Pizza Hut, famous throughout the world for its famous recipes, partnered with a renowned restaurant in Hong Kong to create a pizza with a very special ingredient: snake.
Pizza carries meat snake, is accompanied by black mushrooms and Chinese dried hambasic ingredients of food Hong Kong and after the announcement, the image has been widely disseminated on social networks.
The recipe was made possible through a partnership with the Ser Wong Fun restaurant, which specializes in snakes and whose origin dates back to 1895.
Eating snake is very common in the East
In many parts of Hong Kong and South China it is common to eat snake meatit is regularly consumed in stew during the winter months, and some usually have breeding sites for these reptiles for consumption.
Additionally, people believe that they have medicinal properties, for example, meat It is considered very nutritious and is thought to be able to stimulate blood pressure.
The pizza measures 22 centimeters, has at the base abalone sauce instead of the traditional tomato and can be purchased from November 22 at Hong Kong.
But what does it taste like? A CNN reporter took on the task of trying the pizza and said she found it Texture was similar to dried chicken and tastes like fish with other types of seafood.
The snakes used are of the species Chinese rat, banded kraits and white banded snakes.
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Likewise, the company has more flavors and new ideas in mind. In a few months a pizza with preserved Chinese sausages will be available. In addition, it is not the first time that the American company experiments with recipes, Pizza Hut Taiwan created a recipe that durian, curdled pork blood and preserved eggs, which are local ingredients; Meanwhile in Japan exists pizza with pork bone soup (Tonkotsu ramen).