As a political asylee from Myanmar, few would think that Sai and Thawdar Kyaw would soon work to become entrepreneurs and the founders of a gateway tea company. 

Sai came to the U.S in 1993, but before that he was raised in the fields of a tea farm in the northern part of the Shan State in Myanmar. Even as a child, Sai knew the basics about cultivating and harvesting tea and producing delicious Burmese fermented tea. The family business was already in his blood. 

The young couple decided to opened the restaurant to spread Myanmar’s little known name to the world. How? With the national dish, which was tea salad. They chose Boston, Massachusetts in February of 2007, and called it Yoma. There, to this day they serve traditional and modern Myanmar cuisine. The biggest hit was the different, yet amazing tea salad (Lahphet Thote). The staple salad of Myanmar was now popular in Boston, so they decided to make a business out of it. 

Enter Yoma Myanmar Tea Company, established in 2013. Yoma quickly spread the news of edible tea in Tea Salad - which was now synonymous with Myanmar, all across the U.S in various stores and restaurants. It is also gaining global recognition, but that is a process they still work on every day. Yoma Myanmar Tea was built on spreading the taste and culture of Myanmar, in distributing all natural Myanmar foods; the main star being the Zayan Pickled Tea, straight from family own tea farm located at Namsan, Northern Shan State of Myanmar. 

We continue to guarantee providing you with the healthy, unique Myanmar taste in which you cannot find anywhere else.