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It is also known as siu choy (Cantonese 紹菜), [3] wombok in Australia [4] and wong bok or won bok in New Zealand, all corruptions of wong ngaa baak (Cantonese 黃芽白). [5] In the United Kingdom this vegetable is known as Chinese leaf or winter cabbage, [6] and in the Philippines as petsay (from Hokkien, 白菜 (pe̍h-tshài)) or pechay ...
This group is the more common of the two, especially outside Asia; names such as napa cabbage, dà báicài (Chinese: 大白菜, "large white vegetable"); Baguio petsay or petsay wombok (); Chinese white cabbage; "wong a pak" (Hokkien, Fujianese); baechu (Korean: 배추), wongbok; hakusai (Japanese: 白菜 or ハクサイ) and "suann-tang-pe̍h-á" (Taiwanese) [2] usually refer to members of ...
Wong's King was established in 2004. According to Michael Russell of The Oregonian, "The restaurant was born out of a small chain of American-style Chinese restaurants with locations in Sandy, Gresham and Southeast Portland, and was 'bankrolled by untold thousands of orders of kung pao chicken,' according to a 2005 review from The Oregonian, which called Wong's King Seafood a 'new benchmark ...
Tatsoi (Brassica rapa subsp. narinosa [1] or Brassica rapa var. rosularis [2]) is an Asian variety of Brassica rapa grown for greens. Also called tat choy, it is closely related to the more familiar bok choy.
Chinese restaurants in the United States began during the California Gold Rush (1848–1855), which brought 20,000–30,000 immigrants across from the Canton (Guangdong) region of China. The first Chinese restaurant in America is debated. Some say it was Macau and Woosung, while others cite Canton Restaurant.
Bok choy (American English, Canadian English, and Australian English), pak choi (British English, South African English, and Caribbean English) or pok choi is a type of Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis) cultivated as a leaf vegetable to be used as food.
A major influx of new Chinese residents occurred in the 1950s, after the conclusion of the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949. [7] Chinatown remained a popular dining destination throughout the 1940s and 1950s. [9] A new restaurant, the Three Chinese Sisters, opened in 1949 [13] and quickly became a Cleveland dining landmark. [6]
'Tianjin winter vegetable'; also called tung tsai [1] (Chinese: 冬菜), Tientsin preserved vegetable or Tianjin preserved cabbage) is a type of pickled Bok choy originating in Tianjin, China. It consists of finely chopped "arrow-shaft" cabbage (箭杆菜 jiàngān-cài; a variety with an elongated stalk) and salt .