10/30/2002: Japanese attempt pizza

[juju]

I've made shrimp pizzas for people at work. I've also made pizzas with no cheese. Then there's the pinapple, ham, and jalapeno pizza.

Some people, i'll never understand.

[Undertoad]

Aw yeah, splice, 100% agreed!

[Cochese]

Originally posted by MaggieL
I always thought "japanese pizza" referred to okonomiyaki

Maggie, I've had okonomiyaki, it's not especially pizza-like at all (flat != pizza). Tastes more like a warm salad.

[elSicomoro]

Originally posted by Cochese
I live in St. Louis now, and there's a similar concoction, a slinger. Spaghetti noodles over 2 scrambled eggs over 2 cooked cheeseburger patties, all of it covered in chili. Yummy!

Sounds like a slinger to me, though it's been ages since I've had one.

What part of town Cochese? I'm originally from there (south city).

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by Cochese

Maggie, I've had okonomiyaki, it's not especially pizza-like at all (flat != pizza). Tastes more like a warm salad.

From what I've heard about it there's quite a bit of variety to okonomiyaki. This makes sense since the word is translated as "cook whatver you like"...probably analogous to the US phrase "garbage pizza". And if your idea of pizza includes a leavened dough, I can see why you wouldn't call okonomiyaki pizza-like.

My point was that what this "world's first Japanese pizza web page" is actually describing come on very much like okonomiyaki....and that's probably why it's not really tuned into US ideas of what pizza should be. They're not trying to imitate yankee style so much, although the pictures do look like a leavened wheat dough was used.

And it's certainly *not* the first okonomiyaki web page, nor even the first web page to call it "japanese pizza". Fans of Ukyou from Ranma 1/2 have been calling it that for ages., although they describe it as more of a pancake.

My lifepartner Gwen, who hails from Chicago, swears that we don't really make pizza here in Philly anyway. She's learned to love calzone, though. I prefer stromboli.

<i>okonomiyaki
(n): pizza-like pancake fried with various ingredients</i>

[elSicomoro]

Originally posted by MaggieL
My lifepartner Gwen, who hails from Chicago, swears that we don't really make pizza here in Philly anyway. She's learned to love calzone, though. I prefer stromboli.

She's right. Chicago or NYC for deep dish. St. Louis for thin crust.

[jeni]

while working at pizza hut, i made our dishwasher eat (or rather dared him to, that guy would eat anything) a pizza i made.

a personal pan pizza, with alfredo sauce instead of pizza sauce, then cheese, lettuce, and more cheese. YES. i cooked the lettuce. ew. but he said it was good. i think i took a bite and it wasn't so bad, because save the lettuce it was pretty much a white pizza. but still, cooked lettuce. ew.

[Griff]

Pizza Hut cold chill down spine anything other than thin crust is a sin against God and man.

[chrisinhouston]

Wait, there's more!

Check out http://www.strawberrycones.com/ca_france.html
It looks like it has shrimp, some kind of chunks of fish, mushrooms what looks like large half melted pieces of brie and everyone's favorite, mayonaise!

And then there is the Crape Station (do you think they meant crepe?) http://www.pizza-station.co.jp/italian/index.html

You can check out the snazy new uniforms over at http://www.hotweb.or.jp/pizza104/english/welcome.html

If memory serves me cheese is not typical in the Japanese diet.

[wolf]

Originally posted by Cam
I always find non-tradition pizzas are always interesting. I have a couple friends who work at Papa Johns and they used the new buffalo sauce that they have for the new chicken strips as the sauce. Then put chicken and cheese on top, It was delicious.
Squid Ink on the other hand, I'm not sure anyone could get me to try that.

Main Street Pizza (Home of the Big Slice, which is also an experience not to be missed) in Norristown, PA has a Buffalo Chicken gourmet deep dish pie that ROCKS. They also do a chicken cordon bleu that is beyond awesome (with hollandaise sauce rather than tomato sauce ... DROOL).