Gordon Ramsay Attacks Food Critic Who Slams His Inauthentic 'Asian Eating House'

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Spoiler alert: "Authentic" Asian Cuisine when even the chefs were not East Asian.

Hui wrote in a review for Eater last Thursday that the preview was “nothing if not a real life Ramsay kitchen nightmare.” There “appeared to be some confusion over the particular source of inspiration for Lucky Cat,” she noted, adding images from a related Instagram Story in which she asked whether the restaurant claimed to be Japanese or Chinese.

“It’s all asian who cares,” Hui sarcastically wrote.

In another snarky line in the Eater review, she pointed out that the chef had served “Smoked duck breast with plumb [sic] (note: it appeared with that spelling on the menu) and nashi (Japanese pear).”

She also wrote that she was the sole East Asian person in a room filled with dozens of journalists and chefs.
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Lucky Cat had already drawn criticism when Ramsay announced in February that it would be opening. Many questioned Ramsay’s claim to bring “authentic” Asian cuisine to the restaurant’s London neighborhood when it didn’t even have an Asian chef at the helm. And others pointed out that the restaurant’s description as an “Asian eating house” lumped together many diverse cultures, presenting the food of billions of Asians as monolithic.