Sushi + pizza. It’s a combo you hardly hear of, but this local start-up business isn’t scared to try. Merging two favorites into one flavorful mash-up is 1621 Sushi Pizza, where pizza crust meets sushi rice and Japanese ingredients!

1621 Sushi Pizza’s slightly charred, thin, chewy pizza crust encases a bed of moist Japanese rice, topped with Chef AJ Reyes’ special mixture of seafood, sauces, and fresh ingredients. Each 9″ pie serves two-three people (or one really hungry person).

Hailed as the kid-friendly, best-seller, their Seafood Aburi flavor (P450) is loaded with several elements that all work cohesively in the end (and taste just like a loaded, fusion sushi roll).

The Seafood Aburi has fresh cubes of salmon and tuna sashimi mixed in with a silky sauce of wasabi mayo, cheese, and a soy glaze, giving it a creamy, savory, and umami-inducing burst of flavors, with a tiny kick of wasabi spice.

The tuna and salmon are also mixed in with bits of kani (crabstick), gari (pickled ginger), tobiko (fish roe), cucumber bits, spring onion, and nori, which each add its own crunch and freshness to the creamy mixture, lessening any possible umay risk. The aburi method also adds some welcomed smokiness to the dish.

1621 Sushi Pizza also has a classic Tuna flavor (P450), made with almost the same elements, only just with tuna belly, and sriracha mayo instead. There are also tempura flakes on top for an added crunch.

The Spicy Salmon (P450) uses fresh, torched salmon, tossed in sriracha mayo, gari, tobiko, soy glaze, and Chef’s delicious cheese sauce, topped with bonito flakes, nori tempura flakes, and fried salmon skin.

The eating experience is similar to enjoying a thin pizza slice packed with toppings, just with the added texture and taste of sushi rice peeking in between, which, surprisingly, isn’t that weird. The tasty, multi-dimensional sauces and the premium toppings are what make the novelty easy to enjoy.

Feel free to reheat your pizza, too! They’re okay warm, but to melt the cheese even more, you can heat your pie on the stove for 3 minutes on medium heat, or in the oven for two-three minutes. Heating it in the microwave isn’t recommended.

More sushi pizza flavors are in the pipeline for 1621 Sushi Pizza.

1621 Sushi Pizza is located along Little Baguio, San Juan. You can order via their order form or their Instagram page. – Rappler.com