Disgustingly Delicious (100th post!)

by Tokyo Terrace on September 15, 2009

  1. Roasted garlic
  2. Chopped tomatoes
  3. Deli style ham
  4. Squid
  5. Shrimp
  6. Basil
  7. Camembert cheese
  8. Black olives
  9. Mozzarella cheese
  10. Pancetta
  11. Onions
  12. Tomato sauce
  13. Crust

What is this, you may ask? A random grocery list? Oh no, my friends. The list above shows all the ingredients we found on our recent Domino’s Pizza this past Saturday night. IMG_3965

It was raining like crazy outside, I was battling a cold and Brad was being a sweet, attentive husband trying to take care of me. Dinner, therefore, was up to him. Before I knew it, we had a Domino’s delivery guy fully armed for the elements in head to toe rain gear handing over a piping hot cardboard box. Inside that box was what is called the Quattro Camembert Mille Feuille. Pardonnez-moi?

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We opened the pizza box to find the strangest pizza I have ever seen in my life. There is no possible way that I would ever dream up this combination of pizza toppings. Nor would I have thought to make a mille fuille style pizza. However, as you read in the title, it was disgustingly delicious.

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Every bite I took was like a tug of war. My head was saying, “You idiot! This is not meant to be eaten!” while my taste buds were saying, “This is the greatest pizza that has ever been!” Total confusion.

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The Japanese people do not particularly enjoy cheese. Apparently the flavor is somewhat of a problem for them. The Camembert here, however, is an obsession. Kids love it the way I used to love Fruit by the Foot. As a result of this distaste for cheese, the cheese manufacturers are always looking for ways to get the Japanese people to eat and buy more of it. Domino’s must be getting paid a boatload of yen to deliver this artery clogging, lactose intolerance inducing pizza.

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Basically, the pizza was made up like this, starting at the bottom:

  • crust
  • layer of melted Camembert cheese
  • crust
  • pizza sauce
  • cheese
  • insane toppings separated into four quadrants

Yep. That’s about it. Japan has given me the experience of eating the most unimaginable pizza ever. Domo arigatou.

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  • http://daydreamerdesserts.blogspot.com/ Daydreamer Desserts

    You’re hubby did a great with the dinner selection… feed a cold right? Love the name they chose for the pizza truly original “Quattro Camembert Mille Feuille” I would try it for the name alone. :)

    I think if you take a look at the toppings and kind of compare them to those in a Spanish paella it doesn’t sound to crazy anymore.

    Hope you are feeling better!

  • http://daydreamerdesserts.blogspot.com Daydreamer Desserts

    You’re hubby did a great with the dinner selection… feed a cold right? Love the name they chose for the pizza truly original “Quattro Camembert Mille Feuille” I would try it for the name alone. :)

    I think if you take a look at the toppings and kind of compare them to those in a Spanish paella it doesn’t sound to crazy anymore.

    Hope you are feeling better!

  • http://www.sense-serendipity.blogspot.com/ Divina

    Congratulations on your 100th post. I always love cheese on pizza. Lots of it.

  • http://www.sense-serendipity.blogspot.com Divina

    Congratulations on your 100th post. I always love cheese on pizza. Lots of it.

  • Astrida

    I don’t think I would be so brave to order such a pizza. :)

  • Astrida

    I don’t think I would be so brave to order such a pizza. :)

  • http://onefoodguy.blogspot.com Scott

    Wow, Dominos’ has world domination. I’ll tell you the Pizza Hut pizzas in India aren’t half bad. I’m definitely not a pizza chain kind of guy though. I do like the pizza from the shop by my house, independently owned, Greek (I think) style pizza.

    I do think you know by now, though, that I like to make my pizzas from scratch! Hope you’re feeling better.

  • http://onefoodguy.blogspot.com/ Scott

    Wow, Dominos’ has world domination. I’ll tell you the Pizza Hut pizzas in India aren’t half bad. I’m definitely not a pizza chain kind of guy though. I do like the pizza from the shop by my house, independently owned, Greek (I think) style pizza.

    I do think you know by now, though, that I like to make my pizzas from scratch! Hope you’re feeling better.

  • http://bonvivant.wordpress.com/ Danielle

    Congrats on your 100th post! The pizza sounds a tad like Surf & Turf meets French cuisine meets the Mediterranean, but it sure looks good!

  • http://bonvivant.wordpress.com/ Danielle

    Congrats on your 100th post! The pizza sounds a tad like Surf & Turf meets French cuisine meets the Mediterranean, but it sure looks good!

  • http://wasabiprime.blogspot.com/ wasabi prime

    Amazing toppings selection. The Camembert surprised me. I get that cheese in general wouldn’t be super popular, since I know a lot of Asians are born lactose intolerant — my cousins and I were all like that, but we eventually grew out of it. The mix of seafood with typically westernized flavors must be the perfect mix to attract the Japanese palate. It’s probably as unique to Americans as a California Roll is to the Japanese. Cheers to Domo-noes Pizza!

  • http://wasabiprime.blogspot.com wasabi prime

    Amazing toppings selection. The Camembert surprised me. I get that cheese in general wouldn’t be super popular, since I know a lot of Asians are born lactose intolerant — my cousins and I were all like that, but we eventually grew out of it. The mix of seafood with typically westernized flavors must be the perfect mix to attract the Japanese palate. It’s probably as unique to Americans as a California Roll is to the Japanese. Cheers to Domo-noes Pizza!

  • http://thesophisticatedgourmet.blogspot.com/ Kamran Siddiqi

    Congratulations on your 100th post! I feel like am the only “Asian” that is not lactose intolerant. I do have part chinese in me (plus the Indian/Pakistan part that still counts as Asian) and I don’t feel the intolerance yet! LOL.

    I would definitely love to try a slice of that pizza. I probably would be a bit hesitant about biting into it at first, but I’d probably be able to eat a whole pie by myself.

  • http://thesophisticatedgourmet.blogspot.com Kamran Siddiqi

    Congratulations on your 100th post! I feel like am the only “Asian” that is not lactose intolerant. I do have part chinese in me (plus the Indian/Pakistan part that still counts as Asian) and I don’t feel the intolerance yet! LOL.

    I would definitely love to try a slice of that pizza. I probably would be a bit hesitant about biting into it at first, but I’d probably be able to eat a whole pie by myself.

  • tokyoterrace

    Kamran: I’d feel thankful that your aren’t lactose intolerant! I would be so sad it I was…I love cheese way too much!

  • tokyoterrace

    Kamran: I’d feel thankful that your aren’t lactose intolerant! I would be so sad it I was…I love cheese way too much!

  • tokyoterrace

    Wasabi Prime: It was a crazy selection of toppings… I guess I didn’t really realize that many Asian people are lactose intolerant. It makes sense, with the lack of dairy in their diet. Sort of a good thing and a bad thing at the same time…

  • tokyoterrace

    Wasabi Prime: It was a crazy selection of toppings… I guess I didn’t really realize that many Asian people are lactose intolerant. It makes sense, with the lack of dairy in their diet. Sort of a good thing and a bad thing at the same time…

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