Video captured the moment of a Woman using her bare hands to dry tea leaves on a hot pan in Son La, Vietnam.
According to the filmmaker, The woman lives in the mountains of northern Vietnam. Their area is famous for the production of tea leaves. The tea trees are grown in the mountainous area 1,600 meters above sea level, covered with clouds almost all year round, the tea buds on the hundred-year-old ancient tea tree are picked by the people here, copied by hand. Using fire with its own method, creating tea products with special flavor.
They will choose standard tea leaves. After that, it is processed and dried on a hot pan. This is the unique point of the tea flavor of this region.
On average, making a batch of tea by this method takes 3 to 5 hours. After the tea leaves are wilted, they will be crushed by hand to check the moisture content and then put into the pan and continue to stir until the moisture content of the tea is satisfactory.
The woman said that they cannot wear gloves when drying the tea leaves because they can only feel the dryness of the tea leaves with their hands. Their hands are used to the high heat in the pan. Whether the taste of tea is good or not depends on the drying of the tea leaves.
Each kilogram of tea, which is hand-dried in a pan, sells for $40 to $50. many times more than machine-dried tea costs from 10 -15 USD.