Gordon Ramsay Can't Make Authentic Pad Thai

From Delish

Second only to his beef Wellington, Gordon Ramsay is best-known for serving up insults. On Twitter, TV shows, restaurants. No one is safe. Ramsay usually escapes without hearing any retaliation - or so we thought. A brave soul recently took to Twitter to prove otherwise.

It's a clip from an episode of Ramsay's old show, The F Word, in which he travels to a Thai temple in London to cook for Buddhist monks. But first, he meets with a chef at one of England's most revered Thai restaurants to see if his food is up to snuff. Spoiler alert: It was not.

"This is a dish I love cooking at home," Ramsay says as he whips up a "quick and easy" pad Thai for Chang, the chef, to taste. He says it's got at all the integral ingredients to make Thailand's sweet and sour national dish. Chang seems happy as he looks on at Ramsay cooking.

But then comes the taste test: "Before you can call it pad Thai, I have to test it first," Chang says. Initially he looks at Ramsay with a blank stare - then he gets to dishing out insults. His delivery is a tad nicer than Ramsay's, but he still curls his upper lip, grunts, and admits, "This is not pad Thai at all. Pad thai has to be sweet sour and salty." In an attempt to redeem himself, Ramsay claps back, saying, "I think that doesn't taste too bad." But it's Chang who gets the final word: "For you but not for me."

How's that feel, Ramsay?

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