# Japanese pizza **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2009, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542 "2009-12-09T01:34:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/41 "2009-12-10T00:43:20Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > minor hijack to the japanese pizza folks .. > > Can’t you order the one that had the crust, marinara and cheese to leave off the mayo and other non american traditional stuff? Or do japanese places not do custom orders? > > Maybe you could convince them to make an americano … crust, marinara, cheese and maybe chunks of grilled chicken [do the japanese have a pepperoni type sausage?] In theory, yes, although most of the pizza you get here (Okinawa) is frozen, and not customizable. But you also need to be able to speak good enough Japanese to get that message across, which neither my husband or I do, unfortunately. English speakers are pretty rare here. I’ve never seen any type of sausage here that was not cut up hot dogs, so no on the pepperoni, and their marinara sauce is usually ketchup. The teriyaki chicken pizza we ordered didn’t say what was on it, so we just went with it. Like I said, it really wasn’t awful, just strange. Actually, one of the best pizzas we’ve gotten on island, now that I think of it. > [@Student\_Driver](#): > > What is kewpie-doll mayonnaise? It’s sweeter and more vinegar-y than normal mayo, and thinner. It does have a picture of a kewpie doll on the bottle. It’s pretty good, just an odd pizza topping. > [@norinew](#): > > The oddest pizza I ever had (but very, very good!) was a Maryland Seafood pizza at a little brick-oven pizza place/microbrewery in western Maryland (sadly, they went out of business. . .). Thin, crispy, brick-oven crust; covered (in place of marinara, which probably would have overpowered the seafood) with something like a thinned-out crab dip (combo of crab meat, cream cheese and spices), topped with tiny shrimp, an Italian 6-cheese blend, and topped finally with _fresh_ diced tomatoes _after_ it came out of the oven! Mmmmmmm. > > As a bonus, you could order, for $5.00, their “beer sampler”: 6 4oz glasses of whatever their featured micro-brews were that day! > > Hubby and I would go there on “Two-fer Tuesday”, when it was buy one pizza, get one free. This sounds so awesome. > [@even\_sven](#): > > One time, the (otherwise normal) pizza in my dining hall was inexplicably topped with crushed Oreos. This makes me laugh every time I read it. > [@ToeJam](#): > > Actually, the only time I went to Europe, I mistakenly ordered something similar thinking it was chicken. > > I got two slices of Tuna Pizza, and actually it was quite Divine. I’ve always wanted to go back and try to get some more of it. > It was I believe in Vatican City that I got the pizza- if there’s one thing those Vaticans know how to do… it’s Cafeteria style delicious Tuna Pizza. I’m not sure it’s possible to get bad food in Italy. The absolute best lasagna I’ve ever had in my life, by far, was at a truck stop in Italy. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/42 "2009-12-11T07:07:08Z")
I’m currently in France. Last night I saw (but didn’t actually eat) duck breast pizza. That was a new one. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/43 "2009-12-11T07:56:04Z")
> [@ToeJam](#): > > Actually, the only time I went to Europe, I mistakenly ordered something similar thinking it was chicken. > > I got two slices of Tuna Pizza, and actually it was quite Divine. I’ve always wanted to go back and try to get some more of it. > It was I believe in Vatican City that I got the pizza- if there’s one thing those Vaticans know how to do… it’s Cafeteria style delicious Tuna Pizza. Maybe you would like my [_Tonnato ala Pizzaiola_](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11864277&postcount=15)? ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/44 "2009-12-11T08:26:39Z")
You know, Tonnato pizzaiola would make a great pizza- A thin crust marinara base sprinkled with fresh garlic and parsey, slices of fresh tuna, roasted red peppers from a jar, thin red onion slices, calamata olives, anchovies (in reserved quantities), Drizzle with olive oil… maybe a sheep’s milk grated romano to sprinkle lightly. Top with a mixture of crushed red pepper and oregonata to finish. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/45 "2009-12-11T22:20:35Z")
> [@Renee](#): > > We went out for pizza last night. We’ve done this a few times before, here on Okinawa, never the same place twice, if that tells you anything. We went to a new pizza place, which specializes in American style pizza. The options were some variation on sausage pizza (“sausage” is code for hot dog here), potato and mushroom (which actually sounded kind of good) and chicken teriyaki. We ordered a the chicken teriyaki. > > It came with marinara sauce, cheese, teriyaki chicken, canned mushrooms, corn, mayonnaise (the kewpie doll kind, squeezed liberally in a cris-cross pattern across the whole pizza), and was topped with shredded nori (seaweed). The crust was one of those standard frozen pizza crusts. > > Officially the oddest pizza I’ve ever eaten. It wasn’t exactly bad, just very strange. > > What’s the weirdest/worst pizza you’ve ever had? Ahh! Okonomiyaki style. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/46 "2009-12-11T22:37:45Z")
> [@Renee](#): > > It came with marinara sauce, cheese, teriyaki chicken, canned mushrooms, corn, mayonnaise (the kewpie doll kind, squeezed liberally in a cris-cross pattern across the whole pizza), and was topped with shredded nori (seaweed). The crust was one of those standard frozen pizza crusts. This sounds like most pizzas I ever had in Korea, except that the white mayo was joined with similar stripes of Thousand Island dressing and the potato was a ring of mashed sweet potato just inside the crust edge. Blecch. The best, most “American” pizza I could find in Korea (outside of Itaewon, which is basically “Americatown” in Seoul) ranked with the best frozen pizza Safeway sells. Gotta develop a taste for Kimchi! I haven’t yet tried pizza in Japan, but I understand squid ink is available as a substitute for tomato sauce. Hey, it beats mayo and thousand island dressing! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/47 "2009-12-11T23:27:47Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > To be fair, I stole that horrible concept from someone else in the Lutefisk thread. You stole it from me, pilgrim. Prepare to dine on that product! ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/48 "2009-12-12T00:20:14Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > You stole it from me,\*\* pilgrim\*\*. Prepare to **dine** on that product! Bolding mine. You may have solved the mystery of the Roanoke Colony. They may have brought over Lutefisk to try to survive. The posts in this thread brings out the naive business man in me. Me thinks any half decent chef could establish a nice business over there offering some decent pizza that was remotely “authentic”. ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/49 "2009-12-12T01:56:59Z")
> [@TokyoPlayer](#): > > With Domino’s and Pizza Hut here now, the concept of pizza is reasonably similar to the US, but the toppings can be different. The [teriyaki pizza](http://www.dominos.jp/order/pizza/detail/99999/19001/102)is similar to what the OP describes. I haven’t tried their “[Whip and Berry](http://www.dominos.jp/order/pizza/detail/99999/19001/739)” yet, though. A medium pizza costs the equivalent of **31 freakin’ dollars.** :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/50 "2009-12-12T02:38:03Z")
> [@Vito's Pizza](#): > > Tony Packo Pizza – made with Tony Packo’s Hot Dog Sauce, sliced Tony Packo’s Hungarian Sausage, cheddar & mozzarella cheeses, red onions, and topped with mustard. Served with your choice of Tony Packo’s Original Pickles and Peppers or Sweet Hots. I have never in my life had a Tony Packo’s hot dog, _heard_ of Tony Packo’s, or even _been_ to the state of Ohio. And that sounds delicious to me. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542/51 "2009-12-12T02:44:52Z")
In Curaçao I had a conch pizza. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-pizza/520542.md?page=2)