" TRÀ CHANH " VS. " TRÀ ĐÁ "

Iced tea is a type of beverages with tea material is cooled with crushed ice very popular in Vietnam today, and probably also more common in warm countries in the world. Most popular cafe in Vietnam are selling this tea with price equal or higher than the hot cup of tea for a while. Iced tea popular because of convenience, easy to make, taste fragrant and refreshing good use.

It is difficult to determine the appearance of iced tea ever, in Vietnam there is no snow, and the ice manufacturing instruments only gradually gaining popularity in the last decades of the 20th century was probably cold Tea people used common in warm countries like South Vietnam, while the Hanoi in particular and the north in general usually blow hot tea (including for the purpose of cooling). This is also due to the climate characteristics make each region the culinary culture of each other. When the stone tools, such as refrigerators, becomes more prevalent, then instead of cold tea, some people began beating and pour into a glass of ice water to drink tea to cool, forming the stone tea "copyright" of the product certainly belonged to South Vietnam, namely in Saigon. Because in the south due to many factors such as climate, weather, working style has led to people add ice into cups daily to increase the beverage which retains the flavor of the tea.

During the early years of the 90s of the 20th century, ice tea began to appear in the culinary culture of North Vietnam, first in Hanoi, along with sugarcane juice. Initially it was not much support, even has been some press criticism that the nature of the tea was cold, add ice to drinks harmful to health because cold easily cause stomach. However, it did not take much convincing to affect ordinary young people (students) who need workers from other provinces and Hanoi on business. NThe hot days of summer Tonkin, the stuffy can be cleared away by a really cool glass of iced tea at very low cost, made iced tea is increasingly popular in the north and today, work on the shop call roadside drinking a glass of iced tea for the thirsty and cooling assistance is a normal thing in the north during the hot days of summer. And in the northern winter days rarely see water kiosks sell these beverages.

Generally less common in the world of cold drinks with tea as the main raw material except tropical countries such as Vietnam. Iced tea has appeared in Vietnam meet the cooling needs of the people of South and in the North during the summer.

However, crossing the Hai Van Pass to "hand in", features iced tea than in the North were completely different. Iced tea from South Central or South generally very dilute phase, most tea flavor but just not acrid taste of tea, with lots of crushed stone in the cup, use the scented teas are like tea lotus, jasmine tea, etc. Meanwhile, in the North usually iced tea bold and fragrant taste more like Southern iced tea, ice usually more common to rubble. Use iced tea tea can often completely new challenge with the intention making iced tea or green tea with tea leaves fresh brake, then kicked. However, many types of stone teahouse "teahouses" often take advantage of late tea, tea was cold or too light, only every other smell taste tea without tea, with the aim of reducing the cost price of the product and that more or less detrimental to

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