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So, I'm supposed to be writing some important work today, but I thought I'd put it off by doing other things, like surfing the net - this work will hopefully never get done.

Has anyone else tried the pizza dish mentioned in Konami's Snatcher - Neo Kobe Pizza? Where you submerge a slice of pizza in soup? I've tried it quite often, and find it's rather damned bloody excellent. I have it about once a week.

It was actrually supposed to be Akashiyaki in the Japanese original, but the translators changed it to pizza and soup to appeal to Western audiences (who'd presumably not understand the cultural reference to Japanese dumplings in fish broth). Regardless, this strange bastardised clash of cultural foods is rather nice.

I normally make miso soup (you really do need a chunky-free, thin broth or consommé style of soup - cream of tomato simply will not do) and then I add Asda's thin and crispy vegetable pizza (3 for £3, which is quite a bargain).

Ingredients needed:
1 x pizza
1 x onion
1 x smallish piece of dried konbu (optional)
Some x savoury fermented soybean paste (Japanese miso is best, but Korean and Chinese will work - I often use Korean since it's easier to get hold of)

Method:
1) Slice the onion fine and gently fry in a small pot until golden
2) Disolve soybean paste in hot water and add to pot (I use a heaped tablespoon for a whole pot, but you should adjust this to taste - add more water later if too salty)
3) Gently simmer this with the piece of dried konbu (be sure to remove konbu later on, and throw it away)
4) Heat pizza
5) Cut pizza into 8ths
6) Submerge one slice at a time, and eat with chopsticks as and when you feel it has been submerged for long enough (try varying the times)
7) Finish off by drinking the soup


Chopsticks are essential, since it allows you to manipulate each slice more easily, for dipping, dredging, twisting and eating. It's also a good idea to get a thin and crispy pizza, since it stays crispier for longer than a deep crust one, which is too spongy. Also, having chunky topping pieces is a good idea (the Asda T&C Vegetable pizza comes with lots of onions and red/yellow peppers, plus spinach, and makes for the perfect addition), since they'll fall off into the soup and make it taste better. The warm soup will also keep the cheese soft and yummy.

The above serves two people. If the other person is a date, offer to share the same soup bowl for pizza dipping, and possibly have some candles as well. The chopsticks also allows easy feeding of each-other.


PRO TIPS:
Avoid having a moustache when eating with company.
Don't tell company you got the idea from a videogame.


If anyone else tries this, post some photos. Or mention your own variations on soup and pizza combinations.



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[nothingxs]

This actually sounds pretty fucking tasty. Anything else it could be tried with other than Miso soup?
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"newsflash, big guy. you can wax on wax off all you like, i'm still kicking your ass."

[Krazii Bakon Lypes]

Can you show us a picture of the final dish? Also, did Kojima invent this dish, some kind of "this is the foooooood of the FUTURE" prediction gone terribly right?

Edit: I read the rest of your post, but I like the idea of "the _____ of the future", so I'm keeping the text there.

[Sketch]

[another god]

How do u eat a slice of pizza with chop sticks? I can't imagine balancing it well at all...

[Sketch]

Grab the middle of the slice with the chopsticks, and then point the pointy-end towards your mouth and bite. Now it's a bit more horizontal and easier to pick up.

The trick is cutting a large pizza into 8 slices.
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[rabite gets whacked!]

True fact!

For one year I attended a boarding school with a cafeteria that had a regular weekly menu. This featured, for lunch on Mondays, Pizza.

Also, as a dinner option on Wednesdays, Pizza Soup.

Not even joking.
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[Wilkes]

if this gets frontpaged I'll get banned
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[gooktime]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8402489608120918384&q=neo+kobe+pizza

[nothingxs]

Nice snag there, Metal! Hey, where's mine?

I want my Pizza! Where's my Pizza?
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[les meat]

Just sounds like to me cream of tomato is the sensible choice for this
people dip pizza in sauces
cream of tomato is pretty saucy

people put cheese in cream of tomato
pizza is covered in cheese AND TOMATO!

Post pics to prove its not revolting
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[les meat]

Just sounds like to me cream of tomato is the sensible choice for this
people dip pizza in sauces
cream of tomato is pretty saucy

people put cheese in cream of tomato
pizza is covered in cheese AND TOMATO!

Post pics to prove its not revolting
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[shnozlak]

[Sketch]

Crikey, they actually front-paged this.

Good point with the tomato comment. Maybe a thick soup of a different flavour will work well, I've not tried anything other than miso.

WORD OF ADVICE:
I tried a different pizza the other day, one that's supposedly a more luxurious brand to the basic, super-cheap Asda range (it cost three times as much), and I found that despite being described as Thin and Crispy, its base was quite crumbly. Like dried, flakey sponge almost. Very porous. Horrid stuff.

Anyway, being so porous, it soaked up the soup really quickly and went soggy. So, when looking for pizza, make sure it has a dry, non-porous, non-flakey, non-crumbly based, similar to the kind you'll find at pizza places which still use stoneware ovens.

I guess it goes to show, more expensive does not mean better quality.
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[les meat]

I can't believe they front paged this without it containing a picture of soup drenched pizza!
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[Moogs]

Doing a google search for "Asda's pizza" reveals that I probably can't buy it in America.

It also brings this thread up as the third search result.
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[RecessRapist]

I've always wanted to play that game and now after seeing that i want it even more!
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[Sketch]

I discover that Kotaku actually made a news item out of this. What a head trip, man.

Has anyone actually tried this? Because seriously, it costs next to nothing and is fairly easy, so I would have guessed that lots of people would have tried it, just for a laugh.

Anyway, I believe the correct terms for the desired base is "stone baked."




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[LandRoverAttack]

Hope uhh, bumping a two-year-old Force Feedback thread isn't too frowned upon, but anyway...

I tried this last night with a couple friends (who haven't played enough Snatcher to get to this scene :/ ) using some stuff I had around. Two cans of Progresso chicken noodle soup and a Freschetta (nice brand) Rising Crust, so not exactly the Asda you describe (not sure what would be the American equivalent). It was pretty damn goood! The crust was fairly thick but wasn't as spongy and absorbent as the other pizzas you tried. It was 4 meat so there was plenty of stuff in the soup afterward, which made for good soup.

They both enjoyed it and I'm planning on trying it with different soups and pizzas. Hope I can get them to play Snatcher, now...

This was after I saw your post on the HG101 blog, Sketch. So, kudos!
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[Cycle]

I want photos, darn it
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[Sketch]

Photos, taken by me, one-handed, near the bottom of this page:
http://blog.hardcoregaming101.net/2009/08/cooking-with-jeremy-blaustein.html

Plus other people's photos, a link to Destructoid, plus a short audio interview (on Megaupload) with Jeremy Blaustein where he offers cooking advice.

Bon appetit.
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[rebalias]

How does a pizza stone work? How do you make a pizza crispy normally? I am having trouble making my pizzas crispy. I have a pizza stone, but don't know how to use it.
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[extrabastardformula]

Leave the pizza stone in the oven all the time. When the oven is preheated, put your pie right on the hot stone.