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,
Isaac Choy Isaac Choy Isaac W. Choy is an American politician and a Democratic member of the Hawaii House of Representatives since January 2009 representing District 23. Choy consecutively served from 2009 until 2013 in the District 24 seat. Choy earned his BS in business administration from San Jose State University. In 2017 Isaac Choy submitted legislation in the Hawaii House of Representatives to make "Flavobacterium akiainvivens" the state microbe. This was mirrored by Brian Taniguchi in the Hawaii Senate. This continues an effort started by James Tokioka in 2013, and later contested in 2014 by Senator Glenn Wakai's SB3124 bill proposing