Pizza Hut has teamed up with a 128-year-old Hong Kong restaurant to debut a new limited-edition menu item, snake on a pizza.
The new 9-inch dish is topped with shredded snake meat, black mushrooms, abalone sauce and Chinese dried ham.
Consuming snake meat has long been popular in Hong Kong and southern China with many believing it has medicinal qualities, including improving skin conditions and increasing blood circulation.
"Paired with cheese and diced chicken, the snake meat becomes richer in taste," Pizza Hut Hong Kong said in a statement before the dish was released last week.
"Combined with pizza, it marks a breakthrough from the conventional concept of what maintaining good health means while challenging one's taste buds."
To come up with the recipe, the American pizza chain partnered with Ser Wong Fun — a snake restaurant in Central Hong Kong with roots dating back to 1895.
The shredded meat is a mix of Chinese rat snakes, branded kraits, and white banded snakes.
The pizza is on sale until November 22.
It is not the first time Pizza Hut locations in Asian countries have adapted to local food culture.
Pizza Hut Taiwan once introduced pizzas topped with durian, pig blood curds and preserved eggs, while Pizza Hut Japan once created a pizza topped with tonkotsu ramen (pork bone soup ramen).
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