Napa cabbage choy (from the Cantonese name, ), and celery cabbage. In the United Kingdom this vegetable is known as Chinese leaf, in New Zealand as wong bok or won bok, and in the Philippines as wombok or pechay baguio. The name wombok is also used in Australia. Another name used in English is petsai or pe-tsai. In Russia it's called pekinskaya kapusta (), literally "Peking cabbage". The first notation of Napa cabbage cultivation date from the 15th Century in the Yangtze River region in China. Then it spread to Korea and Japan. Beginning in the 19th Century with the Chinese diaspora,
Philip Choy Philip Choy Philip P. Choy (December 17, 1926 – March 16, 2017) was an architect and historian of Chinese American studies. He is the author of "" (2012), "Canton Footprints: Sacramento’s Chinese Legacy" (2007), and "The Coming Man: 19th Century American Perceptions of the Chinese" (1994). Choy has been a community activist known for landmark preservation in San Francisco. Choy was born in San Francisco, California on December 17, 1926. He grew up in San Francisco Chinatown and he was the fourth in a family of five children with three older sisters and a younger brother. During high school, Choy