Elevated & Unique Recipes
Recipe Video The Best Thing You Can Do With a Can of Tuna I eat a lot of canned tuna. It’s cheap, it’s high protein, and it’s one of the most versatile pantry staples you can keep on hand. But most people default to the same two or three preparations […]
Recipe Video The Turkish Dish That Makes the Onion the Star There’s a moment in Turkish cooking where the most humble ingredient becomes the most important one. Soฤan Dolmasฤฑ is that moment. Stuffed dishes (dolma) are one of the cornerstones of Turkish and broader Middle Eastern cuisine. Most people are […]
Recipe Video Char Siu Is a Technique, Not Just a Meat Most people think of char siu as Cantonese BBQ pork. That sticky, lacquered, crimson-edged roast pork hanging in the window of every Chinese BBQ shop. And while that’s the most iconic expression of it, char siu is really something […]
Recipe Video ๐ The Crispiest Fried Chicken You’ll Ever Make โ And Why Vodka Is the Secret I’ve fried a lot of chicken. Buttermilk brined, double dredged, pressure fried, air fried. I’ve tried most of it. And while all of those methods have their place, nothing has produced a crust […]
Recipe Video The High-Protein Freezer Meal I Wish I Had Sooner If you grew up eating Filipino breakfast, you know corned beef pandesal. Soft, pillowy bread rolls stuffed with garlicky, rendered corned beef and red onion. It’s one of those combinations that just makes sense. Warm, savory, filling, and gone […]
Recipe Video The Fusion Cuisine That Doesn’t Get Enough Credit If you asked me to name my favorite fusion cuisine in the world, I wouldn’t say Japanese-Italian or French-Vietnamese. I’d say Indo-Chinese. Indo-Chinese cuisine is exactly what it sounds like: the result of Chinese immigrants settling in India, specifically Kolkata, […]
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.
