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 […]
Author: Patrick Kong
Thai-Style Crab Curry
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, […]
Taiwanese Grilled Street Corn
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 […]
Sichuan Shredded Potatoes (酸辣土豆丝)
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 […]
Cold Corn Soba
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 […]
Corn Kakiage (Japanese-Style Corn Fritters)
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 […]
