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Q: What do you think of China's take on pizza hut?
Back home it's pure pizza/pasta and ice cream with several side options available. Here they seem to have gone all out into making it some kind of multi-cuisine restaurant with steak, French dishes, fancy smoothies/hot drinks... it's as if it's not really "pizza hut" but more like "look-at-all-the-food-that-we-have hut" (sorry I couldn't think of anything else).
What do you think of the Chinese take on it? Is the food better/worse?
The food is alright. Although the pan pizza's back home were the best. I use to get one every week when I was in school through that reading program Book it! I've been to one of the pizza huts' in Beijing the one at the World Plaza mall (not sure if that name is right) but it's the one at Dawanglu. They have a pizza hut there across from a BK. The food was alright nothing that blows my mind!
I prefer to travel 45 minutes to eat at Papa John's versus going to the Pizza Hut in my town 
Scandinavian:
A trip to Pizza The Hut is not cheap either. It's better to pay a little extra and be able to spend the rest of the day without crying.
cooter:
Yeah, but that 100 kuai gets me everything I can eat in one sitting. One "small" stuffed crust pizza + cheese sticks + coke. I never feel guilty about spending the money, just feel guilty about the calorie bomb I just consumed 
Nessquick:
But those calories make us happy for the rest of the day, maybe for 1 week long :-)
I really like their coffee ("Father Lorenzo's") It is tragically sad that everything else is something they just need to heat of de-freeze. They don't even roll out the dough for pizza. The cheese is horrible, the meat is weird, the service is awful. The fact that they have other sorts of food on the menu, I guess is OK. You will notice how all places that serve food in China must have a really extensive menu. It's better to have the choice between hundreds of poorly made dishes than 3 well prepared ones. They actually don't have that much choice when it comes to pizza, and although they do have some customization options, it is really difficult to get what you want.
The worst part about it is, the Pizza Huts here in town, always have a line from about 17:30, I am sure they are making good money.
Really wish we had a Pizza Huh instead.
Who owns Pizza Hut. Anyone up for writing them about how much their Chinese operation sucks.
cooter:
Pizza Hut is a part of Yum! Brands, the same gig that owns KFC and Taco Bell. Do they even have Taco Hell in China?
NiceBrice:
I've wondered about this too. I don't think there would be a very big market for Taco Bell here. Almost all of the Chinese people I have asked say that they don't really like tacos/burritos etc.
I wonder if the meat quality (which is horrible in America) would actually be better than Chinese restaurants here...
Scandinavian:
to follow the trend they would have to use even worse meat in China than in US.
That being said, mexican food is rare in this country. I don't understand why, a burrito is conceptually the same as a baozi, just with added flavor.
The few times I have been in, the food quality has been perfectly satisfactory but the goods are woefully overpriced by local standards. Never-the-less, the restaurant is always well populated with both Chinese and foreign nationals so it must have something going for it.
It is not suprised that its taste is different from your home. even in China, the flavor are minor changes when food in the central china is in North part.
Hell I don't like the UK's take on Pizza Hut let alone China's, or as another poster on here said pizzash*t
I think that u cannot call it "pizza"., but only hut.
Neither back home or here in China I would consider Pizza Hut for eating a real pizza. What they offer is like a pizza-style "pizza-ish" thing, not more. For the same amount of money you can get a decent real pizza (Italian style) in some more authentic restaurant...
If you want a decent authentic Italian style pizza, (thin crust) in Nanning try T&MM (locals pronounce it tee mee mee) near Five Elephant Square, thin crust (of course) and very tasty. The restaurant is tiny though.
I have no connection either familial or financial with the above mentioned establishment,
Scandinavian:
I shall pay you one "thumb up" for your recommendation. Not sure I will ever go to Nanning, but hey.
cooter:
This recommendation can be applied to just about any city above 4th tier status. Go find your local expat-centric area. You're sure to find some place that kills any Chinese take on pizza, steak, or han bao...., especially if they have an actual expat cook!
MissA:
Yeah, even Urumqi had a good expat-owned restaurant that did pizza. If there's one there, there's one everywhere!
Hugh.G.Rection:
T&MM's is ran and owned by a group of Beijing Chinese, or at least my wife thinks they are Beijingers based on their accents.
Here, Pizza Hut seems to want to be everything. Pizza, Italian in general, Korean steak, or is it Japanese style steak?, and so on.I expect them to sell McDonald's style "hamburgers" at any time.
Pizza Hut and Crapa John sucks at home, can't imagine them being better in China, only sucking more.
