Thais can't make pizza! (In my experience)

[oneday]

The best pizza I found after 10 years was in Toscana on beach road in Pattaya!

America pizza company's have not good taste , the add something that you Always feel more hungry!

Now Iam in farang land and pizza is great!

Best in Pattaya, IMO, bar none, is New York Pizza on 3rd road just north of Buffalo Bar about 100 meters on the same side.

However, I'm always up for trying pizza in different places so I'll keep Toscana in mind. Would have been nice to narrow the location down. Beach road is a very long road. Nevertheless, I'll let my fingers do the talking on Google.

[cooked]

I think that the 'cheese' used in pizzas here is often mayonnaise sauce mixed with flour and MSG. Tomato ketchup on top of that, some cheap ham, onions and that's it. I don't know what they do with the dough.

I make my own pizzas including the dough, and if you want to do it right you finish up with a great pizza but by Thai standards, an expensive meal.

[how241]

Pizza place at the Avenue, 2nd road , has good pizza.

[SoiBiker]

Plenty of good pizza here in Bangkok.

[bra]

Limoncello Sukhumvit Sot 11 Bangkok is OK. But I don't recommend the spicy version (well this is Thailand!) its so spicy I needed quite a few very cold beers to cool down! The rest of the menu is OK too.

[robertson468]

My Wife who is Thai, makes the most fantastic pizza I have ever tasted and consoney.

[misterphil]

I get my pizzas from pizza company and have done for years. Their thin and crispy is never thin and crispy so i bought myself a pizza stone. Order the pizza, put the stone in the oven at 180 and wait for the pizza. Pizza arrives, pop it in the oven for 4-5 minutes and hey perfect thin and crispy pizza. Run the pizza slice through the original slice marks and you get a full slice with non of the problem the OP gets.

[watcharacters]

Pizza is just too personal to one's taste.

We all have our favorite.

[watcharacters]

I get my pizzas from pizza company and have done for years. Their thin and crispy is never thin and crispy so i bought myself a pizza stone. Order the pizza, put the stone in the oven at 180 and wait for the pizza. Pizza arrives, pop it in the oven for 4-5 minutes and hey perfect thin and crispy pizza. Run the pizza slice through the original slice marks and you get a full slice with non of the problem the OP gets.

I'd love to see a www.youtube video of hat process.

Any chance?

I've lived a lot of years and have yet to hear of a pizza stone.

Correction, Google to the rescue. Works for you and that's great. Some disagree.

Pizza Stone Hack (And Why They Suck)* - Instructables

Good luck with your pizza! Don't get me started on a quest… 555

[FredNL]

Pizzas aren't the only thing Thais can't make.....

The best Italian food, pizzas and wines in Bangkok / Thailand are available @ Avanti. Baked in an outdoor stove with a wood fire.

They have a website www.avanti.co.th for local delivery, reservations, route and menu.

Avanti Italian Restaurant is located at Le Raffles in Narathiwas Soi 24 (or Sadupradit Soi 19).

They're currently closed due to Songkran. It will take some time to have all ingredients delivered. (Fresh) (Monday or Tuesday)

I spoke to one of the owners, by phone yesterday..

Just google: Italian Restaurant Avanti Bangkok or visit their website.

Their website has also mobile access. (One of the best websites for mobiles in Thailand)

I found a nice review here: http://www.gourmetbangkok.com/avanti-a-hidden-gem-that-definitely-delights-you/

Edited April 19, 2015 by FredNL

[Mak25]

I like Pizza Pizza by Yanee at Centralworld. Their wood fired oven pizza is exactly my taste. They also have branches in Pattaya and Hua Hin which I did not try.

Edited April 19, 2015 by Mak25

[pest]

Caddyshack and Green iguana Kathu finest pizza in Phuket

[smotherb]

I tolerate the pizza company pizza but that's all.Um Pizza Hut in Thailand shouldn't be called Pizza Hut.I'm hearing Dominos is coming to Thailand.

I'm really hoping they won't change.But I'm not holding my breath.

If you think Dominos is good pizza, you have a lot to learn

[sirineou]

Most of the pizza I had in Thailand was IMO terrible, but that's because of my personal taste,

Pizza in Thailand reflects regional tastes, I am used to NYC pizza when I was vising in Venetia Italy the pizza was tottaly different from what I was used to it, and then later when in Sicily different again.

Only being in Pattaya once did not eat pizza there,but there are a lot of foreign visitors there and perhaps pizza there reflects that market,

Up in KKC not so many foreigners as a percentage of the population , and the pizza there reflects that market,

Sorry that you had what in your opinion was bad pizza in Thailand, what's next complains about Sometom in Minsk ?

[seancbk]

I tolerate the pizza company pizza but that's all.Um Pizza Hut in Thailand shouldn't be called Pizza Hut.I'm hearing Dominos is coming to Thailand.

I'm really hoping they won't change.But I'm not holding my breath.

Domino's has been in Bangkok for a while. Don't hold your breath though, it's even worse than Pizza Company.

[realenglish1]

Your right Thais cannot make Pizza but I Make a real nasty pie

Full of c pepppers onions and bacon with great Mozzarella cheese cooked to perfection with the cheese a little brown in patches so its properly cooked

Wow my mouth is watering now for one

BTY I make it all from scratch yummy

[robhufton]

Limoncello Sukhumvit Sot 11 Bangkok is OK. But I don't recommend the spicy version (well this is Thailand!) its so spicy I needed quite a few very cold beers to cool down! The rest of the menu is OK too.

