In celebration of Tomb-Sweeping Day (often known as the Qingming Competition), Pizza Hut Taiwan serves up the new Grass Turtle Pizza with Cheese-Stuffed Snake, which seems like a turtle with a snake on its again.
The limited-time pizza is impressed by caozaiguo, a inexperienced dumpling served to have fun the Qingming Competition. Caozaiguo can are available in candy or savory variations and Pizza Hut’s Grass Turtle Pizza seems to include elements of each.
The Grass Turtle Pizza incorporates a turtle-shaped pizza base that is full of cheese. The physique of the “turtle” is topped with sautéed shredded radish and rice, whereas the toes are full of a candy pink bean filling. The inexperienced shell, head, and toes are manufactured from skinny squares of chewy mugwort mochi (just like the pores and skin of a caozaiguo). Driving the turtle is a puff-pastry snake stuffed with cheese.
The turtle-and-snake theme is predicated on Xuanwu (or Genbu in Japan), one of many 4 Symbols of the Chinese language constellations (Ed. be aware – A Ninja Turtle additionally involves thoughts). It represents the north and the winter season.
Pizza Hut Taiwan provided the same pizza round this time final yr (minus the snake).
Photograph through Pizza Hut Taiwan.
