‘Top Chef’ Winner Buddha Lo on What’s Next for Him (EXCLUSIVE)

Instead of inspiring his dessert course off of his wife, Rebekah Pedler whom he cooked “Marry Me Pasta” for in an earlier episode, he picked a quintessential Thanksgiving dessert to show his gratitude.

“A lot of people would kill to be on this show. The fact that I’m not even from America and that I was able to come to the country, and not only work, but also enter Top Chef and win it, I had to do something that was more thankful,” Buddha added. “I wanted to say thanks.”