Pizza Hut Japan Debuts A New Matcha Pizza – Foodbeast
Photo: Pizza Hut Japan
Photo: Pizza Hut Japan
Photo: Pizza Hut Japan
Japan’s love for matcha simply took a wild flip—now it is available in pizza kind.
According to SoraNews24, Pizza Hut Japan has teamed up with Kyoto’s historic tea store Gion Tsujiri (based in 1860!) to launch its first-ever Japanese-style candy pizza: the Handy Melts Matcha Shiratama Kuromitsu. And sure, the identify is as important because the pizza itself.
The “Handy Melt” isn’t your typical inexperienced tea dessert. Pizza dough will get infused with Gion Tsujiri matcha, then topped with wealthy matcha paste, chewy shiratama rice dumplings, mozzarella and cream cheese, and completed with a drizzle of kuromitsu syrup for a sweet-but-not-too-sweet kick. It’s a mashup of Japanese and Western flavors that in some way works, completely timed for tsukimi, Japan’s moon-viewing season—the white shiratama evoking the complete moon.
You can snag the Handy Melt alone for 790 yen (~$5.38 USD supply, 550 yen takeout), or add it to a particular pizza set for 395 yen on prime of the pizza’s 2,195 yen worth. But act quick: each can be found in restricted portions by October 26, whereas provides final.
Pizza Hut Japan can also be operating a giveaway: 30 fortunate winners can rating a set of Gion Tsujiri single-use tea baggage by following and interesting with Pizza Hut’s Twitter or Instagram posts between September 1–10.
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