The story
From Teochew 米篩目／米筛目 (bhi² tai¹ mag⁸), with the first element reanalyzed as the word mee, meaning “noodles”, from Hokkien 麵／面 (mī).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
mee tai mak
Today it means: Synonym of silver needle noodles. Full definition →