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jkandell
 
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I was just in a Vietnamese traditional tea shop in Vancouver, BC, and
most of the teas were regular taiwan! The owner said that is mostly
what Vietnamese drink. The shop is on Kingsway if anyone is looking
for it.

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Someone asked a week or so ago about Vietnamese tea. I don't know very
> much about it, but what I do know is that most of the tea drunk in Vietnam
> proper is flavoured tea. Most popular are a jasmine tea "Saigon tea" that
> is reminiscent of the Chinese yellow-box tea, and a distant second is
> lotus tea "Hue tea" or "tra sen" which my wife describes as tasting
> like rotting flowers.