{"id":1889,"date":"2014-12-31T04:34:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T10:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2015-01-01T10:51:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:51:48","slug":"how-to-chop-napa-cabbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/?p=1889","title":{"rendered":"How to Chop Napa Cabbage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa051.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1890 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa051-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"Chop Napa Cabbage\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa051-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa051-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa051-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa051-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa051-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa021.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1893 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa021-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"Chop Napa Cabbage\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa021-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa021-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa021-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa021-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa021-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>When I cook napa, I normally separate napa leaves and the white since they require different cooking time.<\/p>\n<p>Napa leaves are easy to chop, most of the time, I don&#8217;t chop, I just tear them into pieces with fingers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa031.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1892 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa031-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"Chop Napa Cabbage\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa031-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa031-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa031-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa031-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa031-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>To chop the white part, I normally lean the knife with an angle to chop, this way, when you chop it, it can thin the white part at same time.<\/p>\n<p>When cooking, always cook the white part first, then cook the leaves, so they can be done at same time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa041.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1891 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa041-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chop Napa Cabbage\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa041-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa041-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa041-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa041-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa041-900x675.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; When I cook napa, I normally separate napa leaves and the white since they require different cooking time. Napa leaves are easy to chop, most of the time, I don&#8217;t chop, I just tear them into pieces with fingers. To chop the white part, I normally lean the knife with an angle to chop, this way, when you chop it, it can thin the white part at same time. When cooking, always cook the white part first, then cook the leaves, so they can be done at same time. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[119],"tags":[69],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/napa051.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5xEw8-ut","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mamalee.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}