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Gordon's odyssey begins in the north, home of our curry house classics.

Gordon's got a taste for adventure and heads off the tourist track into impenetrable north-east India, home of the country's best-kept culinary secrets. Leaving the 21st century behind, he immerses himself in the life of a local meat-loving tribe in Nagaland.

Gordon heads south to the coasts of Kerala for the ultimate seafood curry. In Tamil Nadu he hits a meat-free zone and faces his biggest culinary nightmare, living in an ashram where the only food on the menu is vegetarian.

Gordon touches down in Vietnam - he's never been here before but this nation are fearless foodies; if it moves they eat it and every bit of it!

In Ep 2 Gordon is going off the beaten track to Cambodia. After the years of Khmer Rouge rule and civil war the country was at year zero. Today the country is in recovery and the food is undergoing a revival. Gordon scours the country hunting out historic recipes that pre-date the Khmer Rouge rules.

In Ep 3 Gordon is in Malaysia where he quickly learns it's the women and not the chefs that rule the kitchens. Gordon's week is spent under the wing of some of the country's best female cooks. He's invited to cook his first Malaysian curry.

In Ep 4 Gordon is in Thailand, home of the UK's fasted growing favourite food. Before he's made it out of Bangkok Thailand's most celebrated TV Chefs signs Gordon up to a battle of the chefs on his TV show at the end of the week.

Tonight Gordon's cookery course continues, as he shares his perfect TV dinners. Recipes include delicious mushroom and leek pasta, stunning sweetcorn fritters with yoghurt dip plus Gordon shares his top tips for buying pasta.

Tonight Gordon's cookery course continues, as he teaches us how to cook for special occasions. Recipes include stuffed lamb with spinach and pine nuts, Vietnamese-style fresh prawn rolls and a sumptuous whole sea bass stuffed with fennel, lemon and capers.

Gordon teaches you how to get started cooking amazing food with confidence. Recipes include delicious pork chops with sweet and sour peppers, pan-fried scallops with crunchy apple salad and a tip that will help you keep your knives sharp.

Gordon teaches us how to cook with chilli. Recipes include red mullet with sweet chilli sauce, classic jerk chicken and a super simple spicy beef salad.

Gordon's cookery course continues, as he shows us how to make his ultimate food on a budget. Recipes include flavourful sausage rice, roasted mackerel with garlic and paprika and unforgettable lamb with fried bread.

Gordon's cookery course tackles stress free cooking. Recipes include sticky pork ribs, a spicy chutney and an amazing chilli chicken with ginger and coriander that just gets better and better with time.

Gordon's cookery course continues shows us how to make real fast food. Recipes include his smoky pork sliders with homemade BBQ sauce, chicken stir-fry with rice noodles, and a fast noodle soup with poached egg and spring onions.

Tonight Gordon turns his focus to home baking. Recipes include his flavour-packed olive, tomato and rosemary focaccia, quick flatbreads with lemon, thyme and ricotta and a spectacular sponge with fresh ginger.

Tonight Gordon shows us how to make the ultimate slow cooked dishes. Recipes include caramelised figs with ricotta, phenomenal slow-cooked beef short ribs and melting beef brisket.

Tonight Gordon's cookery course continues, as he teaches us to cook some of his ultimate brunches. Recipes include his irresistible spicy pancakes, a simple and delicious frittata and a fool-proof cheat's soufflé with 3 cheeses.

After sifting through over 12,000 nominations made by the public, Gordon presents his two finest local British restaurants, The West House in Kent and The Milestone in Sheffield

La Garrigue in Edinburgh takes on Winteringham Fields near the Humber Bridge in the French category.

Small outlet, Azou in Hammersmith faces celebrated eaterie, Momo in London's West End in the best North African restaurant category.

After sifting through over 12,000 nominations, Gordon presents his two finest Italian restaurants: Mennula, a traditional Sicilian restaurant in London and Casamia, an innovative restaurant in Bristol

Gordon pits Prashad, a tiny Indian vegetarian restaurant from Bradford, against one of the biggest establishments in London: The Brilliant in Southall

Gordon presents his two best Chinese restaurants, Kai, based in London's Mayfair, and Yu & You, a family-run outfit in Blackburn

This first semifinal features Gordon's best Italian, Thai, Spanish, and Chinese restaurants, all battling it out for a place in the prestigious grand finale.

Fino in Central London faces El Pirata Detapas in Notting Hill in the Spanish category. And then it's the first semi final in this double length episode.

The second semifinal features Gordon's best British, French, Indian, and North African restaurants.

It's the final, as the restaurant competition reaches boiling point.

The finalists in the Thai restaurant category are Nahm Jim from Scotland and London's Mango Tree. Sparks fly as the restaurants bid to be best of the best.

When 21 year old chef Tim sold "fine dining" to Bonapartes bistro, they assumed he could cook. Ramsay discovers the true skills of the wannabe TV chef when he tastes his food and vomits in the gutter.

At The Glass House in Ambleside, Ramsay finds the restaurant owner close to tears as yet another Saturday night goes tits up. The head chef has a lot to explain as Ramsay decides he's the weak link.

Ramsay's got his work cut out to restore the reputation of The Walnut Tree Inn in Wales. When he arrives he finds the owner chef-less and broke and desperate to get the place back on it's feet.

Moore Place in Esher looks more like a rest home than a restaurant so it's no wonder the dining room's empty. Owners Nick and Richard are relying on Ramsay to fill it with customers on Mother's Day.

La Lanterna in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. Twenty-eight-year-old owner and head chef Alex offers modern Italian cuisine, a taste of Little Italy in England's first garden city, and the restaurant is run by his best mate maitre d Gavin, helped by his ex-air hostess girlfriend Emily.

The venue for tonight's second programme is D-Place in Chelmsford, Essex run by Mexican-born Israel and his English partner Tara. They've sunk ~£150,000 of their own money into their trendy cafe bar which offers a vast selection of fusion cuisine.

The venue for tonight is Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack, an intimate forty-seater a stone's throw from Brighton's sea front. Big soul momma, owner Charita Jones, produces a menu of irresistibly unique classics from the Deep South.

The venue for tonight is La Riviera, a fine dining restaurant in Inverness. Owned by multi-millionaire Barry Larson and costing £8000 a week to run, the place boasts top French chef Loic Lefebvre and an impeccably-trained kitchen staff with Michelin star-studded backgrounds.

Saturday night at The Glass House Restaurant in Ambleside was a disaster. Orders in the kitchen were mixed up, the food wasn't cooked properly and the customers were complaining. Not only was the chef in tears, but the owners were on the brink of bankruptcy.

The Walnut Tree Inn was in big trouble - there was no head chef, the customers had dwindled, and the owner had been forced to sell the family home to keep the business afloat.

Nick and Richard are self-confessed restaurant virgins. They've both had successful careers in the brewery business so when they bought Moore Place they believed they could make it an instant success.

The episode that has gone down in TV history. Tim Gray was the 21 year-old Head Chef at Bonaparte's in Silsden, West Yorkshire. Claiming to specialise in "fine dining", he had ambitions to be a TV chef and dreamed of opening restaurants in London, Paris and New York.