At the shores of westlake
Hanoi, Vietnam
At the biggest lake in Hanoi you find several ponds where lotus flowers are grown. These massive flowers are mostly used for wedding celebrations. They are essential for the famous wedding photography, to convince your choosen wife to marry you or to have a tea with your parents in law!
A day for a lotus flower farmer usualy starts at 5am.
The first step is to get on the rawing boat and collect the flowers before the bloom is about to open wide in the morning.
After having finished the collection, the flowers are bundled with care.
while inside the floating house the family works together
to convert the bloom into salads, teas and many more usefull and tasty thing.
This time of processing the flower is buisy but also time for a little chat
While the family sits together, they buyers have to wait...
until they can purchase their bouquet....