I was told Yangshou had good pizza, I went to a Russian bar, the pizza was on a crispy wrap, covered in sauce with 4 little pieces of cheese on it, so mostly sauce, crap
Sharons in Guilin makes a good vegy pizza. I wasn't going to order any disappointing meat products on it.
GuilinRaf:
Sharon's Cafe???
Impossible! Food is overpriced, the quality is soso and the portions are disappointingly small. I much prefer Rosemary's.
TedDBayer:
My bad, it is Rosemarys, but maybe I didn't want to share. ...I eat 2 pizzas
GuilinRaf:
Ha ha ha!
Sorry for coming down too hard on you there. My experience in Sharons Cafe was not pleasant at all and I think I still have PTSD.
In Rosemary's I really liked the lasagna!
remember in china its not "serve what the customer wants" its "serve what ever we have" no use in asking why they will just say no why hahahah
about the same way feel about it in the us never go their
I actually feel that it is not too bad. But then again I never really had any Pizza Hut food when I was in the west, I would just go to real pizzerias for pizzas. Likewise in China really, you don't go to Pizza Hut for pizzas. The rest of the food is not bad but a bit overpriced.
As I said previously, heard all their pizzas are shipped over frozen from the U.S., for fear the Chinese will steal the recipe.
Tastes believable to me
Papa's is much better but actually in H.K. there is a little pizza shop on H.K. Island pretty authentic
Where I am at right now, even Pizza Hut is a luxury. How I wished they were here! Sigh......
I love Pizza Hut back home in the US, so I was excited the first time I came to China and saw Pizza Hut's everywhere. But, after going to many different ones in various cities, I came to a conclusion: PIZZA HUT IN CHINA SUCKS!
In fact, I have found that many other pizza places in China are so much better than Pizza Hut.
"Here they seem to have gone all out into making it some kind of multi-cuisine restaurant with steak, French dishes, fancy smoothies/hot drinks.."
I just want to point out that French dishes are in no way affiliated to what you would find in a Pizza Hut. Especially in China.
I usually love me some good ol' junk food, especially the American brands, but not when it came to pizzas, for some reason. Those pizza chains in China took me to a whole new level of hate towards Pizza Hut, Domino's, and such.
Corn and pineapple on pizzas. Ugh.
On a side note regarding the first part of this comment, here's a huge tip (I never got a chance to use it, so here it is):
Never, EVER eat "French style snails" in a restaurant that isn't a French restaurant. NEVER! I can't emphasize it enough.
Seriously. I don't think they even remove the snails' drool.
Pizza hut pizzas are down right nasty, can't believe anyone would go into these piss and shit places. papa johns fares alot better, I mean it's ediable, more tasty if you leave it in the fridge overnight and re-heat in an oven, but of course not the best. The best pizzas are authentic ones found in italy or family run restaurants if you're fortunate to live near one. Anyway, although pizzas are very tasty when done right, the calories are a killer, so eat in moderation and not having access to tasty pizza might not be such a bad thing really when you consider that one slice of pizza contains around 400 calories, and the average person should eat around 2000 calories per day. Don't even talk about the fat content because it will make your mum cry!
I don't know. I've come around to liking Pizza Hut. Yeah, the pizzas don't really have sauce and are super bland. But I find if you douse the pizza with tabasco sauce (which they always have if you ask) it kinda compensates. Ive kinda developed a taste for that. A lot of people said it's expensive, but I disagree. The lunch special rocks in fact. You get a mini pizza, salad, very small but decent vegetables, and a soda for like 37. I find the price of dining out in China is increasing recently. Paid 70 rmb the other night for Chinese food, dining outside on the street. Wasn't so nice or great. So Pizza Hut prices aren't so bad.
As for there other food, I wouldn't touch the noodles. But a lot of the other stuff is decent bar food. I think they basically get the recipes right by American standards. I think it's REALLY unhealthy which is maybe why it tastes good. Very heavily fried. I could taste the bacon grease on their caesar salad. I don't even think a caesar salad should have bacon grease... but fairly tasty bar food. I wouldn't eat there too much 
They did try a
Taco Bell in MIXC SZ a few years back but last time I looked it had closed or moved. Anyone know?
I don't think it's really a hut though... more like a big building ;-(
Scandinavian:
but in China an apartment is a house, so a random place in a mall could be a hut, like the roads and sidewalks gets confused too
If you ever come in Beijing , We have Tube station pizza chain , the 10'' of Pizza hut, here is 45rmb, also they do 19'' and 24''. The chef is Western and the food is very very authentic and fresh.
JustinF:
The Tube Station... isn't that place owned by the Chinese guy who recklessly screwed over his foreign business partner after the place became successful? It was named The Kro's Nest at the time, right?
