Pronunciation
English Name

tea bag

Cantonese (Traditional)

茶包

Mandarin (Pinyin)

chá bāo


Yale Romanization

chàh bāau

Jyutping

caa4 bau1

Character Breakdown

茶 is tea, and 包 is bag, (the same bao as in dim sum buns).

tea bag
About This Dish

Origin Story

The first commercial tea bags (although not the first patented tea bags) were developed over a hundred years ago by Thomas Sullivan, a New York coffee and tea importer. Legend has it that his silk tea bags were only meant for packaging but customers just brewed the whole thing, and eureka, a product was born!

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Yale:
chàh bāau
Jyutping:
caa4 bau1