Fortune Bags Pizza

It's Lunar New Year in Singapore. Pizza Hut wanted on the New Year bandwagon, so they came up with one of the most bizarre and unappetizing pizzas I've ever seen. It's called the Fortune Bags Pizza, which isn't a particularly appetizing name either (mmm...bags). It sounds like quite the hodgepodge of flavors. According to the Pizza Hut website, in addition to the "money bags" the pizza is topped with "oriental sauce, diced BBQ chicken, sliced mushrooms, pineapple chunks, and capped with a sprinkling of chicken floss." Of course. Can't have pineapple chunks with a sprinkling of chicken floss. And what is IN those money bags?! They're so gross and mysterious.

It just looks so chewy
Image from http://www.pizzahut.com.sg/

7 Cheese Pizza SOUNDS Normal....right?

Not this one.  Pizza Hut in SE Asia is a bit notorious for concocting some seriously unusual stuff, and their latest creation is no exception.  The Cheesy 7 pizza seems fine when you hear about it- seven different kinds of cheese?!?!  You can't go wrong with that!  But apparently you can.  Take a look.  WHAT ARE THOSE GIANT PING PONG BALLS, you ask?  Oh, they're cream cheese, of course.  Because cream cheese is a perfectly natural thing to include on a cheese pizza.  It's like they decided to make a 7 cheese pizza, but as the brainstorming committee sat around rattling off types of cheese, they could only get to six.  Then someone shouted CREAM CHEESE and it was decided.

At least they didn't say cottage cheese.

Not the Same in Singapore

When we tell people we have Pizza Hut in Singapore, they're always surprised to hear it.  What they don't realize is that the Pizza Huts in Asia aren't serving up the traditional pepperoni and cheese pies to which we Americans have grown so accustomed.  No, they have selections like this, which were advertised on their website:

A crustacean...from Pizza Hut?

Like onion rings, but grosser

It has it all!  Loads of seafood AND pineapple, all on a PIZZA!

Seriously guys, ease up on the pineapple.

So maybe now you understand how we can show up in the U.S., craving a tasty slice of Papa John's?