Only available in Japan, Pizza hut has a super pizza in Japan called the “mega” pizza. This pizza features cheese rolls, bacon, ham, sausage, mushroom, onion, garlic, tomato sauce, pepper, hamburgers with a crust made of hot dogs, bacon and melted cheese. You can top it with either ketchup or maple syrup. We’re wondering the same thing you are – do people actually eat this stuff?!

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 4:12 am Have you seen a "fusion-pizza" to top this ? Add your most exotic or bizarre pizza experiences here.
This is a Cambodian fish curry pizza (with prahok!) :

Num banh chok pizza a new fusion hit
Pan Simala | Publication date 05 July 2022 | 20:23 ICT

Pizza 4P's Cambodia says its num banh chok pizza is proving popular at its Preah Sisowath Quay location in Phnom Penh. SUPPLIED
Num banh chok is a traditional fish curry with fermented rice noodles, prahok fish paste, kroeung paste, flowering plants and seasonal vegetables that is arguably a strong contender for “national dish” status in Cambodia and typically served for breakfast or eaten as an afternoon snack.

Now you can enjoy its colourful assortment of tropical vegetables flavoured with just a hint of prahok in the globally beloved form of pizza, thanks to some innovative culinary fusion from the kitchen of Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City-based eatery Pizza 4P's.

The yellow sauce on the num banh chok pizza – used in place of the usual red tomato sauce – takes its inspiration from kroeung, the yellow herb and spice paste widely used in Cambodian cooking.

The pizza also makes use of the flowering plants and freshwater fish typically found in num banh chok, including flavourful layers of water celery, basil, water mimosa, banana blossoms, water hyacinths and sesbania flowers.

All of those ingredients are combined with crunchy peanuts and a creamy in-house produced cheese that brings a unique harmony to their fusion-style pizza, which they serve up daily at Riverside’s Preah Sisowath Square.

Kayuza Kubota, the country director of Pizza 4P's Cambodia, says that the idea for the num banh chok pizza was in development long before the opening of their restaurant about one year ago.

“I asked my Khmer friends – what are the best traditional comfort foods eaten by Cambodians? And from several options we choose num banh chok to turn into a pizza. We then spent around two months taste-testing our recipe and adjusting the ingredients,” Kubota tells The Post.

“Using a pizza crust as the base instead of noodles but still including the yellow kroeung, prahok, freshwater fish, coconut milk, Cambodian herbs and plants like water hyacinth are what will remind people of the traditional dish, but then we also add things like our in-house made mozzarella cheese,” he said.

However, the challenge was finding the right balance between the traditional Cambodian ingredients and expectations about how pizzas are made.

They were helped along by the fact that – even though it is an iconic western dish that originated in Italy – pizza is now found everywhere and in a multitude of varieties, making it a perfect vehicle for fusion experiments like Pizza 4P’s offerings.

“Out of respect for Cambodian culture, we didn’t want to change the original taste and ingredients too much, but we did need to think in terms of matching those together with pizza dough and cheese,” Kubota says.

“For example, prahok has a very strong taste that those who aren’t familiar with it have to adapt to first, but we boil it down a little to mellow it some before we use it in the pizza sauce and this small adjustment helps a lot,” he says.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle ... fusion-hit

cabron wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 4:30 pm

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Mon Jul 18, 2022 4:12 am Have you seen a "fusion-pizza" to top this ? Add your most exotic or bizarre pizza experiences here.
This is a Cambodian fish curry pizza (with prahok!) :

Num banh chok pizza a new fusion hit
Pan Simala | Publication date 05 July 2022 | 20:23 ICT

Pizza 4P's Cambodia says its num banh chok pizza is proving popular at its Preah Sisowath Quay location in Phnom Penh. SUPPLIED
Num banh chok is a traditional fish curry with fermented rice noodles, prahok fish paste, kroeung paste, flowering plants and seasonal vegetables that is arguably a strong contender for “national dish” status in Cambodia and typically served for breakfast or eaten as an afternoon snack.

Now you can enjoy its colourful assortment of tropical vegetables flavoured with just a hint of prahok in the globally beloved form of pizza, thanks to some innovative culinary fusion from the kitchen of Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City-based eatery Pizza 4P's.

The yellow sauce on the num banh chok pizza – used in place of the usual red tomato sauce – takes its inspiration from kroeung, the yellow herb and spice paste widely used in Cambodian cooking.

The pizza also makes use of the flowering plants and freshwater fish typically found in num banh chok, including flavourful layers of water celery, basil, water mimosa, banana blossoms, water hyacinths and sesbania flowers.

All of those ingredients are combined with crunchy peanuts and a creamy in-house produced cheese that brings a unique harmony to their fusion-style pizza, which they serve up daily at Riverside’s Preah Sisowath Square.

Kayuza Kubota, the country director of Pizza 4P's Cambodia, says that the idea for the num banh chok pizza was in development long before the opening of their restaurant about one year ago.

“I asked my Khmer friends – what are the best traditional comfort foods eaten by Cambodians? And from several options we choose num banh chok to turn into a pizza. We then spent around two months taste-testing our recipe and adjusting the ingredients,” Kubota tells The Post.

“Using a pizza crust as the base instead of noodles but still including the yellow kroeung, prahok, freshwater fish, coconut milk, Cambodian herbs and plants like water hyacinth are what will remind people of the traditional dish, but then we also add things like our in-house made mozzarella cheese,” he said.

However, the challenge was finding the right balance between the traditional Cambodian ingredients and expectations about how pizzas are made.

They were helped along by the fact that – even though it is an iconic western dish that originated in Italy – pizza is now found everywhere and in a multitude of varieties, making it a perfect vehicle for fusion experiments like Pizza 4P’s offerings.

“Out of respect for Cambodian culture, we didn’t want to change the original taste and ingredients too much, but we did need to think in terms of matching those together with pizza dough and cheese,” Kubota says.

“For example, prahok has a very strong taste that those who aren’t familiar with it have to adapt to first, but we boil it down a little to mellow it some before we use it in the pizza sauce and this small adjustment helps a lot,” he says.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle ... fusion-hit

Please stop, I will be sick in my stomach.