Japan for the Uninvited

It’s remarkably difficult to get a pizza in Japan without mayonnaise or sweetcorn on it. Apart from that, there’s a bewildering array of even more outlandish toppings

• asparagus
• bamboo shoots
• boiled eggs
• broccoli
• camembert
• cod roe (fish eggs)
• dried fish flakes
• eel
• egg yolk
• kimuchi (spicy Korean pickled leaf)
• nori (seaweed)
• octopus
• pickled ginger
• potatoes
• shiso (perilla leaves)
• shrimp
• spaghetti
• squash
• squid
• teriyaki chicken
• tuna
• zucchini

Further information

• Field Guide to Weird Japanese Pizza (8Bit Joystick.com)
  “Pizza parlors have gotten popular in Japan but the dish did not go over there without mutating into a bizarre cross cultural culinary explosion of funky flavors.”
• The Web’s First Japanese Pizza Page
  “Japanese pizza, in some guises, is truly an abomination for mankind.”
  
• Pizzas from the Dark Side
  “I swear that none of these are fictitious. All are 100% genuine promoted recipes.”
• Japanese Pizza (greggman.com)
  “You’ll have to trust me. This stuff is awesome. Actually many of them would be easy to make here.”
• Japanese Pizza
  “Eating a pizza at a pizza restaurant can give you insights into what the Japanese people think people in various countries eat as toppings.”