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,
Fat choy For that reason, this product is a popular ingredient in dishes used for the Chinese New Year. It is enjoyed as an alternative to cellophane noodles. It is mostly used in Cantonese cuisine and Buddhist cuisine. It is sometimes used as a hot pot ingredient. Fat choy is also used in Vietnamese cuisine. It is called "tóc tiên" or "tóc thiêng" (literally "angel's hair") in Vietnamese. No significant difference between laboratory rats fed "Nostoc flagelliforme" and the control group was found in a study by Takenaka and coworkers. Fat choy Fat choy (; "Nostoc flagelliforme") is a terrestrial cyanobacterium (a