--- title: 20000 Tea Bags in Portrait of Malaysian Teh Tarik description: Portrait of Malaysian tea Teh Tarik made out of 20000 tea bags canonical: https://time.com/3697126/20000-tea-bags-portrait/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-05T16:52:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:33.654Z og:title: 20000 Tea Bags in Portrait of Malaysian Teh Tarik og:description: Portrait of Malaysian tea Teh Tarik made out of 20000 tea bags og:url: https://time.com/3697126/20000-tea-bags-portrait/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 20000 Tea Bags in Portrait of Malaysian Teh Tarik twitter:description: Portrait of Malaysian tea Teh Tarik made out of 20000 tea bags twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # See a Stunning Work of Art Made of 20,000 Tea Bags  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 5, 2015 4:52 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 5, 2015 4:52 PM UTC A Malaysian artist Hong Yi, nicknamed “Red,” created a portrait of a man pouring teh tarik, a hot milk tea drink popular in the country. It took the artist two months to make this work of art, which was on display at the end of January in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum was taking place. As the artist explained her process on YouTube: --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3697126/20000-tea-bags-portrait/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3697126/20000-tea-bags-portrait/"},"headline":"See a Stunning Work of Art Made of 20,000 Tea Bags","datePublished":"2015-02-05T16:52:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:33.654Z","description":"The artist created 10 shades of brown by steeping bags in varying temperatures","url":"https://time.com/3697126/20000-tea-bags-portrait/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Arts"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3697126/20000-tea-bags-portrait/","name":"See a Stunning Work of Art Made of 20,000 Tea Bags"}}]}] ```