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If Professor Doctor Pizza was a pie, he would be a Neapolitan-style one, topped with buffalo mozzarella and spicy salami – like the one from Fiamma on The Peak

The man behind the popular Instagram page reveals why people don’t consider him a ‘real’ foodie, his scoring matrix and the pizzas that have surprised him

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Professor Doctor Pizza is an anonymous Swiss expat based in Hong Kong

Published: 12:45pm, 14 Jun 2022Updated: 1:04pm, 14 Jun 2022

The anonymous Swiss man who has reviewed more than 400 pizzas across Hong Kong on Instagram shares slices of his life, from his favourite local pies to his criteria for a perfect 10.

Your personality, encapsulated in a pizza?

“I would definitely be a pizza with a tomato sauce base, because I have a traditional core on the inside, gravitating towards stability, reliability, maybe with a touch of stubbornness. The number of toppings would be kept relatively small, because I put quality above quantity in everything I do.

“However, people who know me well are aware that I can be very contrasting: on the one side there’s the smooth and gentle buffalo mozzarella, but layered above – although in less quantity – there’s the spicy salami, teasing those who bite me, and sometimes even challenging their limits.

“The most important aspects that I focus on in my life are honesty, authenticity and warmth: so, there is no doubt that I would be a Neapolitan-style pizza overall.

“Actually, I found exactly this pizza in real life! It’s the Diavola pizza from Fiamma [on The Peak on Hong Kong Island]. And, of course, it got a 10/10.”

A pizza from Fiamma is rated as “totally worth it”. Photo: Professor Doctor Pizza

Who gets to be a real foodie?

“Pizza is the only dish that I feel truly connected with and it has never been an option for me to review anything else. It wasn’t a conscious choice to focus on it specifically, because pizza has been my favourite food all my life.