Elevated & Unique Recipes
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 […]
Recipe Video The Corn Season Recipe I Make Every Single Year Every summer, the moment good sweet corn shows up, I make this. It has become as much a part of corn season for me as eating it off the cob. It’s one of those recipes that takes something already […]
Recipe Video Salted Caramel’s More Interesting Cousin Bánh flan is one of those Vietnamese desserts that exists because of colonialism. French crème caramel arrived in Vietnam during the colonial period and Vietnamese cooks did what Vietnamese cooks always do; they kept what worked, adjusted what didn’t, and made it their […]
Recipe Video The Most Refreshing Thing I Ate in Chengdu I was in Chengdu, wandering through a market on a sweltering summer afternoon, when I spotted a vendor cutting something translucent and wobbly into thick, slippery strips and tossing them in a sauce the color of deep crimson. I joined […]
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.
