baby Chinese cabbage; wawasai cabbage
A small variety of Chinese cabbage, often used in salads, stir-fries, and hot pot. The name comes from Chinese wáwacài.
from Chinese wáwacài
See also: 白菜
Baby Chinese cabbage is sweet and delicious in salads.
I added baby Chinese cabbage to the hot pot and simmered it.
Mixed kanji-kana spelling; less common but still seen.
Alternate kanji form using 娃娃; lists a katakana reading ワワサイ for this form, but the hiragana reading is also valid.
From Chinese 娃娃菜 (wáwacài), literally 'baby cabbage'. The Japanese reading わわさい is a direct adaptation of the Chinese pronunciation.