Meaning
A leafy Chinese cabbage with crisp white stalks and dark-green leaves, long naturalised in Jamaican kitchens through the island's Chinese heritage. Pak choi is steamed, stir-fried, or dropped into soup, and shows up alongside callaloo and cabbage as an everyday cooked green.
Examples
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Steam di pak choi wid likkle garlic.
Steam the pak choi with a little garlic.
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Buy some pak choi fi di stir fry.
Buy some pak choi for the stir fry.
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Pak choi cook down nice an quick.
Pak choi cooks down nice and quick.
Origin
From Cantonese 'baak choi' (white vegetable); part of Jamaica's Chinese culinary heritage. See [[callaloo]], [[chocho]].
How it’s used
Chinese cabbage (bok choy); an everyday cooked green. See [[callaloo]], [[chocho]].