A Little About Me:
- Digital Storyteller & Content Creator by design.
- Brand Consultant & Freelance Writer by trade.
- Uncertified Mom Practitioner by life experience.
- Aspiring Food Critic by appetite.
- Verbose Canadian living in Hong Kong.
- Not a girl, not yet a woman. (Just a little lady becoming comfortable in her own shoes).
This is my digital playground. Consider it a cozy corner of the internet for honest stories, branding strategy, and really good food. Make yourselves at home!
My Story
WHO IS VICKY NG?
I am a Chinese Canadian, currently living in Hong Kong with my 2 young sons.
I am a freelance writer who enjoys bringing out the personalities in companies and telling their stories. My passion is food, being creative, and telling stories.6 Things You Should Know About Me:
- My Mom is a Buddhist Monk. (Yes, really. Ask me about it.)
- Our home is a beautiful, loud collision of cultures. My kids are half Indian, my nannies are Filipino, and I’m Chinese-Canadian. It’s our little mini UN at home, just the way we love and embrace it.
- My son can read more Chinese than me. (I’m working on it…)
- I am a die-hard Swiftie (minus the clowning, I swear).
- I find washing dishes therapeutic. It’s the only time my hands are busy and my brain can just drift.
- I am a freelance writer bringing company stories to life.
Want the juicier stuff? I save my best, unfiltered stories for the Secret Uncertified Club. Come peek behind the curtain.
JOIN THE CLUBThe Secret Creative Timeline
Before the Condé Nast writer dream, there was the stage. Music and performance are my deepest hidden passions, even if almost nobody in my current adult life knows it. (Well, until now).
As Long As I Can Remember
I wanted to act. For me, storytelling started with wanting to embody characters and tell human stories through performance.
The Triple-Threat Discovery
I discovered I could sing and dance, too. I started dancing hours a day, losing myself in the rhythm. But coming from a traditional Chinese household, the arts weren’t seen as a “real” career. So, I followed the practical script and went to business school.
The Pivot
I climbed the corporate ladder, but felt unfulfilled. That creative itch never went away. I finally decided to listen to my passions and apply to dance school—but then life shifted beautifully, and I got pregnant with my first son.
Connecting the Dots
I realized something huge: I never lost those passions. I still incorporate music through my everyday life, and I express storytelling through everything else—my content, my videos, and my business. It’s all connected.
Uncertified Eats
When I was a child, I dreamed of being a food and travel critic for Condé Nast magazine. It was the kind of job that felt like a fantasy—a time when the internet was just a baby, social media hadn’t been born yet, and those roles were reserved for a selected few.
So, I did what was expected: I gave up on the dream.
But the passion never actually left me. Food became my cathartic vice, whether I was watching it, trying it, cooking it, or using it as my primary love language. My family started asking me to taste-test their dishes before serving, and friends who owned restaurants began bringing me their new menus to see what needed a final tweak.
Then one day, after hearing my mom tease me about my childhood dream, a good friend turned to me and asked the question that changed everything: “Vicky, this is clearly your passion. Why don’t you just do it?”
And slowly, Uncertified Eats was born.
But Why Uncertified?
Living in such a competitive world, we are constantly comparing and competing—trying to get into the best companies, attending the best schools, or getting the most followers. And that made me feel super insecure!
Have you ever felt inadequate? Because that’s how I felt for many years. I spent most of my teens and 20s faking it.
When I became a Mom, it all became too much! I watched all those perfect Moms in their perfect Pinterest-looking homes, perfectly parenting their perfect little babies, all the while my house looked ransacked and I was covered in poop.
That was the moment I decided to embrace the mess that was my life. I decided to stop comparing and competing and to tell the world: I am NOT a certified Mom. I have no certification or educational background on being a mom, and that’s okay.
Because the irony is… none of us are!
Sometimes you just have to embrace it and do it, poop and all.
So Uncertified Mom came to be, then Uncertified Vicky, and the Uncertified world. It is a reminder that we should take the time to embrace being a little imperfect and a little uncertified.
(Unless you’re trying to be a doctor… don’t do that if you aren’t certified. No. Bad.)
But doctors, lawyers, and other professionals aside, I invite you to embrace a bit of the shit that is life and celebrate the hot mess that we are sometimes! Because sometimes, getting a little (or a lot) lost during a trip can bring the best memories of a journey.
Love You!
*in my best Gossip Girl voice*
xoxo,
Vicky out!
Still here? Ok then let's go on an adventure!
Like Neo from The Matrix, you have a choice to make. Which path will you take?
May the force be forever in your favour... or should I say, flavour?
*in my best Gossip Girl voice*
xoxo, Vicky out!