Napa cabbage when used as food. The Japanese name for this specific variety of cabbage is hakusai (), a Sino-Japanese reading of the Chinese name "báicài" (), literally "white vegetable". The Korean name for napa cabbage, baechu (), is a nativized word from the Sino-Korean reading, "baekchae", of the same Chinese character sets. Today in Mandarin Chinese, napa cabbage is known as dàbáicài (), literally "big white vegetable", as opposed to the "small white vegetable" that is known in English as bok choy. Outside of Asia, this vegetable is also referred to as Chinese cabbage. Regionally, it is also known as sui
La Choy Henson created a series of television commercials from 1965-1967 featuring a Full-Bodied Muppet character called Delbert the La Choy Dragon (performed by Frank Oz and voiced by Jim Henson) which used the catchphrase "quick cooked in dragon fire" to describe the product. Delbert was accompanied in later commercials by a timid character named Mert (performed by Jim Henson). Delbert was one of Frank Oz's few Full-Bodied Muppet performances since Frank Oz didn't like performing in the costumes for the Full-Bodied Muppets. La Choy La Choy (stylized La Choy 東) is a brand name of canned and prepackaged American Chinese food