Elevated & Unique Recipes
Recipe Video Two Elite Corn Dishes. One Obvious Idea I Should Have Had Sooner. I make corn kakiage every corn season. It has been a staple of my summer cooking for years, light tempura batter, fresh sweet corn, fried until shatteringly crispy with those signature scraggly, lacy edges. It is […]
Recipe Video The Summer Sandwich That’s Earning a Permanent Spot on My Roster There are sandwiches you make once and forget about. And then there are sandwiches that immediately get added to the permanent rotation. This is the second kind. The harissa chicken sandwich has everything a summer sandwich needs […]
Recipe Video The Chimichurri Modification That Just Makes Sense Chimichurri is already one of the great condiments in the world. Fresh herbs, sharp vinegar, garlic, olive oil, and enough acidity to cut through the richest piece of beef you can put in front of it. It is simple, it is […]
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, […]
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.
