00:00:00 John Daub: All right, here it is. This is maybe one of the most bizarre things. Okay, so we got the sauce here on top. This is the ramen pizza, everybody. Three, two, one. Oh, wow. Okay, so there we have it. It is ramen pizza. What else can I say about it? We have ramen noodles on top here. If you look on the side, you can see the noodles quite clearly. I'm guessing that this is like a bacon and it's like a chashu (roast pork) steak, which is some of the meat that you'd get on top of ramen. Maybe this is the negi (green onions). I don't know. We're going to dig into this in a second, but I wanted to just show you this unadulterated with sauces because we got to dump that stuff on top of here. It is a bizarre pizza to say the least. I don't know. What do you guys think? Is this something that you would like to eat here?

00:00:52 John Daub: I haven't done a stream like this at home for a very long time. The last time I did live streams eating at home was during the pandemic. So this is a long time coming. But when I saw this pop up, I was really shocked because if you take a look at this pizza, this was last year. Pizza Hut is crazy when it comes to innovating or I guess gimmicks because this is the wiener pizza, the Wiener coffee pizza. Wiener coffee is Viennese coffee from Austria, I guess you'd say. It's quite popular in Japan. You have the sausage wieners going around the crust of it. And I guess there's coffee sauce. I don't know how this tastes. Don't ask me. I don't know because I didn't actually try it, which is a shame. This one very hard to miss. And I'm already getting people writing in here. Gross. Really? I don't know. We're going to have to find out.

00:01:53 John Daub: So this is the Pizza Hut website here. This is the campaign that they have. The posters look pretty convincing. Ramen and pizza go together or do they? We're going to try it as soon as it's getting cold. Time to eat this thing. Koterifu Ramen Pizza. And it's 1,980 yen, which is approximately fifteen dollars for a medium sized pizza, which is pretty much a small. Look at the sauce on there. That's the sauce that's going to be going on top of this pizza. We're going to do that next. And it kind of shows you how you're supposed to eat it. Of course, it comes with directions because that would make a lot of sense. How the heck do you eat a ramen pizza? They figured it out. Look at this happy chef holding the pizza and the ramen box together. And of course, there's an Instagram where this stuff goes pretty viral most of the time here.

00:02:51 John Daub: All right, let's do this now. Enough looking at me. Let's look at that pizza here. So like you get a pan down here. So I was really confused. And how do you eat this thing? Do you use chopsticks? I'm guessing that chopsticks would be the way to go. Right. So let me put that sauce on here. This seems to be the most important things. And this rice in here seems like it'd be very starchy. You're probably right on that. All right. This is the sauce. Let me just tell you, the cream smells incredible. It smells like ramen in here. It smells very salty, hot pizza ramen. It doesn't have a pizza smell because the cheese and the sauce usually do no garlic or anything. Well, actually a different kind of garlic. All right. I guess you're just going to swirl it like this, huh? I'm going to put some extra here because we're going to try that piece right here a little bit more. I'm going to leave some extra sauce here just in case maybe it's something that you want to try on it later.

00:03:59 John Daub: Like how do you pick it up? Oh, it's really thin. That's very unusual for Pizza Hut. Usually it's a pan pizza, right? That's unusual. All right. Anyone who's seen the Karate Kid knows that you have to be able to use chopsticks to catch flies and your chopstick skills must be very good, especially if you look like Daniel LaRusso. Whoa, look at this. Has anyone ever eaten pizza with chopsticks before? Because apparently this is the way to go. Dude, just eat it like any other pizza. Sandrock, you're so boring. Where's the fun in that? You ever caught a fly with chopsticks? Not yet.

