Gluten Free Pizza......

[menostay]

Should it be that you have the problem....

On your way to Mae Sai or environs and you are gluten intolerant, consider...after you pass through Chiang Rai on the left just afore you get to the road that takes you to Mae Fah Luang (perhaps a 100 meters before) there is a small pizzeria on your left run by an amiable Italian man named Gil.

He makes gluten free pizza that is DEElicious. Stopped by there by chance on day and looked forward to eating cardboard when he first told me he would make a gluten free pizza. I have been back twice and friends have said that they prefer the crust to normal flour. He uses sticky rice and slap me silly...it is lovely. And for the folks that have the gluten problem it is worth the drive just for the pizza.

Yes, this is the Chiang Mai forum but beg your favor....there are CM folks out there that will be very pleased that a pizza fix is not that far away.

Please help Gil to understand that Pizza came from Herculaneum. Poor deluded man mutters something about Napoli or Brooklyn when you ask him it's origin.

Cheers.

[CobraSnakeNecktie]

Interesting.

So it's a layer of sticky rice for a crust? or its ground up into a sticky rice flour?

Are other ingredients added to the crust?

[metisdead]

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[KRS1]

Interesting.

So it's a layer of sticky rice for a crust? or its ground up into a sticky rice flour?

Are other ingredients added to the crust?

Rice flour, sometimes i make fried chicken with it.

[Ulysses G.]

Sounds like a good thing for people with celiac disease that can not tolerate gluten.
I just wish that someone in Chiang Mai would make a whole wheat pizza. It can't taste any worse than most of the the regular ones available here and at least we could tell ourselves that it is more healthy.

[zeichen]

I could see using a low gluten wheat but how do you make a pizza that is gluten free.

Kind of like when I went to mexican res. in the US with a vegan who ordered the quesadilla and was upset that it had cheese on it. I tried to explain that a quessadilla is a cheese sandwich so ordering a quesaddilla without cheese would be like ordering a cheese sandwich without the cheeses. I said just order some tortillas with salsa next time.

Thanks OP, I have 2 friends that I will recommend it to them when they travel north next month.

[nivram4491]

I have a step daughter attending Mae Fah Luang University and so have had a regular flour based pizza at this shop. It was delicious. I can't remember the price but think it was very reasonable. The owner said he had a pizza shop in Chiang Mai at one time.

[SVS]

I hate to spoil your dinner but sticky rice has gluten in it ! It is the one rice with gluten that is why it is sticky! There is a Chinese buffet in my local whose Chinese lady owner is , as I am , gluten intolerant and they made all the dishes normally calling for sticky rice with jasmine rise cooked with vinegar and sugar to make it sticky. In the US they are how pushing an oats that is gluten free were all other oats has more gluten than wheat. What is how I learned, or became, gluten intolerant eating oatmeal on an extended camping trip in 1983. I have read several books on the subject and suggest you do the same. Gluten is not to be taken lightly as it will damage your small intestine and cause food mal absorption. And I agree that the normal rice based pizza crusts are crap crackers. Gil needs to be informed.

[Ulysses G.]

Actually, pure oatmeal does not contain gluten. However, most oatmeal brands on the market today are not pure. They often have oats with a tiny bit of wheat, barley and/or rye that got in during processing. It should be of no concern to someone on some trendy diet, but it has to be avoided by anyone with celiac disease or who is genuinely gluten intolerant.

Sticky rice does not have gluten either. People get confused because it is called glutinous rice, but the term "glutinous" simply refers to the fact that glutinous rice gets glue-like, or sticky, when cooked.