Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has proved himself to either be a big chicken or, more likely, above such bollocks as participating in a boxing match with Hong Kong-based chef Harlan Goldstein.
The aggressively don’t-give-a-shit Scot was called out by Hong Kong-based New Yorker Goldstein over social media earlier this month to don the gloves and show his steel against him in a boxing match for charity.
But what was widely assumed to be a pre-arranged publicity stunt seems to have fallen through, as Ramsay’s people have declined to even dignify the invitation with a response.
Goldstein, who is not doubt a little red-faced about the epic rejection, expressed his disappointment in a series of wonderfully crafted quotes bestowed upon the SCMP.
Our favourites include:
“He’s got a big mouth, but now I can see he’s only bark, bark, bark and no bite.”
“Who is this Ramsay guy, the Grinch that stole Christmas?”
“He might be chicken. I cook chicken.”
Good one, Goldie.
The bout was originally proposed by Goldstein’s Muay Thai trainer Alain Ngalani, who just happens to be a four-time world champion at Thailand’s national sport.
The idea was apparently in response to Ramsay opening his first Hong Kong restaurant Bread Street Kitchen in the same building of Goldstein’s signature eatery Gold. How very dare he?
Despite the plan collapsing like an undercooked soufflé, Goldstein, who said he wouldn’t challenge Ramsay to a cooking competition because it “would be too easy to win”, has promised to donate HKD100,00 to Little Sisters of the Poor, the charity that would have benefited from the event if it had gone ahead.
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