics, in harmony with modern customs, says Tran Thuy Lan from the Hanoi Old Quarter Managerial Board.
The coming celebrations aim to help foreign tourists and the younger generation in Vietnam to love Hanoi, especially the customs, culinary arts and simple but fulfilling lifestyle of Hanoians, enrich the ancient traditions of Hanoi ’s ancient streets and attract more Vietnamese and foreign tourists.
The event, being held at the heritage house No. 87 Ma May Street, will run until November 23.
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