Pizza Hut Taiwan introduces a new pizza dish that is both playful and delicious -- the Stuffed Crust Double Filling Mugwort Mochi Turtle Pizza is garnished with cilantro, has red eyes, and even webbed feet. This dish is inspired by the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle but of course, there are no traces of turtle in the pizza dish.
It is inspired by the mugwort cake, which is a sweet rice cake that is infused with the mugwort herb. The chewy mochi pieces make up the pizza with savory notes filling the preserved rice and cilantro. This is blended with sweet notes that are added by red bean paste. It is served with a cheese-stuffed crust and then decorated with tater totes.
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