Vietnamese Lotus Tea « TRÀ SEN »

I am writing my first notebook entry on italki to write about the Vietnamese Lotus Tea (Tra Sen), my favorite vietnamese tea of Vietnam.

The lotus tea is the mixing a mixture of green tea and the stigmas of lotus'. It is a rare gift and valuable in Vietnam. For the Vietnamese, the smell of lotus is one of the most beautiful and delicate that is exists. Rare, The lotus flower only grows only in a few places (the most famous place is HoTay, Hanoi) and only flowers for only three months per year. For one kilo of lotus tea, we use 1500 fresh lotus flowers. The process of making it request requires a lot of patience and talent. The people must gather at dawn the flowers, select picked by hand with many close attention to the stigma, then mix it with vietnamese green tea. For this reason, historically that before the lotus tea was reserved for royalty and rich families only.

In the season of lotus, from Juin june to Septembre, with my friends, we go often to HoTay (the west lake) to drink a fresh lotus tea. The people put the green tea on the lotus and keep the flower closed for one a night. Tomorow, we can take this tea to drink The next day we can drink it. It’s so fresh and smell good.

If you come to Hanoi one day, don’t forget to taste this tea ☺


Thanks to reading my notebook and corecting it for me. I think i have a lot of mistakes because it has been a long time since I've written in English.

Really good actually :-)

Vietnamese Lotus Tea « TRÀ SEN »

I write my first notebook entry on italki about the Vietnamese Lotus Tea (Tra Sen), my favorite tea of Vietnam.

The lotus tea is the mixing (or mixture) of green tea and the stigma  (flower plant i think but I don't know this word in English: botanic term) of lotus. It is a rare and valuable gift  in Vietnam. For Vietnamese, the smell of lotus is one of the most beautiful and delicate. Rare, the flower lotus grows only in few places (the most famous place is HoTay, Hanoi) and it blooms only three months per year. For one kilo of lotus tea, we use 1500 fresh lotus flowers. The fabrication process  requests a lot of patience and talent. People must pick up the flowers at dawn , select by hand with many attention the stigma. People mix it with green tea of Vietnam. For this reason, at the origin the lotus tea was reserved only for the royal and rich families.

During the season of lotus (from June to September), with my friends, we go often to HoTay (west lake) to drink a fresh lotus tea. People put the green tea into the lotus, keep the flower closed for one night. The next day, we can drink this tea. It’s so fresh and have a good smell.

If you come to Hanoi one day, don’t forget to taste this tea ☺


Thanks for reading my notebook and corrige it for me. I think i have a lot of mistakes because it’s longtime i haven't written in English.

good job

Tôi không thich tra sen.