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2009-07-14
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Came to MEGABOX one night in May with my family, who haven't visited the 'Box' before and most likely would never come again after this once off event. A rather quiet night once again, this place really is awkardly situated! Instinctively, all of us would rather choose to dine at a commercialised 'California Pizza Kitchen' over the other also commercialised Chinese restaurant options upstairs... perhaps knowing that if we're going to take a gamble, might as well gamble on an American chain wi
BBQ Chicken Salad -
Came with a ranch type dressing not too dissimilar to a caesar dressing, pretty fresh lettuces and tomato salsa. The grilled chicken wasn't bad and the BBQ sauce was tangy and smoky. Came with strips of crispy corn chips.
Roast Garlic Chicken Pizza -
Looks like we're having a lot of chicken tonight. This pizza had just the right amount of Roasted garlicky input, also with onions and a White wine and Garlic/Shallots buttery sauce - the latter half of the equation almost doubling over the main ingredients themselves.
Wild Mushrooms Pizza (Added chicken) -
This comprises of 4 types of mushrooms, the most powerful 2 being Portobello and Japanese Shiitake - enhanced by a Mushroom Walnut Pesto sauce and 2 cheese, Fontina and Mozzarella.
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The pizzas here are quite Americanised in a way. The toppings seem a bit exotic and outback like in scheme somewhat, the pizza has a medium thickness dough base that is crunchy on the outside but softer in the middle. They're cooked in a bricked-oven which is great with even distribution of heat. Most cook their's in a commercial oven installed with a conveyor belt. Its probably not true wood-fire pizza here though, there's simply none of the aromatic trait and bubbly skins. Very different from the Italian counterparts.
In reality, its very difficult to find American pizzas of such edible quality locally, may be apart from say Pizza Express, which is also a foreign import but not from America and has much thinner bases - in fact Pizza Express is probably closer to true Italian flavours somewhat. Pizzahut meanwhile in Hong Kong, for some reason gets worst and worst over the years and has completely lost its American heritage, now its more Asianised but still edible in a funny way I guess.
Its a strange thought - but if I ever have a crave for this particular style of commerical Americanised pizza, I will choose this as my no.1 choice. Horses for causes: if rated as a non-artisinal type of pizza, this definitely deserves a high '4' to low '5'. Its actually quite good and the ingredients and sauces have been well thought out and actually works. ( I'm not entirely a big fan of the PHDs and Domino's plus they're mostly take-aways.)
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