Napa cabbage

Yeah.

And I bought this beautiful head of Napa cabbage.

It looked like from the cabbage patch kids.

Like I was like, oh my God, I just need this.

How long did you leave it sit? How long do you keep it?

This one will be seven days.

They said with Napa to check it in five, but I had a crazy weekend and it looks okay.

So I'm going to check it today.

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Interesting you mention this, because Chinese cabbage

is very famous, very well known.

It's very important to a lot of people.

In northern China, it's called da bai cai.

It's probably the only fresh vegetable you can find for the entire winter season in places like Beijing, Tianjin, and Manchuria area, northeast.

I mean, so people stockpile this Chinese cabbage as they stockpile like wood or fuel for the winter.

So it is a very important stable for people.

We're not, the show's not wrapping up yet, so it could be time as well.

And then there's also, I think it was some other, what are some other ones? Uh, La La Land, Napa Cabbage, What is Napa cabbage? It's cabbage from Napa, I guess.

All right, figured that.

Nice of the grapes.

Napa

grapes, Napa cabbage.

It doesn't give you a definition.

It

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