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In celebration of Lunar New Year, The Pizza Project is launching a limited-time Sichuan Collection menu comprising three special items that combine Italian cuisine with Chinese flavours in the most eccentric of ways. Sichuan pepper, with its love-it-or-hate-it mala numbing qualities, will be the star of the show, alongside other fiery ingredients.
Available only from February 1 to 28 to ring in the Year of the Fire Horse, The Pizza Project’s festive Sichuan Collection includes the mapo pizza ($130) which is sans tofu but does come stacked with moreish pork mince, fior di latte, mapo sauce, garlic, dried chilli, and Sichuan pepper, resulting in a pie packed with rich flavour and numbing heat. Similarly, the Chinese Diavola ($130) merges savoury and spicy spianata – a cured Italian salami from Calabria aged with hot chilli peppers and paprika – with umami XO sauce, bold Sichuan spices and pepper, and chilli garlic for a novel Italian-Chinese fusion that keeps taste buds fired up.
If you are still in the game for even more spice, their unusual Sichuan ice cream blends fior di latte with Sichuan herbs and pepper to create an icy-hot experience, bolstered by a crown of crunchy peperone crusco (aromatic fried peppers from Italy’s Basilicata region) and a drizzled topping of cherry tomato jam.
