Welcome to Yves Kitchen. My name is Bonnie Yves.
I cook and write from my tenement home kitchen in Edinburgh.

This is a quiet place shaped by everyday cooking, slow living, and life between cultures — live in Scotland, and deeply influenced by my Thai heritage and birthplace, Hong Kong.

Yves Kitchen began many years ago as a way to make sense of life through food.

What started with jam-making and home cooking gradually became a language of its own — one that helped me navigate change, distance, and the feeling of being between places.

Over time, I learned that home is not defined by where we are from, but by where we allow ourselves to live fully.

Cooking and writing became how I stayed grounded, especially while moving across countries, languages, and identities.

Today, Yves Kitchen is not a studio or a brand in the traditional sense.

It is simply my home kitchen — where I cook with local Scottish ingredients, guided by flavours shaped by Hong Kong and Thailand, and where stories unfold naturally alongside recipes.

The food here is unhurried and instinctive.Some recipes carry memories. Others are shaped by the seasons outside my window. All of them reflect a way of living that values patience, care, and belonging.

If you are drawn to slow living, quiet kitchens, and food shaped by more than one culture, you are very welcome here.

Bonnie xx