VIDEO: A glimpse of B'lao tea

The Ma B'lao people believe that B'lao is the land where three great rivers converge, where the headwaters of the forest have a white tiger, where the Giàng banyan tree lives, and where birds gather every night.

I come back here to return to my roots with distant memories.

The ancient Bao people used to dry white mao tea using a drying basket, a popular tea drying tool and trusted to produce premium batches of tea. The drying basket was meticulously woven from Lo O (a type of bamboo that was very available at Bao Loc Pass at that time). Each tea maker usually had a few dozen drying baskets with a round cylindrical shape with a waist in the middle.

Bai Mao tea must be dried with charcoal and must be lit according to each drying stage of the tea to get the desired finished product.

The water of the white hair tea has a light green color with a pink tinge, not a bit cloudy, as if it contains the purity of heaven and earth. When drinking the tea, the astringent taste gradually turns into sweetness, combined with a light, gentle fragrance to create an aftertaste.

(Entry to the contest "Impressions of Vietnamese coffee and tea" under the program "Honoring Vietnamese coffee and tea" for the 3rd time, 2025 organized by Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper).