At a convenience store In Japan, you've got a window full of rice balls in flavors ranging from pickled plum to spicy pollack roe, skewered beef guts or fish cakes simmered in broth, or—a relative newcomer to the snacking scene—Chinese mandou-style buns, commonly called simply man in Japan. The usual suspects are there—pork, cabbage, mushroom—but this time I was interested in the single neon-orange specimen with the intriguing name pizza-man. This, I thought to myself, has the potential to stagger me with its genius. More

The "China Town" slice at Pizza 8 in Flushing's New World Mall food court is topped with Cantonese roasted pork, Taiwanese sausage, fried onion, green pepper, basil, and mozzarella. None of those things on their own are horrible. And in fact, some of them (the cha siu and the Taiwanese sausage) are AWESOME. More

Sometimes I think it's enough to show you all a picture and simply write, This exists. So, friends, This tempura pizza at Sake Bar Hagi exists. More

See, I love cheeseburgers and I LOVE pizza.* Why not mix the best elements of both while paying very, very careful attention to quality and detail? All the chain pizzerias that have failed in this quest just haven't been careful enough, I thought. More

San Lucas Pizzeria all sorts of amazing Italian-American-Mexican-South Philly fusion. This is the kind of stuff I really go nuts for. The Al Pastor slice was the highlight. More

Other popular pizzas that fill my Italian friends with fear are the "filet of beef and bearnaise sauce" pizza, which is just what it sounds like, and the "Pizza Africana", which usually includes peanuts, bananas, chicken and curry powder, lots of curry powder. More

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So the big question you may have* is whether "Girl Slice" and I ate pizza while we were in France. Yes and no. If you consider flammekueche pizza (Adam from the Past talked about this stuff last week), then, yes, we ate pizza. More

[Photograph: Mikey K.] This entry would have been perfect for Fusion Pizza Week last week on Slice. Señor Mikey K. says: Hey Adam, attached is a photo of my latest homemade creation, Pizza Mexicana. I'm a lover of two things in this world: Pizza and Mexican food, and this pie was my ultimate fantasy.The dough is my own homemade recipe. I use Pillsbury Bread Flour, salt, fresh yeast that I get from a Polish bakery nearby, and, of course, NYC tap water. I let it rise for an hour at room temperature and then move it to the fridge... More

Coletta's Italian Restaurant is supposedly the place where barbecue pizza was invented. It was also claims to be the oldest restaurant in Memphis, dating back to 1923, when it introduced pizza to the city in the 1950s, and was Elvis Presley's favorite pizza. I don't doubt any of the claims. Apparently when Coletta's started serving pizza, locals had no idea what it was or how to eat it. Only when they decided to top it with something a bit more familiar did the pizza take off. More