Pizza Salvatore Cuomo (2005-10-15)
Got a pizza ad in the mail slot the other day. Normally I'd ignore it because I only like Pizza Hut's. But I glanced at the back of the circular and caught the faces of two well-known chefs in Tokyo, one an Italian and the other Japanese, both run a successful Italian restaurant in town. Their pizza, only made with ingredients imported from Italy, and cooked in a stone oven is touted to be as authentic an Italian pizza as one can get in Tokyo.So now they've joined forces and do
delivery of their famous pizza, huh? We've got to try!
We ordered a Margherita (tomato sauce, cheese and basil) and a
Calabrese (tomato sauce, cheese, eggplants, olives, anchovies and
capers). Well, when they arrived, the Calabrese looked yummy
enough, but the sauce on the Margherita was overflowing
dangerously. The delivery man must have tipped the pizza on his
way and a lot of the sauce spilled out over the rim of part of the
pizza and got everywhere. The sauce-soaked pizza rim became
sodden.
The wedge of pizza that's supposed to stand proudly in your hand
with long strings of melted cheese trailing when pulled from the round
was nowhere to be found. The pizza we got tasted alright but the
base was just too soft for my liking. The thin dough covered with
the abundant sauce was wet and limp. I couldn't hold it up to eat
it. Folding each floppy wedge lengthwise and eating it like a
roll-up
was not fun, and the copious sauce that ran down the fingers didn't
help. The rim (pizza bone) without the sauce was extremely chewy. It's like
rubber! (not that I've eaten rubber) What did they put in
it, gum? It's quite a struggle to swallow a mouthful of that dry
weird bread. None of the pizza we ate in Italy had rubbery rim
and soggy base.
KL is not a picky eater and none of my whining about the soggy chewy
pizza was felt by him. He was enjoying them just fine. But
he did think they were a bit too pricey. With LESS money, we
could've gotten two large CRISPY super supreme
Pizza Hut pizza loaded
with toppings.
I will never order from Salvatore again, I really really don't like soggy food that much, and I absolutely draw the line at expensive soggy food.
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