A tea server slowly pours tea into cups from a teapot. The pouring is performed beautifully, in a manner known as ‘high mountain-long river', which helps the scent of the tea spread. Gracefully offering guests, she holds a cup with three fingers offering the tea as ‘three dragons flanking a pearl'.
That's only a snapshot of the tea drinking culture of Vietnamese people. The Vietnamese often take tea, betel or a cigarette as a prelude to conversation as conveyed by the folk saying that says "a quid of betel and areca-nut starts the ball rolling".