Pizza-La Takumi Japanese Quarter (product information)

I love it when a pizza lives up to foreign expectations of what Japanese pizza is going to be and this release from Pizza-La has stepped up to the plate. At a glance, it doesn't look terribly exotic except for the shellfish with shells (mmmm, crunchy) and the slender strips of nori (seaweed paper). However, it is not quite as tame as it looks.

The point of this pizza is to allow consumers to get 4 pizzas in one. To that end, we have these 4 types:

1. Scallop Butter with soy sauce. 

Shrimp, scallops and clams are cooked in butter and soy sauce.

2. Mentaiko mochi

Mochi (pounded rice cake), potato and mentaiko (marinated pollock roe)... and you thought those were blobs of fresh mozzarella, didn't you?

3. Negibee

The web site mainly mentions the green onion (negi), but clearly this has bacon, mushroom and nori as well.

4. Teriyaki chicken

The selling point is that the chicken is well-marinated in teriyaki and very moist. 

Of course, because this is Japanese pizza, it also has to include corn and mayonnaise. If anyone has tried this specimen, leave a comment and let me know what you think. (And, no, I wouldn't touch this pizza with a ten-foot pole!)