Pizzas… on rice cakes. Faced with the sharp rise in the price of wheat, Pizza Hut adds a new dish to its menu in Japan: the fast food chain will offer mini-pizzas starting next week, the base of which will be made up of a rice cake, instead of the traditional wheat flour dough, brings Bloomberg. Topped with teriyaki chicken, garlic prawns, roast pork and Japanese-style beef short ribs.
These small, rice-based pizzas will be offered for a few weeks at Pizza Hut restaurants across the country, but could join the regular menu if Japanese customers pick them up.
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine sent wheat prices skyrocketing on world markets. For wheat, however, Japan relies on foreign supplies: the country relies on food imports for 38% of calories consumed and 66% in terms of value, it specifies. Bloomberg. Rice, by contrast, is widely grown in the archipelago and prices have remained subdued due to abundant production and large stocks on hand.
Source: BFM TV
