PrintKorean Shrimp Roll and Hot Dog Pizzas
Japan, I used to love you for your inventiveness—the way you took things from other cultures, tweaked them, and improved them.
But you're slippin', babe. That Double Roll pizza you came up with? So kinō.
Say annyong to two amazingly ostentatious pizzas that Pizza Hut South Korea has come up with (I don't know their names, so I'm just making them up here as I go along).
Videos of the Korean commercials, after the jump.
THE SHRIMP ROLL PIZZA
Japan's cocktail wieners baked into detachable mini rolls at the edge of a pizza really are nothing compared to Korea's whole shrimp with their little tails curled just so. Let's cut to the vid ...
Not enough for you? How 'bout ...
THE ROYAL CRUST PIZZA
I don't know much Korean beyond "hello" and "thank you," but I think I learned a new phrase after watching the following video: "Royal Crust." Which is what I think this pizza is called.
I'm not even sure if you can still get this specialty pizza in South Korea anymore, since it was a bit back in Pizza Hut Korea's video archives, but it whomps the socks off anything Pizza Hut Japan has come up with lately. I mean, would you rather have an itsy bitsy Vienna Sausage or a large, snappy, steamy one like this:
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10 Comments:
Someone please tell me what the chunky yellow dipping sauce is!
raphael at 6:23PM on 08/23/07
I am so glad I live in Indiana!
JEP at 6:48PM on 08/23/07
I need to go to Fornino tomorrow just to get those out of my head.
BrianPrestonCampbell at 7:11PM on 08/23/07
The yellow mystery sauce is a pickle mustard sauce!
jpark107 at 11:38PM on 08/23/07
Thanks, jpark107! Sounds kinda good, actually.
Adam Kuban at 11:59PM on 08/23/07
My friend Aimee reports: "You don't have to know Korean to get any of this. They make lots of jokes about the hot dog part, I think. What I hear is the same word for penis, which is the same word for chili pepper."
raphael at 12:33AM on 08/24/07
holy crap that is amazing.
yumsugar at 2:25AM on 08/24/07
woow. i love the "local" versions of "global" brands/products etc. This is interesting. When they launched this pizza in France (minus the shrimps)they plastered metro walls with huge posters...of pizzas that looked like tarantulas.
MariannaF at 6:32AM on 08/24/07
this is AMAZING!!
mufopho at 11:34AM on 08/24/07
Annyong!
Seriously, all these Asian Megapizzas we're seeing are starting to terrify me. What's next, lobster tail with foie gras-stuffed crust and a light covering of truffles?
...actually, never mind, I'd eat that.
Smylie at 12:30PM on 08/27/07