"Pizza" in China

[KennethT]

11 hours ago, liuzhou said:

This, I'm told, is described in store, but as usual not on the the delivery app. As "Supreme Pizza"!

 

I am struggling to think of anything that looks less like a 'supreme pizza' or supreme anything else!  They are clearly delusional.

 

 

 

What, do they claim, makes this pizza supreme over the others?  Are the toppings buried under that thick down comforter of cheese?

[liuzhou]

4 hours ago, KennethT said:

What, do they claim, makes this pizza supreme over the others?  Are the toppings buried under that thick down comforter of cheese?

 

I can only go by the customer's review which discloses the name they  give it. That person described it as a very simple pizza. 

 

I strongly suspect that the store just saw the English name somewhere without knowing what it meant and decided to use it. I've seen that happening before in other so-called 'western' restaurants.

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 05:38 PM by liuzhou (log)

[Tropicalsenior]

2 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

I've seen that happening before in other so-called 'western' restaurants.

That happens a lot here in Costa Rica. About 20 years back there was a pizza restaurant that opened in a little kiosk across the street. All the ever seem to have was ground beef, sauce and cheese despite showing about 20 items on their menu.

Their basic pizza wasn't really all that bad and we would request it with anchovies and they were always out. As we got to know them better we found out that they didn't even know what anchovies were. They had just taken somebody else's menu and copied it verbatim.

[blue_dolphin]

3 hours ago, KennethT said:

What, do they claim, makes this pizza supreme over the others? 

 

9 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

I strongly suspect that the the store just saw the English name somewhere without knowing what it meant and decided to use it.

“Supreme” seem to be a common pizza descriptor in the US so it's not surprising they co-opted it though they don’t seemed to have borrowed the usually generous list of toppings, unless, as @KennethT said, they’re under the cheese!

From a recipe on the Ooni pizza oven website:

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The name “supreme pizza” is a less-than-descriptive term. One could argue that supreme pizza has made enough of a name for itself that it doesn’t need to be informative – everyone knows that it’s got mushrooms, peppers, sausage, onions, pepperoni, cheese and tomato sauce. Except… DiGiorno has a version that includes olives, Pizza Hut’s has ground beef, Domino’s uses all of those ingredients but calls it Deluxe and our recipe here forgoes the sausage. 

While places started serving supreme pizzas in the early 1960s – Shakey’s, America’s first pizza franchise, served a Portland Supreme with salami and peppers, and an Oklahoma restaurant advertised a supreme pizza covered in meat – things didn’t begin to standardize until Pizza Hut got involved. The Hut’s “Pizza Supreme” debuted in the late 1960s and has stayed much the same since, inspiring pizza makers around the country to add a version to their menus. 

Some vegetables are more standard than others – expect to see bell peppers and mushrooms before you encounter spinach and banana peppers – and meats are usually pepperoni, sausage and bacon.

 

[liuzhou]

6 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:

They had just taken somebody else's menu and copied it verbatim.

 

Yes. Happens here a lot, too. Especially with steak restaurants. 

 

I have also encountered the permanently missing ingredients turning out to be something they'd never even seen. 

[liuzhou]

9 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

“Supreme” seem to be a common pizza descriptor in the US

 

Not only the US. Pretty much every pizza place in the UK features their version of a 'supreme'. It's usually just a mix of pretty much all the toppings they happen to carry.

 

The only thing hidden under that pile of cheese seems to be the pizza base.

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 05:25 PM by liuzhou (log)

[lindag]

My friends and I were vacationing in Costa Rica we located an outdoor restaurant that served pizza and stopped there for dinner.  

Unfortunately, while waiting for the pizza to arrive a nearby skunk sprayed.I don't remember the pizza but I do remember the smell.

[liuzhou]

The best pizza I’ve eaten in China was here in town. Many years ago, a Liuzhou native who had lived in S. Korea for many years, retired, sold his pizza shops in Korea and came home to spend his final years. As a hobby, he opened one pizzeria here in town. It was beautiful with an open kitchens where you could see him and his staff making then tossing pizza dough into perfect discs, adding mozzarella they made each morning and adding sensible toppings you would find in Italy. S. Korea knows good pizza.

 

 

Sadly few people went and, after struggling for a year, he gave up. The premises are now a baby clothes store.

 

A month or so later, Pizza Hut opened and people were lining up round the block to eat crap pizzas shipped in from Guangzhou, 500 km (311 miles away) away, and reheated. I wept.

 

Yesterday, I found this on a delivery listing. Seoul crispy fried chicken pizza! What it has that relates to Korea or Seoul in particular remains a mystery. Obligatory Kewpie squiggles, as usual. Not in Korea.

 

 

괜찮아요!!

 

 

Edited Thursday at 01:03 AM by liuzhou (log)

[Smithy]

58 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

 

괜찮아요!!

 

 

 

I'm kinda sorry I used a translation program for this. I'd expected something more colorful!

[liuzhou]

8 minutes ago, Smithy said:

 

I'm kinda sorry I used a translation program for this. I'd expected something more colorful!

 

You know I'm always super polite!

 

 

[Neely]

Thanks for this thread a really interesting read. 

[liuzhou]

Urgent Newsflash! Warning! Danger!

 

New is breaking that some deviant extra-terrestrial employed by Domino’s Pizza has decided that it would be a good idea to dump a chocolate lava cake onto what appears to be a pepperoni pizza! Available at branches in China! Obviously some terrorist plan to cause mayhem and chaos among the masses!

 

 

Fortunately for me, and the good decent people of Liuzhou, there are, as yet, no Domino’s outlets here in town. They are mainly only in the large cities, especially Shanghai.

 

Take suitable precautions! Biohazard suits are recommended for all humans and their pets.

 

P.S. I'm hoping those while things are cyanide pills to put the unwary out of their misery.

 

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Edited 7 hours ago by liuzhou (log)

[gulfporter]

31 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

 

 

 

 

 

Lemme see.  

 

Chocolate (check ☑️).  Marshmallows (check ☑️).  

 

Put it on a graham cracker crust and I'm all in. 

 

Can't believe no one's created a S'mores pizza before!

[blue_dolphin]

40 minutes ago, gulfporter said:

Can't believe no one's created a S'mores pizza before!

Oh, there are tons of them around here!

[chromedome]

1 hour ago, blue_dolphin said:

Oh, there are tons of them around here!

Yes, but do they plunk s'mores makings, volcano-style, on the middle of an otherwise-savory pizza?

 

(If so, I probably don't really want to know about it)

[blue_dolphin]

14 minutes ago, chromedome said:

Yes, but do they plunk s'mores makings, volcano-style, on the middle of an otherwise-savory pizza?

 

(If so, I probably don't really want to know about it)

No, they are dessert offerings. 
Even this one, from Taiwan, I believe, has bananas as a topping.

 

 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by blue_dolphin
To fix photo (log)

[liuzhou]

29 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

Even this one, from Taiwan, I believe, has bananas as a topping.

 

That one is from Domino's China, too. Fruit pizzas are not at all uncommon here. It was a limited edition for 七夕(qī xī), the QiXi festival, China's equivalent of Valentine's day, which was yesterday. The Chinese writing doesn't mention the banana, but it looks like that. It is no longer available. 

 

What stunned me most about the one I posted was the incongruity of the volcano* cake on a savoury pepperoni pizza. 

 

*The literal translation of the term they use.