Created in partnership with Toyota Cory Ng didn’t move to Chinatown to open a restaurant. He grew up there. His parents poured everything they had into that neighborhood. When he and his friends decided to open Potluck Club in June 2022, they weren’t making a calculated real estate play—they were staying put in the only neighborhood that ever felt like theirs. Videos by VICE On paper, Potluck Club is a modern Cantonese-American restaurant. The build-out looks like nothing else on the block, the food leans into classics without being reverent about them, and the energy inside feels less like a restaurant and more like a long dinner with people who actually like each other—because most of them do. Ng and his partners have known each other for over fifteen years. That’s not a staff, that’s a crew. “We’re planting our flag deeper into the ground in Chinatown,” Ng says. “We’re taking a stance. We’re representing who we are and bringing it into the future.” He means that literally.…