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 […]
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.




