Like snap peas (sugar snap peas) when you eat snow peas you eat the pea pods whole, so preparation of fresh snow peas is just as easy as preparing fresh snap peas. Unlike snap peas, however, snow peas don't really have much to speak of in the actual 'pea' department, so they are flatter and a lot different in a meal than a snap pea. Properly cooked snow peas also have a more crunchy texture than properly cooked snap peas. Snap peas are somewhat like wood ears in texture, in fact.
Snow Peas
You probably want to string your snow peas. String your snow peas just as you string your snap peas. Because snow peas are so much thinner than snow peas, you'll want to add them into your wok much later than you would add snap peas. Normally snow peas get added as the second to last ingredient just before the jumbo prawns themselves in our jumbo prawn wok recipes.