Durian pizza anyone?

[Big Joe the Pro]

I thought that this was an interesting article about Pizza Hut in China trying out Durian fruit as a topping:

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/03/11/china-real-time-tries-pizza-huts-new-durian-pizza-so-you-dont-have-to/

 

[liuzhou]

There is nothing new about durian pizza in China. It has been popular for years. There is an independent pizza place about 500 metres from my home which has it, and I've seen it many other places..

 

It's foul. And I love durian.

 

Here is their menu.

[KennethT]

What's the "Popeye pizza"?  Does that have something to do with spinach, or Popeye's, the fried chicken chain?  Also, chicken granulocyte?

[liuzhou]

4 hours ago, KennethT said:

What's the "Popeye pizza"?  Does that have something to do with spinach, or Popeye's, the fried chicken chain?  Also, chicken granulocyte?

 

I've never had Popeye's pizza, but it seems to refer to Popeye of spinach fame. The Chinese name, 大力水手,  means "strong or energetic seaman" I'll ask next time I'm there, but I don't go often.

 

Chicken granulocyte is just a bad translation. They mean chicken granules, which sounds equally revolting. Mechanically recovered chicken, I shouldn't wonder.

 

[Big Joe the Pro]

   Durian pizza was something I never experienced in my 15+ years in Beijing, but it does say in the article that it is something that originated in Southern China.  Go figure, it is a tropical fruit! 

[liuzhou]

27 minutes ago, Big Joe the Pro said:

   Durian pizza was something I never experienced in my 15+ years in Beijing, but it does say in the article that it is something that originated in Southern China.  Go figure, it is a tropical fruit! 

 

Oddly, the first time I recall encountering durian pizza was in, erm, Beijing. About ten years ago out by the zoo somewhere. Must have been a refugee from the south.

 

All that said, the only decent pizza I've ever had anywhere in China was made by a man from S. Korea. It was up there with the Italians. And not a smelly fruit in sight.

And I wouldn't eat in Pizza Hut if they paid me.

Edited March 13, 2016 by liuzhou (log)

[Big Joe the Pro]

9 hours ago, liuzhou said:

 

And I wouldn't eat in Pizza Hut if they paid me.

 

   I used to eat there a couple times a month when I first hit town in the late nineties.  There weren't so many choices like there are today as I remember, and I hadn't yet gotten a decent apartment with an oven where I could make my own pizza.

   It was worth going to Pizza Hut to me and my friends just to watch the locals pile stuff on their plates at the one trip salad bar.  I'll never forget some of those people walking slowly back to their tables carrying those huge pyramids of very intricately stacked vegetables.  I wonder if they still do that.

[liuzhou]

2 hours ago, Big Joe the Pro said:

 

   I used to eat there a couple times a month when I first hit town in the late nineties.  There weren't so many choices like there are today as I remember, and I hadn't yet gotten a decent apartment with an oven where I could make my own pizza.

   It was worth going to Pizza Hut to me and my friends just to watch the locals pile stuff on their plates at the one trip salad bar.  I'll never forget some of those people walking slowly back to their tables carrying those huge pyramids of very intricately stacked vegetables.  I wonder if they still do that.

 

No. They stopped the salad bars a while back.It was getting too ridiculous, if amusing.

[Naftal]

And what is an "upgrade cheese pizza"?

[liuzhou]

2 minutes ago, Naftal said:

And what is an "upgrade cheese pizza"?

 

It just means "extra cheese".