Pizza with abalone sauce, shiitake mushrooms and cheese taste test: Buddha Jumps Over the Wall Lunar New Year special launched by Pizza Hut
- A classic Chinese soup’s luxurious ingredients spread over pizza dough – how does that work? Surprisingly well, two foodies who tried the Pizza Hut pie find
- A dried-seafood entrepreneur helped the chain develop the pizza topped with sea cucumber, abalone sauce, ham and shiitake. Pizza Hut Taiwan offer their own
Fast food chain Pizza Hut has created a limited-edition pizza for Hong Kong diners.
Just in time for Lunar New Year, it has teamed up with a Hong Kong dried-seafood brand to present the famous soup “Buddha Jumps Over the Wall” in pizza form.
Dating back to China’s Ming dynasty, the soup gets its name from a monk who walked by a home where someone was making a fragrant soup that smelled so good, he couldn’t resist and jumped over the wall to eat it.
The pizza features similar ingredients to the classic Chinese soup – the toppings include fish maw, sea cucumber, Yunnan ham, imitation shark’s fin, shiitake mushrooms, chicken and abalone sauce with mozzarella cheese.
The Post enlisted the help of two foodies, Chan Chun-wai, a food writer and radio host, and blogger Gary Suen, for a taste test at Pizza Hut in Kennedy Town on January 27, the day of the pie’s launch.