Pizza Fusion in Downtown DM

Fong's Pizza
Des Moines

Thai chicken pizza with peanut sauce, carrot, celery, onion, and cilantro

cheese egg rolls with mozzarella

Fong's is a downtown institution of sorts for the young, hip and boozy.  Housed in an old chinese restaurant, traditional and fusion pizzas (think thai chicken and crab rangoon) are the specialty with an array of exotic drinks in novelty glasses.

Fusion Cuisine in Disguise

 Prasek´s Smokehouse, Hillje, TX


What the Texans refer to as ¨kolaches¨ are one of my favorite treats when I happen to find myself down around those parts.  There were a lot of Czech/Polish immigrants in Texas back in the day, and they brought their foods with them, like the koláč, traditionally a sweet pastry.  History may never know who first thought to put savory fillings in a kolache, but he or she blessed future generations with this awesome treat.  I was thrilled to find a Czech bakery back in Iowa but they only made traditional sweet kolaches and not their modern, salty Texan descendants.

Harry Singh's- Minneapolis

This is roti, a Caribbean-Indian fusion.  It's sauce, meat, and vegetables in a flatbread, but it's too sloppy to be self-contained so you can't pick it up and eat it like a burrito (not this one, at least).