Elevated & Unique Recipes
Recipe Video The Sichuan Classic That Belongs in Your Weekly Rotation There is a specific kind of hunger that hits when you get home late, you’re tired, and you still want to eat something that actually tastes like you tried. Not delivery. Not instant noodles. Something real, something hot, something […]
Recipe Video The Dish I Make for People Who Don’t Like Mushrooms Everyone has that one friend. The one who insists they don’t like mushrooms. Who picks them out of everything, orders dishes without them, and makes a face when you mention you’re cooking with them. This is the dish […]
Recipe Video A Dish You Should Make When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking There are days when cooking feels like the last thing you want to do. Not because you don’t care about food, but because life gets in the way and the idea of standing over a stove for […]
Recipe Video The Country Where I’ve Never Had a Bad Meal I’ve eaten my way through a lot of countries. And while every place has something worth eating, Turkey stands alone as the one destination where I have genuinely never had a disappointing meal. Not once. Street food, sit-down restaurants, […]
Recipe Video The Meal Prep That Started It All โ Upgraded If you’ve been following along for a while, you know about Human Kibble. It was the meal prep recipe that changed how I approach food entirely: A single batch of nutrient-dense, high-protein food that could carry me through an […]
Recipe Video The Taco That Disappears Before You Can Plate It There’s a category of food that exists purely for sharing, the kind of thing you put on a table and watch vanish before you’ve even had a chance to sit down. Tacos dorados de camarรณn are exactly that. Warmer […]
Iโm Patrick Kong (AKA Patty.Plates) and I was born in Vancouver, Canada to Chinese immigrant parents. My father was a Guangzhou city boy, and my mom a village girl from Toisan. Both my parents have been cooking their entire lives - my dad even owned a small food court restaurant at one point (it was NOT goodโฆ sorry dad). My dad mainly saw food as a means of sustenance (both literally and economically) while my mom saw food as the glue that held our family together and connected us with the motherland.
