Palestinian cuisine a variety of leaf vegetables, primarily grape leaves, cabbage leaves and less often chard. "Mahshi" requires delicacy and time—the main reason it is prepared before the day it is cooked and served. Many female family members participate in the rolling and stuffing of the vegetables, relaxing the amount of individual effort required, with great attention to detail. "Waraq Dawali" (stuffed grape leaves), is a "mahshi" meal reserved for large gatherings. The grape leaves are normally wrapped around minced meat, white rice and diced tomatoes, however meat is not always used. Dawali is an excellent representation of the attention to detail
Chinese cabbage International Space Station a crop of Chinese cabbage from a plant growth device included an allotment for crew consumption, while the rest was saved for scientific study. There are two distinctly different groups of "Brassica rapa" used as leaf vegetables in China, and a wide range of cultivars within these two groups. The binomial name "B. campestris" is also used. This group is the more common of the two, especially outside Asia; names such as napa cabbage, "dà báicài" (Chinese: 大白菜, lit. "large white vegetable"); "Baguio petsay" or "petsay wombok" (Tagalog); "Chinese white cabbage"; "wong a pak" (Hokkien, Fujianese); "baechu"