This summer, we’ve been seeing some, well let’s call them…unorthodox pizzas in Japan. In June there was Pizza Hut Japan’s Weiner Coffee Pizza, and earlier this month we got our hands, and mouths, on Domino’s Pizza Japan’s Pickles Pizza.
But Nagoya-based chain Aoki’s Pizza, which also has branches in Aichi, Gifu, and Mie Prefectures, isn’t about to get out-weirded by the bigger chains. Aoki’s is, after all, the company that brought us such wonders as the 18-meat Meat Mountain pizza sandwich and the horror-themed Bloody Zombino pizza. Their latest creation?
The Ice Cream Fondue Pizza
Aoki’s describes it as a “summer adventure pizza,” and you’ll have to have an adventurous palate to try it. The uniquely shaped crust forms a raised crater in the center, which serves as a vessel for vanilla ice cream that you dip your slice of pizza into, similar to plunking morsels of food into a fondue pot.
The provided vanilla ice cream is from Haagen-Dazs, so you can expect a rich, quality cream. The Ice Cream Fondue Pizza also comes with maple syrup and chocolate sauce, if you want even more sweet sensations to tickle your taste buds.
What makes the Ice Cream Fondue Pizza especially strange, though, is that while it’s the sweet elements that set it apart, it’s not a pure dessert pizza. Before you dip the slices in ice cream or drizzle syrup/sauce on them, they just have the classic ingredients of mozzarella cheese pepperoni, and sliced mushrooms. So yes, with the Ice Cream Fondue Pizza, Aoki’s is proposing that you get mushroom, pork, and ice cream in your mouth all at the same time.
The Ice Cream Fondue Pizza is available in limited quantities for a limited time, and only in medium size, priced at 2,380 yen.
It’s worth noting that you get the Haagen-Dazs ice cream in its own separate tub, so that you can pour it into the “fondue” area just before you start eating. That also means that you could use other ice cream flavors is you’d prefer, say, a matcha or Popping Shower-flavor Ice Cream Fondue Pizza. Alternatively, you could fill the crater up with melted cheese for a more traditional-style “fondue.” Heck, fill it with curry roux and eat the pizza like it’s nan bread, if that’s what you’re in the mood for.
That’s the great thing about eating something as crazy and unprecedented as an Ice Cream Fondue Pizza: No one can tell you you’re eating it the wrong way.
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餓死鬼
I can see this possibly working. Sweet and savoury can go well together e.g. honey cheese naan (with or without curry).
Norm
At first glance, it looks like something I’d never even consider. But I thought the same thing about ham & pineapple pizza back in the 80’s, and the Domino’s Pickles Pizza last month. I was wrong about both.
Me, too — the sweet and savory combination makes sense. Someone at Pizza Hut obviously tries these things before they unleash it on the general public, so it can’t be bad. Anybody going to give it a go?
(But take care! I have it on good authority that eating too much of this kind of thing can lead to obesity, diabetes, and an early death.)
餓死鬼
I would but I don’t really want to go all the way to Aichi for it. We were counting on you, Norm!
I guess I could just order a Domino’s Deluxe or something and pour some ice cream on it (close enough).
falseflagsteve
Norm
Glad to see another person realising the health hazards associated with eating this. It’s the type of combo that teenagers wouldn’t together too impress their chums. An absolute culinary abomination you see
Christopher Mas Osan
Gross.
wallace
I could enjoy those.
Burning Bush
Me too
餓死鬼
In the name of junk food science, I dedicated a couple slices of Domino's Deluxe (pepperoni, Italian sausage, mushrooms, green peppers, onions, tomato sauce) and a small tub of vanilla Häagen-Dazs to find out just what the oddity above might taste like. And....it was pretty good.
smithinjapan
Nope.
Mark
NOT ME, BUT My Dog would love to get a hold of this, vanilla ice is his favorite with cheese and Pep. ? OMG he will take the shinkansen all the way to this place ALONE I bet.
Norm
餓死鬼,
Well done! It’s good to try most things before passing judgment.
I remember each time I was introduced to many different seemingly unorthodox dishes, and usually balked at trying them, but for social reasons ended up having a taste.
The list is long, but it includes mentaiko spaghetti, its cousin tarako spaghetti, Domino’s Seafood Pizza (with seaweed!), matcha ice cream, and too many others to list.
I only skimmed this article, so at first I thought it was from Pizza Hut. For me, too, the nearest Aoki’s is quite far. (I’m in Osaka city.) So I’ll wait for the funky things I can get closer to home.