Today’s menu: 불고기 피자 (Bulgogi Pizza).
This particular dish is not that bizzarre. For those of you with limited knowledge of Korean cuisine, bulgogi is a Korean dish consisting of marinated meat. It’s the kind of dish that anyone (aside from vegetarians), even those with unadventurous palettes, seem to enjoy. So this pizza, in addition to traditionally pizza toppings (mushrooms, green peppers, corn), includes large brown strips of some kind of meat that is allegedly supposed to be 불고기. Real 불고기 is made up of thinly sliced meat (either beef or pork) and is fairly juicy. The meat found here was more like beef jerky. It was hard and dry and had to be ripped apart with ones teeth.
That is not to say that all 불고기 pizza is poorly executed. I have had some 불고기 pizza that comes much closer to replicating the deliciousness that is 불고기 in a pizza form…Rodchester Pizza, I’m afraid can’t do it though.
