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- at restaurants: usually not greasy at all since only a couple of slices of fresh mozarella are used. Definitely not thought of as junk food.
- at Kebab shops (3am on a weekend): Ah, the good old corn and ham combo. Disgustingly greasy and already sitting there for a couple of hours. Junk food at its best.
Asia has some pretty intense pizza... Pizza Hut is thought of as an upscale restaurant and pizzas can cost well over 100 yuan. For comparative purposes, a family sized plate of noodles at an equivalent Chinese restaurant is probably 20-30.
The cheaper options resemble typical North American style pizzas with a medium thickness crust, sauce, processed mozzarella, and meat or veggies, but the more expensive specialty pizzas are insane. Some have the crust at the end of each slice molded into a little bowl, filled with butter and garlic, with a prawn in them... stuff like that. If you look up "Asian pizza" on google you'll see what it looks like.
I've had some awesome gourmet/traditional Italian pizzas and also had aome that just plain sucked... bland, boring, overpriced. I'll go so far as to say that despite my time in gourmet dining and kitchens, I generally prefer a decent medium crust pizza with real cheese and good sauce, Chicago deep dish, or an NYC/Boston street pizza, to "authentic" Italian style pizzas, so long as they're made with real, fresh, quality ingredients. Authentic is not synonymous with better!
I'm pretty sure everyone is already familiar with the United States, so I'm not going to bother.
Here in Chile, it pretty much ranges. There is the Pizza Hut and Papa Johns. Another one here is called telepizza, it's your standard overpriced chain and you can get all the typical toppings.
Another place I really like to eat is a restaurant that serves thin crust pizza, but you can also load the toppings on and they have a list of about 25 different toppings you can choose. 3 is included in the price and any more is an extra 50 cents or dollar. The other pizza place in the area is like that also. That's Valparaiso. I haven't found a decent pizza place here in Viña del Mar.
Asia has some pretty intense pizza... Pizza Hut is thought of as an upscale restaurant and pizzas can cost well over 100 yuan. For comparative purposes, a family sized plate of noodles at an equivalent Chinese restaurant is probably 20-30.
I ordered a large supreme stuffed crust here about 3 months ago without checking the price first.. boy was I upset. I paid 35 dollars for a pizza and that wasn't including the 2 liter I ordered.
Never again... never again.
These foreigners need to learn that Pizza Hut and Mcdonalds are supposed to be cheap!
I ordered a large supreme stuffed crust here about 3 months ago without checking the price first.. boy was I upset. I paid 35 dollars for a pizza and that wasn't including the 2 liter I ordered.
Never again... never again.
These foreigners need to learn that Pizza Hut and Mcdonalds are supposed to be cheap!
People here are always surprised to hear that pizza hut is considered cheapo pizza in the US. I tell them it's mostly delivery and the restaurants often date back to the 80's and look it... or its just combined with a KFC and is equally greasy and sleazy.
The pizza here is generally terrible, at least if New York or Chicago are the standards by which it is judged.
There is no equivalent of the culinary culture of carefully nuanced pizza-making like you you have in those cities. It's regarded as low grade, cheap, cheerful fast food on a par with McDonald's.
People here are always surprised to hear that pizza hut is considered cheapo pizza in the US. I tell them it's mostly delivery and the restaurants often date back to the 80's and look it... or its just combined with a KFC and is equally greasy and sleazy.
But then, yeah... KFC is upscale here, too.
Its exactly the same in South Korea as far as american name brand pizzas (Pizza Hut, Dominos etc) are concerned you are looking at $25 to $35 a pizza, though you can get non name branded local product for about $6 per pizza.
Its exactly the same in South Korea as far as american name brand pizzas (Pizza Hut, Dominos etc) are concerned you are looking at $25 to $35 a pizza, though you can get non name branded local product for about $6 per pizza.
Yeah, here most locally-owned pizza restaurants are modeled after Pizza Hut's model, meaning they are fairly close in price and niceness. I've been to a couple, and the prices aren't far off... maybe 5 yuan (less than $1 USD) less simply because they don't have the brand recognition and it helps to undercut a bit.
There are also places co-owned and operated by Europeans, Americans, or Turkish who offer pizzas on their menus. in China, foreign foods are lumped together much like Asian foods are in the West, so it's common to see a pizza in the menu at an Irish pub
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