00:05:00 John Daub: Whoa. All right. So I'm noticing if you look at the cross section, you get very scientific here. You can see the cut ramen in there that's pretty interesting. We're going to go into our hey mr clayton ramen pizza. Why didn't I think of this in college? I know right. Especially this is a bit better than a gyro. Itadakimasu (let's eat). Interesting, very interesting. Oh we just lost the sauce there. All right I think I have enough to give. It's a little dry. Let's just try that chashu steak more like bacon but different. It's thinner sliced than the chashu steak you would get on a ramen so maybe they could make it thicker but then again it wouldn't bake very well on a pizza so they did the chashu steak is quite thin. The noodles are good. Who doesn't like the noodles? I think it's like a step up from the instant noodles. A little dry. Does it taste like dry ramen or pizza? It's not crunchy like dry ramen but you know what like the noodles are soft. These parts are crunchy the ones that have been baked but you need the sauce on there or else it's too dry.

00:07:27 John Daub: So glad I saved some of this sauce. I think you gotta go extra sauce on some of the slices. Some people are gonna like it and some people won't. There's no tomato sauce, so it doesn't taste much like a pizza. It's more like ramen bread in the shape of a pizza. And that, my friends, is weird. Let's zoom in here because we can. That's not so pretty. Hmm. I don't know. You can see the cross section here. What do you think? Is this worth the calories? I would say no. Look, why is this a good combination? The answer is in Japan, and this is why Japan has been doing this for decades. I think in the United States we're starting to see more and more innovations like bizarre foods that work well on social media, which is great. But Japan has been doing this well before social media. They've been doing this kind of weird combinations. And the reason why is because Japanese want to see that these companies are innovative. And let's be honest, the one who says, look at me, I look weird, everyone's gonna focus their attention onto this.

00:08:47 John Daub: That's why this wiener pizza... And people did order this. Apparently, this was popular. And I did a live stream doing fish and chips pizza, which was bizarre. They took the fish and chips from the UK and put it onto a Domino's pizza. And that was really interesting. I tried that during the pandemic. I was quite curious. And that's the point. It makes you curious. Now, I don't normally order Pizza Hut in Japan. I think this is maybe my third time. If you do order Pizza Hut in Japan, I recommend the bulgogi pizza, which is the Korean barbecue meat pizza, the deep dish. Oily, buttery, but oh my God, it's so good. There's just umami of the meat on top of there with the semi-spicy sauce on top with the cheese and the deep dish. You can only eat about two pieces because it is so buttery, but it's really good. And that's probably the most popular pizza known in Pizza Hut Japan is the bulgogi pizza. But they come up with these gimmicks. And I think that in Japan, if you didn't have these gimmicks, then you would be seen as an old company that does not know how to innovate.

00:10:00 John Daub: In Japan, you have Pepsi Cola, which needs to be different than Coke because they own the market. They have cucumber Pepsi. They've had Christmas cake Pepsi. They've had all sorts of weird colors. They've had deep fried chicken Pepsi that was specifically designed to eat with deep fried karaage (fried chicken) chicken. So there's a lot of things that are only in Japan in that sense that if Pepsi did not innovate, nobody would ever drink Pepsi. No one ever really drinks cola in Japan, to be honest with you. But this is carbs on carbs. And if you want to really inspire people, you go the next step. You go beyond the steps. You're on a freaking escalator to space, man. And this is what this is. Now, am I going to be ordering this ever again? No. That's what this live stream is for, so you don't have to. But is it worth it? You know what? Yeah. Click that like button, hit that subscribe button. Join me as I take you to more places and eat some more bizarre foods.

00:11:20 John Daub: I will enjoy another slice and take some of your questions right here, but for those that say live streams are too long, it's live. You're probably right. You can stop watching now. Yesterday, or two days ago, I did a live stream on medicines in Japan, and I loved the feedback. We had about 500 comments of people asking me if their medication, certain ones, would be okay to travel into Japan. Every country that you travel to, prescription medicines are going to be different. Like the laws of each country is very strict, and particularly in Asia, and the quantities of the ingredients in the drugs of the United States are very different. On your own peril. There was a person that was arrested, I think it was some like a PR person for a major corporation, who was living in the United States and came back with 60 pills of something or another and had to spend like 18 days in jail, because they brought in banned substances and they were Japanese and should have known better. Watch that video if you're worried about it but the process to do it is pretty painless. This documents three pages long. You can email them and get an answer within three or four days if you're bringing in more than 30 days of personal use medications or you have something on that banned list you're definitely going to want to check this out because the last thing I want to do is for somebody to get in trouble but it seems if it's for personal use it's okay but it's at your peril.

