A portrait orientation view from inside a small courtyard of a Vietnamese tea shop. We can't see much of the surrounding buildings or the tiled flooring or potted plants and trees that decorate this place because the image is mostly focussed on a low dais on which there is a table draped in white cloth surrounded by an ornate pergola in polished black wood, its thick supports hosting Vietnamese words in flowing gold writing and a sign on the top reading "Tea Shop" and "Listening to the echo from the sea" in English below an equivalent if not literal phrase in Vietnamese. Red, Chinese-style paper lanterns hang from each corner of the pergola. On the table are several bowls and pots, and some small cups. Three Vietnamese women stand behind the table, each dressed in long silk dresses, all with long, dark hair. They are busy preparing tea for visitors, some of whom can just be glimpsed in the background of the courtyard.
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We've been fortunate to travel to Asia a few times now and this was from our first trip there in 2008. Here, in Nha Trang, Vietnam, we visited a tea house and silk embroidery workshop. The freshly-prepared […]
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