Elevated & Unique Recipes
Recipe Video The Salad That Came From the Worst Restaurant I Ever Worked At The first restaurant I ever worked at was not a good restaurant. Pre-made components, reheated proteins, shortcuts taken at almost every stage of the menu. It was not the kind of place that taught you to […]
Recipe Video The Greatest Flavor-to-Effort Ratio of Any Corn Dish I Know I have eaten a lot of corn dishes. I have also spent a lot of time thinking about the ratio between how much effort a dish requires and how good it actually tastes. And when it comes to […]
Recipe Video The Two-Minute Crab Dish Worth Every Second of Prep There is a category of Thai street food that barely gets mentioned outside of Thailand:The seafood stall. Not the pad thai cart, not the som tum vendor, but the open-air seafood restaurants and street-side stalls that serve whole crabs, […]
Recipe Video 🌽 The Corn That Has Lived Rent-Free in My Head for Over a Decade I haven’t been to Taiwan in over ten years. But if you asked me right now to describe exactly what this corn tastes like, I could do it without hesitating. The char. The paste […]
Recipe Video China Eats 101 Pounds of Potatoes Per Person Per Year. Here’s Why. That statistic stopped me the first time I read it. 101 pounds. Per person. Per year. The average Chinese person eats more than twice as many potatoes as the average American, which is remarkable given that […]
Recipe Video 🌽 A Love Letter to Corn Season Summer has a flavor and for me, it’s sweet corn. Not corn as a side dish, not corn as a garnish, but corn as the entire point. The kind of corn that’s so sweet and fresh it barely needs anything done […]
I’m 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 good… 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.
