SCRIPT: Hong Kong’s pizza chefs get creative...with mixed results
- SCMP’s Jude Law and Chieu Luu chowed down some of the city’s trendiest pizzas to find out if they are indeed slice-worthy
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[1] Chieu: Hi, I’m Chieu from the South China Morning Post. And I’m very excited today. I have a very special guest. Ladies and gentlemen, Jude Law!
[2] Jude Law: Hey, Chieu.
[3] Chieu: Now, just for the record, Jude – your parents named you Jude Law.
[4] Jude Law: That’s right.
[5] Chieu: I’ve never met anybody who doesn’t like pizza. But in Hong Kong, some pizza toppings are a bit … peculiar.
[6] Jude Law: Yeah, sometimes we can get a little bit creative and we put whatever is trendy on top of the pizza.
[7] Chieu: And here we have some salted egg pizza. I think the salted egg is actually in the crust.
[8] Jude Law: Ahhh. So this is it, right?
[9] Chieu: Yeah, I think. I taste it. The salted egg is on the bottom of the crust here. What do you think?
[10] Jude Law: I feel they’ve used the salted egg very lightly and it doesn’t really blend into the pizza.
[11] Jude Law: So Chieu, here is one of the most popular pizzas in Hong Kong.
[12] Chieu: Which is?
[13] Jude Law: It’s got Thousand Island sauce with tuna and pepper … and pineapple, of course.
[14] Chieu: That sounds … disgusting.
[15] Chieu: Let’s try it. My Italian friend Federica would be horribly offended.
[16] Jude Law: Totally not my thing.
[17] Chieu: There’s been an age-old debate about whether pineapple belongs on a pizza. Certainly, tuna and Thousand Island dressing don’t.
[18] Chieu: Now, this might actually be a combination of flavours that might actually be tasty. Korean bulgogi beef pizza.
[19] Jude Law: Soy sauce. I taste it immediately.
[20] Chieu: It definitely tastes like bulgogi.
[21] Jude Law: People said beef and onion do well together. But definitely not on pizza.
[22] Chieu: Again, I’m not sure if this works in pizza form. But of the three we’ve tried today, this is probably the least offensive.
[23] Chieu: Okay, I’m done. Alright, points to the chefs for creativity, but none of these combinations really worked for me. What about you?
[24] Jude Law: Not for me either.
[25] Chieu: But that shouldn’t discourage you from giving this and other pizzas a try. Happy eating.
[26] Jude Law: Happy eating.
[27] Chieu: [singing] Hey Jude, that pizza’s bad. Adding tuna didn’t make it better.