00:13:05 John Daub: When I come into Japan I could do this while I'm enjoying a piece of pizza. When I travel back and forth for the last 25, 26 years almost 30 years I've been backpacking I was always extremely careful with any kind of medicines because everybody who travels internationally knows about this and with more medicines being in people's travel bags more than ever now you have to be even more careful and this is just something you need to think about you need to have this in the back of your mind. Now this is medicine for the stomach. Oh it's different. This is different. I got a piece of this one. Look has the this one is really garlicky. This was oily garlicky rameny like you're drinking the first one was like I was eating the noodles this one tastes like I'm drinking the broth. That's very different. Maybe it should have more sauce on there or a piece of negi or that green part of it which is the chopped chives that go on top along with ramen. That was very good.

00:14:36 John Daub: I'm saving some slice but I asked her yesterday joy can I do you want a slice do you want me to order this pizza and she goes no it's like no you ruined all the fun and today she's she took leo to grandpa's house and she's working so I said this will be perfect for my lunch and I'll have a couple of pieces you know I don't eat a lot of carb on carb stuff it's interesting to try but I'll leave this for them to try when they come home and they're going to love it maybe not but it's curious it makes you think. All right if you are thinking of if you have like okay let's say you're having a family dispute and the kids say I want to eat pizza and the father and the mother says I want to eat ramen and they say okay let's compromise and get a ramen pizza. Nobody's going to be satisfied. It doesn't taste like pizza. It doesn't taste like ramen. It tastes like something like a yakisoba pan (fried noodles in bread). It's something that doesn't go together. So it's a completely different dish. And this is my conclusion is this is a completely different dish. Pizza lovers probably going to hate it. Ramen lovers probably going to hate it. But you can't have that expectation with this. It's a completely different thing. If your expectations are that this is not like spaghetti tacos. It's just bizarre. It doesn't seem to match. And yet it does oddly. Because it's not a pizza. It's not a ramen pizza. Make a different name for it. And then that's what it is.

00:16:26 John Daub: Ramen flatbread. That's interesting too. There's no tomato sauce on it. And there is cheese. So that it doesn't technically make it ramen or pizza. We have Ramza. I like that. With a lot of M's and Z's. When you look at it you can't ignore it. It's that bold.

00:17:05 John Daub: All right, everybody. That's all I got for you. Without wrapping on too long. Couple last minute shots. Let's get the light. Move it over here. For the Ramza. This is crazy. All right. This is kind of mostly finished. I was just confused. Like, do you with this pizza? Do you like eat it with chopsticks? And the answer is it's up to you. You can eat it any way you like. And that's the beauty of pizza. You can eat it with your hands. You can eat with a fork and knife. You might be a little weird if you eat with a fork and knife, but that doesn't mean that's the wrong way. It's just your way. And that's the right way. You could pick up some chopsticks. You can pick up your pizza if you want. That's completely up to you. And in Japan, you can do that. But yeah, is there ramen noodles on there? There sure are. That's a ramen pull. That's what you call pick up the noodles.

00:18:25 John Daub: So this pizza gets three stars out of five because it's not pizza and it's not ramen. It's ramen pizza. You get one star for the ramen, one star for the pizza and one star for being bold and having the courage to make it and try it. And that's all you get. The other two is left for the best pizza and the best ramen in the world. And that's what Japan has. If you like it, hit that subscribe button. See you in another episode again tomorrow, guys. Matane (see you later). Back to lunch. Just me and the ramen pizza. Bye bye.