Agree, best pizza I found in Bkk

[amdy2206]

There are a couple of great pizza shops in Vientiane when/if you next visit. Try Via Via just off the main river road, you won't be disappointed.

[Shaunduhpostman]

I really like the pizza underneath the sky train station at Asoke, Palato or Palazo Roma or something like that. Expensive, but very nice crust and top level toppings and no skimping. The high cost is maybe even a plus that way you don't eat there too often and get fat. I like that they sell it by the slice, never feel like I need a whole pie no matter how good the pizza but I will eat one if you set one in front of me. Given we are not even near Italy or any other zones within the Italian Internatizonale, I don't think you can ask for much more than 1 good pizza place and there are others (not Pizza Co. either) that are pretty good as well, the basement of Central Dept. in Pattaya has very cheap and very good slices as well. Much improved pizza scene in the last decade, not bad considering that arguably little else has improved that much in Thailand during the same period.

[maderaroja]

I make my own foccacia and add the toppings of my choice. First class, all the way!

[SOTIRIOS]

...so don't go back....

...Chiang Rai had an Italian on Main Street 10 years ago...great crust...etc...and olive oil on the table...

...pizza is pizza...either you know it....or you are just a fake...using a 'buzz word'...to lure in the unsuspecting....(Should that surprise any of us by now???)

...they had applied to an international regulating agency to bar Thailand from using the word pizza....so you are correct buddy...

...see if you can see the end product beforehand

[phil2407]

Best pizza Ive had in Thailand is at Dukes in Chiangmai - their calzone is amazing

[Xonax]

I really like the pizza underneath the sky train station at Asoke, Palato or Palazo Roma or something like that. Expensive, but very nice crust and top level toppings and no skimping. The high cost is maybe even a plus that way you don't eat there too often and get fat. I like that they sell it by the slice, never feel like I need a whole pie no matter how good the pizza but I will eat one if you set one in front of me. Given we are not even near Italy or any other zones within the Italian Internatizonale, I don't think you can ask for much more than 1 good pizza place and there are others (not Pizza Co. either) that are pretty good as well, the basement of Central Dept. in Pattaya has very cheap and very good slices as well. Much improved pizza scene in the last decade, not bad considering that arguably little else has improved that much in Thailand during the same period.

I too like "Pala" underneath BTS Askoe for a fast bite. But they mainly serve re-heated slices, rather than pizza´s made to order.

[SoiBiker]

...they had applied to an international regulating agency to bar Thailand from using the word pizza....so you are correct buddy...

Er, you do realise that was a joke, right?

http://notthenation.com/2011/01/world-pizza-council-revokes-pizza-company%E2%80%99s-use-of-word-pizza/

[Moonlover]

How many Italians can make a good Pad Thai?

[bander]

Any thai owned pizza restaurant is a waste of time to dine in, the pizza taste like paper in best case

[sirineou]

Any thai owned pizza restaurant is a waste of time to dine in, the pizza taste like paper in best case

it is probably a problem with your Matrix

take the blue pill and try Thai pizza again I promises you it will taste a lot better

[marko kok prong]

Americans can't make pizza either!

And at 'Italian' restaurants in Thailand where they actually do make a good pizza you need to bring your microscope to locate the ordered extras like anchovies, artichoke, capers or tuna, really you can't find it even you are gonna pay for it they are too fkcn greedy.

Worst post of the year !!!

More Italian families and pizza outlets in new york and chicago than in the rest of the known world.

(outside Italy, of course). All the cities in towns in my area are named for Italian ones.

Syracuse and Rome are where I grew up. My high school was 90 percent italian.

Amerigo Vespucci would slap ya.

Where I grew up...you only hear Italian...and pizzas, as you know them, were perfected there.

Agree,had wonderful pizza in the USA,and who invented the deep pan,some posters who know very little,should reffrain from exposing the fact on an internet forum.

[marko kok prong]

As a few posters have said,it is often a matter of personal taste,for me,i had a great pizza,in Chiang mai,but the prep chef,did not know or had not been told,before you slice the pepporoni,you have to strip the plastic skin off,i tried to explain this to them after i had stripped of the plastic skin and eaten the pizza,total shutdown; loss of face,my wife fled the resturant,as i was trying to explain,i left ball bearings there for my air rifle,when i went back the next day,they giggiling denied all knowledge of said pellets then, told me they were locked up in the managers room,for two day,as he had gone somewhere,,i said i was leaving the next day ,to shrugs,and more giggiling,i did'nt push it ,it was revenge,i knew it,all i had tried to do was help,but i had made them lose face,it left me with ;excuse the pun ;a bad taste in my mouth,another learning experience,but to get back on topic the best pizza i ever had was in Gozo, a small island of Malta,a lady used to bring them every day,simple thin crust a smear of tomato paste,a sprinkle of the local cheese and herbs,and a bit of sliced tomato,on top,as the old saying goes"it does'nt get better than that"[pizza wise anyway].

[Acharn]

I can't imagine why you're calling that thing pizza. Pizza requires special ovens hotter than ordinary ovens can handle. You cannot, repeat cannot, make pizza without a special pizza oven. For the rest of it, pizza is a convenience food. You buy one so you don't have to cook. If it also tastes good that's nice, but not the most important thing. Why on earth you would order something called pizza at a regular restaurant I can't imagine. Well, if it was an Italian restaurant, maybe. There used to be an old Italian guy here in Nakon Sawan who, I was told, made great pizza, but I think he's passed on.