At Patois in Toronto, Jerk chicken chow mein, pork belly yakisoba, and more dishes from chef Wong’s youth “I came from the world of fine dining, French cuisine, working in three-Michelin-starred restaurants, and I learned a ton of techniques,” says Patois chef Craig Wong. “I think it’s hilarious that they would be snobby towards our use of things like Ritz crackers. It’s delicious.” Wong is referencing his prosperity jerk lobster dish, one of the many dishes at the Toronto restaurant that riffs on the ingredients and flavors he recalls from his youth, growing up in a Chinese family and community in Jamaica. “Chinese people go way back in Jamaica, there’s generations and generations of us there,” says Wong. “When we first opened, people had no idea this culture much less this cuisine existed.” Chef de Cuisine Nicholas Beckford is Wong’s “right hand,” as well as a skillful chef when it comes to rubbing down whole chickens with a jerk rub, skewering them, and smoking them f...