--- 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. 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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. 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